The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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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.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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 mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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