The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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