States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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