But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
NOAM CHOMSKYPerhaps 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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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If 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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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 Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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