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- In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but…
- 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…
- Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
- The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the…
- Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
- If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.
- Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very…
- Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
- 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…
- The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the…
- The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And…
- 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…
- Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
- Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.
- Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence…
- Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It…
- In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the…
- In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a…
- The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which…
- 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.
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