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 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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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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