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.
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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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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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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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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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