If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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It 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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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 leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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