Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
NOAM CHOMSKYNo matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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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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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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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