Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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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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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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