In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
NOAM CHOMSKYWanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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No 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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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