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.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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