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" Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to. "

" The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge. "

" Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece. "

" Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that. "

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

" The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate. "

" 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. "

" I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. "

" The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. "

" 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. "

" The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years. "

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

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

" It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. "

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

" It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination. "

" Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. "

" The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. "

" The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. "

" The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity. "

" In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions. "

" 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. "

" In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining. "

" There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived. "

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

" Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. "

" My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence. "

" 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. "

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

" Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. "