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The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
A bombing was planned [in Syria], which would probably make the situation worse, but would at least establish US credibility.
It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war.
I'm into eating as little as possible, paying as little attention as possible. I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.
Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years.
The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.
Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
If the US were to attack North Korea, they'd certainly destroy North Korea, but South Korea would be pretty well wiped out too.
Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace?
Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.
I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar years.
One can neither agree nor disagree with a terminological proposal, as long as it is clear that it is just that: terminological.
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.
Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
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The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed.
You have to rely on yourself and your associates - gifts don't come from above; you're going to win them, or you won't have them.
I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.
There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.
The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must and can be done.
Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.
Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left.
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.
The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them
The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.
Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it's growth in a sense.
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane.
The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.
I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.
I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.
Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.
The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.