There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKYSome may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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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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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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 we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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