The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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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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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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