History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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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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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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