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" The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. "

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" If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. "

" Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it. "

" NATO's essentially run by the United States. "

" Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. "

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

" I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult. "

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

" In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries. "

" There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs. "

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

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" Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich. "

" There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.' "

" 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. "

" I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state. "

" Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since. "

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

" After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators. "

" There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments. "

" The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests. "

" Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens. "

" When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future. "

" The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT. "

" The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers. "

" In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. "

" The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously. "

" In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends. "

" As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use. "

" It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos. "

" I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned. "