The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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 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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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