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" In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. "

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" As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties. "

" In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states. "

" Sometimes I lose my temper. "

" Israel is a pretty crazy state. "

" The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. "

" Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. "

" In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce. "

" China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them. "

" 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 country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free. "

" You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them. "

" France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,' independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course. "

" Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. "

" As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. "

" The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before. "

" Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak. "

" It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise. "

" When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land. "

" By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf. "

" Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place. "

" Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. "

" In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs. "

" In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat. "

" Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower. "

" As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression. "

" There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication. "

" In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.' "

" Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. "

" My family was mostly unemployed working class. "

" In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America. "