By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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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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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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 internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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