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Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…
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In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.…
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No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.
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The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw…
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The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove…
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War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video…
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The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
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There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.
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We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,…
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How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
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This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state…
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