Past Quotes of the Week:
The United States badly need a change of course, and 2011 will be a good opportunity to see if the American people will take up the challenge and march to the barricades. If they do not, there is evil in the air and we have a long and dreary future ahead of us.
Philip Giraldi for Anti-War Com
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of statesmanship.”(President Theodore Roosevelt)
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” -
Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
“Suggesting that WikiLeaks and their source has blood on their hands is akin to saying that a TV station reporting on a fire is guilty of arson, or a reporter filing a story about a rape is accessory to future rape. At the end of a horror movie, when a light is cast in a dark basement revealing the cave of the mass murderer, one does not prosecute the light.”
Davis Fleetwood
“Nine-eleven has done more to change the world’s political landscape than any other event since World War II. And 9/11 is far from over: it triggered what Western leaders have declared an ‘endless’ or ‘generational’ war on terror. Even President Obama stated in March 2009 that the Afghan-Pakistan border region has become the most dangerous place in the world for the American people.[1]. Given the enormous international expense, suffering, and death that continue to hemorrhage from the wound of 9/11, it is vital that librarians and media professionals acquire the knowledge and ethical support to perform their part in addressing the rising tide of doubt.”
Foreign Policy Journal
We are being taught a chilling lesson: That the moral failing is not the invasion and occupation of a nation, or the routine abuse of its citizens, but its revelation to the world. Loyalty, they tell us, is silence. Silence is not loyalty. Silence is complicity. Silence is the aid that allows any crime to go unrecognized. Silence is the great enabler of war and the death of freedom. The very oxygen of a democracy is discourse and dissent.”
Justin Kauker, former Navy hospital corpsman and anti-war activist
“We will never be able to recover from the tremendous blow which struck this Nation on 9/11 if we do not unfold the truth for the American People.”
Congressman Dennis Kucinich 09/11/10
““A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor — he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation — he works secretly and unknown to undermine the pillars of a city — he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 42 B.C.
“The bigger crisis of our time is, thus, Power’s need to create constant crises, generated first and foremost by the commercial media, all competing for our dwindling hours of free time and attention span, and exacerbated by every kind of interest group, advertiser, opportunist, politician, ‘activist,’ aspiring tyrant or con artist who know that a person who perceives himself or his community or his world in crisis can be sold all kinds of products and ideologies to serve the salesman. When we ‘lose our heads’ we are easy prey for the predators.”
Al Giordano, NarcoNews
“During the Cold War and continuing to this day, the American public is often the last to know information that is common knowledge among intelligence agencies of adversarial nations. Excessive government secrecy is a serious and underrated problem in a republic and has been exacerbated by the spike in clandestine government actions in the Bush-Obama war on terror.”
Ivan Eland for Euroasia News
‘“These are times when the corporatocracy is attempting to consolidate its power. It is up to each and every one of us to stand firm against those attempts. A line is being drawn in the sand in places like Venezuela and Iran. By the attack on Wikileaks. And the crimes of BP. Please take my hand and step across that line with me. United we will stop the U.S. from marching further to the drum of corporatocracy imperialism.”
John Perkins, author of “Confessions of an Economic Hitman“
For the first time in US presidential history — it has not happened before — a president has taken the entire defense department bureaucracy, and the Secretary of State for Defense, from a previous discredited administration. We have basically Robert Gates and the same generals running American foreign policy with a lot of help from people of like mind.’
John Pilger–from interview with Russia Today
“Why do people need more information than the government gives them? Think: Watergate, Vietnam, the Gulf of Tonkin, Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch, Agent Orange, My Lai, Bloody Sunday, and many other instances of apparent cover up by officials with political careers on the line.”
Journalist Robert Weller
“(N)ational security secrets, based on misinformation, disinformation or flat out lies, have gotten millions of people killed. How many of those lives might have been saved if a few those secrets had been forced to withstand the glare of daylight.”
Stephen Pizzo: Secrets Kill Too
“You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else’s life. They’re plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congresses. That’s their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. These noble men. ….but, what do the dead say?”
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumble, 1939
(1994 printing Carol Publishing Group.)
‘(T)his whole war is occuring [sic] in Mexico … because of the social fabric, the break down in opportunity for the entire country, 95 per cent of the wealth is owned by five per cent of the people in Mexico, it just doesn’t trickle down anywhere else.‘
Walter McKay, police trainer
“This was not a great day for democracy in Toronto. I saw things I’d never seen before. I saw things that frankly should not have happened. And people will come to their own conclusions about what they believe the state of democracy to be in Toronto and in Canada as a result of what happened. It was a sad bloody day, I’ll tell you that much.”
Steve Paikin veteran Canadian journalist,on G20 police brutality
“Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.”
