History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
NOAM CHOMSKYI do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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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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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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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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 godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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