Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
NOAM CHOMSKYBut 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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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