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A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible ...more

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Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

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The ritual denunciation of the so-called ‘socialist’ states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.

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The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordi...more

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Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shi...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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Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

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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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I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in...more

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A propaganda model has a certain initial plausibility on guided free-market assumptions that are not particularly controversial. In essence, the priva...more

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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

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Those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be exp...more

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In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economic...more