The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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 the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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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