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" Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems. "
Noam Chomsky
Nuclear Weapons
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" Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution. "
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" 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. "
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" The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up. "
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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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" Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. "
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" When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. "
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" It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association. "
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" Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good. "
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" In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. "
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