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"Politicians should honestly confront the question: what are the reasons that lead millions of people to leave their homes? And fashion equally honest and humane solutions."
"In the hands of government surveillance programs and law enforcement agencies, there’s simply no way that face recognition software will be not used to harm citizens."
"The Pew study indicates that there is a significant cognitive problem among US people in being able to assess facts from opinions."
While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries."
"The U.S. government is calling on its allies to zero out imports of oil from Iran by November 4, or else face sanctions, and Washington is leaning towards granting no waivers at all. An official from the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that it had plans to follow up on the matter with Turkey, India and China, even as the U.S. is trying not to 'adversely impact' these countries, Bloomberg reports."
"Emotion, not genuine geopolitical insight, drives popular support for inflated defense spending."
"The accession of both India and Pakistan to the SCO is also a stunning repudiation of the United States."
"Many of its current members -- they include China, Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- have poor human rights records themselves."
"The OLC argues that the presidential order, issued without authorization by or consultation with Congress, was nevertheless lawful because the president 'had reasonably determined that the use of force would be in the national interest and that the anticipated hostilities would not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense.'"