Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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