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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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