If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKYStates are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Some 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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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