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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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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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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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