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"During times of universal deceit, tellling the truth is revolutionary."

George Orwell

 

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"No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

Paul Craig Roberts

 

Howard Zinn THIRD WORLD TRAVELER - SITE MAP

 

"Even open-minded people will often find themselves unable to take seriously the likes of [Noam] Chomsky, [Edward] Herman, [Howard] Zinn and [Susan] George on first encountering their work; it just does not seem possible that we could be so mistaken in what we believe. The individual may assume that these writers must be somehow joking, wildly over-stating the case, paranoid, or have some sort of axe to grind. We may actually become angry with them for telling us these terrible things about our society and insist that this simply 'can't be true'. It takes real effort to keep reading, to resist the reassuring messages of the mass media and be prepared to consider the evidence again."

David Edwards - Burning All Illusions

Aung San Suu Kyi THIRD WORLD TRAVELER - SEARCH PAGE

 

"Some of the character traits exhibited by serial killers or criminals may be observed in many within the political arena... [They] share the traits of psychopaths who are not sensitive to altruistic appeals, such as sympathy for their victims or remorse or guilt over their crimes. They possess the personality traits of lying, narcissism, selfishness, and vanity. These are the people to whom we have entrusted our fate. Is it any wonder that America is failing at home and world-wide?"

Jim Kouri

 

Dick Cheney / Donald Rumsfeld / Zbigniew Brzezinski ********************************** Henry Kissinger / David Rockefeller / George H W Bush

HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS

 


"Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury."

William Blum

 

The Thinker by Rodin QUOTATIONS TO MAKE US THINK

a searchable database of quotations - excerpted from hundreds of books and thousands of articles - challenging conventional wisdom

 

"Any president engaged in lying and empire-building must have some of the traits of a psychopath ... To murder innocent people in order to aggrandize the American Empire would be extremely difficult if not impossible for someone who feels empathy, remorse and guilt and who is incapable of lying. It might even be suggested that having at least some psychopathic traits is a qualification for the job."

David Model, "Lying for Empire"

 

John Perkins INTERNET NEWS & INFORMATION

 

"Citizens have never had an opportunity to express their dissent when the country goes to war. One of the reasons is that the media have always gone along with administration policy in preparing for and going to war."

Howard Zinn

Jean-Bertrand Aristide HAITI PAGE

DOCUMENTARIES, VIDEOS, & PHOTOS PAGE

"War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder."

Alexander Berkm

Amy Goodman MEDIA - MAIN PAGE

BOOK EXCERPTS - SORTED ALPHABETICALLY BOOK EXCERPTS - SORTED BY SUBJECT

Internet News and Information page

Independent Press & Publishers pagePropaganda page Public relations watch

Project Censored pageMedia Control pageBroadcast Media watch

 

"The question is not how to get good people to rule; the question is how to stop the powerful from doing as much damage as they can to us."

Karl Popper


Media pageMedia watchMedia Reform

Print Media pageGlobal Media pageMedia & New World Order page

Magazines pageProgressive Media Links

Think Tank watchFreedom of Information Act - Help Center

 

"People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations."

Zbigniew Brzezinski

AUTHORS' PAGE

Norman Solomon /Naomi Wolf / Paul Craig Roberts / Arundhati Roy /John Pilger / Naomi Klein / Robert McChesney / Chalmers Johnson

 

"The theories offered by economists rationalize the self-interest of big business and the wealthy. Such theories claim to benefit society and the public's well-being. But they do just the opposite: they make the great mass of people poorer while making the rich fabulously richer."

economist Ravi Batra

 

CORPORATE MEDIA'S THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

 

"CEOs of most of the world's largest corporations daily make decisions that destroy the lives of many other human beings. Only about 1 to 3 percent of us are sociopaths - people who don't have normal human feelings and can easily go to sleep at night after having done horrific things. And of that 1 percent of sociopaths, there's probably only a fraction of a percent with a college education. And of that tiny fraction, there's an even tinier fraction that understands how business works, particularly within any specific industry. Thus there is such a shortage of people who can run modern monopolistic, destructive corporations that stockholders have to pay millions to get them to work. And being sociopaths, they gladly take the money without any thought to its social consequences."

Thom Hartmann

Michael Parenti U.S. FOREIGN POLICY - MAIN PAGE

 

Video: Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country!

 

"The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. And it's the responsible men who have to make decisions and to protect society from the trampling and rage of the bewildered herd. Now since it's a democracy they - the herd, that is - are permitted occasionally to lend their weight to one or another member of the responsible class. That's called an election."

Noam Chomsky


September 11, 2001, NYCConspiracy Theories or 'Real' World Order?

