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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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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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