Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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John 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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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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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A 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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