I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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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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