The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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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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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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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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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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