Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Fidel 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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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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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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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