A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
NOAM CHOMSKYAny dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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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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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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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