That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
NOAM CHOMSKYInternational affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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