American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
Noam Chomsky
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I don't want followers.
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When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.
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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 for independence.
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States are not moral agents.
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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
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As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.
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I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.
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When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
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Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.
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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
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