There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
NOAM CHOMSKYMarkets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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