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Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.
I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.
U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.
It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.
The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.
States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power
People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to.
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.
Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.
The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws.
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.
I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.
One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop.
[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right.
For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.
I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.
One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.
Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.
There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing.
Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.
Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.
[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.
The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.
Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.
It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.
We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.
The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.
Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by Europe.
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.
Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.
The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.
In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.
California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.