The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
From Noam Chomsky
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.
Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.
The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come down to two fundamental issues: 'What are the accepted and applicable 'rules of world order,' and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?'
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.
One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses.
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.
The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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