American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
Noam Chomsky
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I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'
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WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.
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The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.
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The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
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By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.
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The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.
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Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.
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There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
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