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

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" In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands. "

" There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. "

" Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear. "

" Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I'm sure it's illegal. It's also an effort to undermine free speech. "

" All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. "

" Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. "

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

" I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression. "

" State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. "

" 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. "

" In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America. "

" Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression. "

" As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime. "

" There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines. "

" The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern. "

" There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. "

" If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa. "

" Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. "

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

" In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. "

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

" The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis. "

" You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India. "

" 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. "

" The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well. "

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

" The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it. "

" 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. "

" The Internet has compromised the quality of debate. "