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By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.
A lot of countries break (or go against) the international law.
No use in waiting, we can all work hard to bring about changes.
Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.
One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.
It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.
I don't entirely agree with the slogan "speaking truth to power."
The U.S. is different from Europe and other industrial countries.
There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
It's not in doubt that tobacco is far more lethal than hard drugs.
You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.
The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.
Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.
I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.
The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.
The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.
Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky
Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.
Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.
Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.
Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.
The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.
Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.
In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.
Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.
If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.
The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years.
The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world.
It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.
By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.