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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. "
Noam Chomsky
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" Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States. "
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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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" I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system. "
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" The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come down to two fundamental issues: 'What are the accepted and applicable 'rules of world order,' and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?' "
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" Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. "
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" It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons. "
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" The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world. "
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" Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.? "
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" State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. "
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" In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs. "
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" The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. "
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Government
Need
" It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise. "
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Easy
Wise
" As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. "
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" In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back. "
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" Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. "
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" Governments don't control people like they used to. "
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" The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years. "
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" Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike. "
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" I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned. "
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" It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos. "
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" 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.' "
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" In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. "
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World
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