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" In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands. "

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" Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. "

" There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. "

" I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings. "

" I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something? "

" 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. "

" If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times. "

" When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. "

" I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. "

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" U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness. "

" Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. "

" 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. "

" To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. "

" In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. "

" Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber. "

" When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.' "

" Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. "

" Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war. "

" In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors. "

" Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege. "

" The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course. "

" Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice. "

" The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery. "

" Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles. "

" If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States. "

" American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster. "

" The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. "

" The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television. "

" When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more. "

" Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. "

" I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China. "