Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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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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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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