On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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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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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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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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