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" Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal. "

" 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. "

" Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed. "

" Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. "

" Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it. "

" There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified. "

" In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon! "

" I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR. "

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

" 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. "

" Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue. "

Noam Chomsky

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" If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it. "

" There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense. "

" The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. "

" 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. "

" The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies. "

" In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States. "

" When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said. "

" What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane. "

" 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. "

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

" The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings. "

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" 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. "