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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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