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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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