In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
NOAM CHOMSKYChanges and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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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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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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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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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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If 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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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