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.
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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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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 drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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