The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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