States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn 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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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 more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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