If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
NOAM CHOMSKYDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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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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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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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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