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address Jan. 20, 1961
“There is only one line of division—only one. It’s not a line of division between Muslims and Jews. It’s not a line of division between Arabs and Jews. It is a line of division between those who stand for the equality of all, and those who stand for the supremacy of some.”
Gaza Flotilla Solidarity Speech 05/31/10
by Kareem Dennis aka Lowkey
“…for the first time in all of human history, mankind is politically awakened. That’s a total new reality…total new reality. It has not been so for most of human history until the last 100 years.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski, recent CFR speech Montreal Canada
Dear sisters, find the right words for your sons, husbands and brothers. In the current situation, it is unacceptable to indulge in feelings of revenge and anger.
Kyrgyzstan Interim President Roza Otunbayeva
“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Krodha Vakishwari
We have just one demand: transparency. We have just one expectation: the truth.”
Christophe Guillot-Noel, association for Air France victims’ families
“You can either be transparent, or transparency will be brought to you.”
Daniel Schmitt, a WikiLeaks’ director
05/17/10
”In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility. I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address Jan. 20, 1961.”
”You and your colleagues have helped to build and manage a machinery that has committed treason and genocide on a breathtaking scale. The history of Goldman Sachs over the last two decades is living proof that it is possible to kill with a financial system and a pen.”
Catherine Austin Fitts:
E-mail to a Member of the Research Team at Goldman Sachs
“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”
James Baldwin
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.”
Speech to Illinois legislature, Jan. 1837.
[Vol. 1, p. 24 Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Nicolay and Hay, 1905).
“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.”
George W. Bush
interview for Haaretz March 2008
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice."
Mahatma Gandhi.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Maurice Freehill
"Must I always rush in a frenzy to explain things in the light of reason? What has my reason brought me but sorrow."
Lucanus in Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell.
‘The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.’
Agnes Baker Pilgrim
'Seeing what's at the end of one's nose requires constant effort'.
George Orwell
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.”
Elvis Presley
“And we have watched as scientific integrity has been undermined and scientific research politicized in an effort to advance predetermined ideological agendas. “
Barak Obama National Academy of Sciences 04/17/09
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
Samuel Johnson
"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."
Henry David Thoreau
“There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture, and it will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. This is the revolution of the new generation.”
Charles A. Reich
"The presses in the necessary employment of the Government should never be used 'to clear the guilty or to varnish crime.' A decent and manly examination of the acts of the Government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged."
From the Inaugural Address of President William Henry Harrison
01/23/10
“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
Anais Nin
“We say we are in Mesopotamia to develop it for the benefit of the world. … How far will the killing of ten thousand villagers and townspeople this summer hinder the production of wheat, cotton, and oil? How long will we permit millions of pounds, thousands of Imperial troops, and tens of thousands of Arabs to be sacrificed on behalf of colonial administration which can benefit nobody but its administrators?”
T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”)
“9/11 represents both a roadblock and a short-cut to peace and democracy for the coming generations. If we cannot deal with that, we cannot deal with the other important issues either. The coming investigation of 9/11 will serve as a litmus test for the free press and the juidicial [sic] system.”
Niels H. Harrit
01/03/10
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
Albert Einstein
“Would you like to know what I find beautiful about your species? You are your best when things are at their worst.”
Starman
“Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.”
Lord Acton
“And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all.”
Kahlil Gibran
“We are engaged in a public relations war against a political elite who have used the events of 9/11 to hijack a country from her people and placed the interests of the rich and the powerful above justice and truth.”
NYCAN (The Turning Point)
“To face change that is larger than we are, we need to begin by acknowledging our fragility and also our value, and look within ourselves for the strength we will need to survive.”
Whitley Strieber
“I think Israel needs an adult who will save it from its own addiction to the occupation.”
Gideon Levy on Israel’s addiction
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
HENRY FORD
[Wiki Monetary Reform Act]
“Change begins within us. We can swing to the left, we can swing back to the right but until we can get beyond the savage mentality of ‘this or that’ there is only pain.”
Scott K Smith
Past Videos of the month:
Statement on un-released Eisenhower Alien brief
Henry McElroy, Jr. retiring, former State Rep. from NH
March 2010
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February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
Amy Goodman’s Timeless Media Critique
Delivered in 2003, but even more relevant in 2009: A blistering critique of the mainstream media’s coverage of US interventions around the world in in this talk entitled “Fomenting Democracy: Independent Media in a Time of War and Elections.”
November 2009
WEBSITE: THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W BUSH FOR MURDER.
Past Photos of the month
December 2010
November 2010
Yes, Mr. Brzezinski, The world IS watching!
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
The plane hits the ground with the pilot still in view
July 2010
Reprise
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
