Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
NOAM CHOMSKYYou cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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