If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
NOAM CHOMSKYConcentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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