In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
NOAM CHOMSKYRational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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