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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe mo...more

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The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The...more

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Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I mean, often what you're meetin...more

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[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the ...more

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Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states ...more

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Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy,...more

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Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

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There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings...more

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I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated Adm. Carrero Blanco. The admiral w...more

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I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-movie opens with a plenary sessio...more

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The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to r...more

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[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citize...more

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I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without ...more

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In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

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Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the peri...more