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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 shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

~Noam Chomsky

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There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

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The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.

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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

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The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

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What's important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it's very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

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Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

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The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

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The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: December 7th, 1928

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