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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

~Noam Chomsky

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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

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Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

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The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

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If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

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The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.

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Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice.

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By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

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The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.

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The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: December 7th, 1928

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