I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
From Noam Chomsky
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising.
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.
Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.
NATO's essentially run by the United States.
You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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