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" The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world. "
Noam Chomsky
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" With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. "
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" In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region. "
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" People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. "
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" Government actually grew during the Reagan years. "
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" I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times. "
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" One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses. "
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" If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. "
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Than
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" There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure. "
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Other
Because
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" In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out. "
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" By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside. "
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