In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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