Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
NOAM CHOMSKYInternational affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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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 process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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