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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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