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Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.
For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.
The evangelicals. . . . If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem.
The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.
The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'
If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.
American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons.
People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.
Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.
Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.
Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation with India).
Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.
Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.
As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.
We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.
Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.
Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.
[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.
If the NAACP were to impose a control of something towards all, then I would staunchly oppose it.
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.
The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.
The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.
The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.
Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place
There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.
What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.
I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments.
The attack on unions has been far more extreme here [in U.S], and it has been much more successful.
The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.
It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge.