The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
NOAM CHOMSKYColorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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