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.
NOAM CHOMSKYWanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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