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" I like Gramsci. He's an important person. "

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" There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - 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. "

" Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. "

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" In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. "

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" Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s. "

" The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up. "

" One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?' "

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

" The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow. "

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" Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.? "

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" In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements. "

" From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing. "