On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven 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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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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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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 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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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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