The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYUnlimited 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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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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