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Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take resp...more

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Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amoun...more

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My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger c...more

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The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of hi...more

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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like '...more

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Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.