Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
NOAM CHOMSKYHistory shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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