Occupation: Linguist Birth: December 7, 1928
The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to ….
If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are op….
Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew Brze….
What can you do to mitigate the likelihood that Iran will develop nuclear weapons? There's a very simple method: move towards establishing a nuclear-….
Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation an….
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of ….
The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was..
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that..
American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to….
Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretat….
Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood..
Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation with India)..
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and ac….
We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the center of world oil production wer….
If you want information about sports, I can tell you things from the 1940's, and the couple years that my grandson was kind of a jock, but nothing in….
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years, the danger was to eve….
Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't mean individuals with flesh and blood lik….
I don't even know if I ever knew - some sweatshop in Baltimore. I knew with my other relatives - some of the women were in the International Ladies' ….
For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Leb….
That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody kno….
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect..