Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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