If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
NOAM CHOMSKYA tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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 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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