It 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.
NOAM CHOMSKYI would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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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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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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