There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
NOAM CHOMSKYIntellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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