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.
NOAM CHOMSKYFidel 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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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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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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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