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" 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. "
Noam Chomsky
Military
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" U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture. "
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" My family was mostly unemployed working class. "
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" 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. "
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" Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it. "
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" It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise. "
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" September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good. "
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" Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s. "
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" The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. "
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" I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. "
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" Civil disobedience is - it's no fun. "
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Disobedience
Fun
" I like the cold weather. It means you get work done. "
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" A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer. "
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" To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. "
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Lived
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" I don't pay a lot of attention to polls. "
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Lot
Attention
" Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. "
Noam Chomsky
Financial
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Now
" 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. "
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Wealth
Integration
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" The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders. "
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Crime
Violence
" 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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" The money in politics is a cash cow for the media. "
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Cow
Cash
Media
" The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. "
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Interests
" It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. "
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" In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962. "
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Remembering
Started
" Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?' "
Noam Chomsky
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" As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking. "
Noam Chomsky
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Time
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" The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that. "
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Beyond
Own
" In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss. "
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Independence
Discourse
" On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations. "
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Anti-War
Part
" Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent. "
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World
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" In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. "
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