International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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 very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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