It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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