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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

Noam Chomsky

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Argue Like Say Someone
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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Anger Country Dislike Dissatisfaction Hatred Poil Repeat
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.
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Congo Develop Development Horror Involve Murder Story Year
The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Council Far Gone International Law Observe Reagan Revolution Security States Under United Veto
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Dress Nationalism Other Way
International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Affair International Mafia Much Run
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Applied Country Hang However Law Nuremberg President
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Administration Cold Dean Favorite Historian Reagan Regard Scholarship War
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Basically Business Democrat Function One Party Republican
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Believe Desire Expression Freedom People
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Above Change Come Gift Progress Really Struggle
Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Anti Concept Country Idiotic Notion Pute Totalitarian Very
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Card Credit Debt Enormous Especial Large Student Trap
It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
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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Aggression Common Death Develop Frighten Genital People Sense

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

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