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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

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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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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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