If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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But 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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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