American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
Noam Chomsky
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I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
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In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.
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After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
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It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.
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The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.
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It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.
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Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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