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.
NOAM CHOMSKYUnlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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