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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

~Noam Chomsky

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Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

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The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

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By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

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After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.

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You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

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The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

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In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

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The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: December 7th, 1928

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