The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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I 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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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