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" Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. "

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" Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat. "

" It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. "

" Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions. "

" Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. "

" I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility. "

" Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems. "

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" Qatar-based 'Al-Jazeera,' the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having 'emphasized civilian casualties' during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections. "

" The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. "

" I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. "

" A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer. "

" The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations. "

" Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. "

" The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests. "

" Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way. "

" As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking. "

" The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. "

" Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. "

" In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962. "

" Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. "

" It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos. "

" The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. "

" There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. "

" Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. "

" I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science. "

" Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. "

" No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it. "

" In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years. "

" WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor. "

" Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use! "

" The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived. "