The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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 Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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