Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
NOAM CHOMSKYJohn Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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 mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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