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Had Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
- For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite…
- In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent…
- If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
- Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance…
- Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He…
- The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
- Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
- Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
- The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
- When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won…
- 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…
- 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.
- Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized,…
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- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
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