American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
Noam Chomsky
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.
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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 American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.
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The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.
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It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.
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Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.
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When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.
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Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
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The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.
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There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived.
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