One World Governmnt pageGlobal Secrets & LiesFriendly dictators page

Pentagon watchDictators pageForeign policy watch

Middle East watchIsrael watchIraq pageAfghanistan page

 

"There is nothing puzzling about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope."

Walter Karp

Africa watchCentral Africa page Congo watchEast Africa page

North Africa pageSouthern Africa pageWest Africa pageLatin America watch

Caribbean watchHaiti pageColombia page Cuba pageCentral America watch

 

"Most Americans have no idea that what we are fed by the news media is nothing more than a portrayal of what powerful corporations want us to believe, that what happens to pass as education is as often as not mere propaganda, that what we learn in church may have very little or nothing to do with the truth, that what our parents teach us may be nothing more than an accumulation of their own personal biases, no doubt a rather subtle modification of what they were taught by their parents. And through such a process, governments and nations around the world wield control as to what their citizens, believe, value, and do."

Doug Soderstrom

Venezuela pageSouth America watchMexico watch Ecuador watchBolivia watch

Canada pageEurope watchYugoslavia pageRussia watchPacific watchIslands watch

Central Asia watchAsia watchSoutheast Asia pageChina watchSouth Asia page Burma watchNepal page

 

"What the press do is they tell you lies, lies they already know you want to hear. The press can figure out what its readers or viewers believe, and make a hell of a living pandering to their egos and telling them that they're smart. They lie and tell the audience they are right, and they never have to change your mind about anything. And the audience rewards them, lauding them and paying them money to keep hearing those sweet, self-serving lies."

Allan Uthman

International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Landmine Monitor Report - 2008

School of the Americas watchTorture watchAmerican Empire pageNATO page

Landmine watchMilitarization of Space pageUnited States & Third World page

War on Drugs pageCoup d'etat pageSubverting Democracy page War and Peace page

 

"The New York Times is the house organ of the Establishment. It is committed, both editorially and in its presentation of the news, to the interests of an Establishment: continuity, security and legitimacy. Therefore they generally support business and finance, the American version of empire, the government and the president, until, and unless, some excess is so egregious that it poses a threat to continuity, security or legitimacy."

Larry Beinhart

Demanding Democracy pageWeapons pageForeign Policy Institutions pageAssassinations page

International War Crimes pageTerrorism watchWar on Terrorism page

War Profiteering pageMilitary-Industrial Complex pageReducing U.S. Military Budget page

Toward an Ethical Foreign Policy

 

"The main [media] bias is in favor of the thieves who stole our country and economy, and own the mainstream media companies. The omnipresent mainstream media is the greatest weapon of oppression humanity has ever known."

David DeGraw

MILITARIZATION OF AMERICA

 

"Depression was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence... The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as rulers of us all."

Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, 1932

 

FRIENDLY DICTATORS

Augusto Pinochet - Chile / "Papa Doc" Duvalier - Haiti / Efrain Rios Montt - Guatemala / Park Chung-hee - South Korea / King Fahd - Saudi Arabia

P W Botha - South Africa / Sani Abacha - Nigeria / Rafael Trujillos - Dominican Republic / General Suharto - Indonesia / Fulgencio Batista - Cuba

Shah Pahlevi - Iran / Mobuto Sese Seko - Zaire / Ferdinand Marcos - Philippines / Anastasio Somoza - Nicaragua

King Hassan II - Morocco / Pol Pot - Cambodia / Hosni Mubarak - Egypt / Saddam Hussein - Iraq

 

"I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for Capitalism... The general public shoulders the bill. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones, Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations."

Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, 1935

Henry Kissinger INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS - MAIN PAGE

The Trials of Henry Kissinger - video

International Criminal Court pageInternational Law pageLandmines page

Henry Kissinger pageTruth Commissions page

Bush Gang pageGeorge W. Bush pageThe Carlyle Group

 

"Since the anticommunism hysteria in the years following the Second World War, a bipartisan consensus has existed on foreign policy. Meaningful political discourse has been almost absent about foreign policy issues. So many foreign policy decisions have been placed beyond public scrutiny, that almost all of what passes as official information about foreign policy is manufactured by government agencies for its propaganda effect."

Daniel Hellinger and Dennis R. Judd Brooks - The Democratic Facade


Human Rights watch pageGenocide watch

Ronald Reagan pageCrime and Punishment pageAriel Sharon page

The Crimes of Augusto Pinochet pageSchool of the Americas page

 

"Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds."

Randall Robinson

Conspiracy Theories or 'Real' World Order?

"There is a 'Committee of 300', men whose identity is known only to each other, who rule the world."

German Socialist leader Walter Rathenau, 1922

Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice

 

"The Bilderberg group is an organization of political leaders and international financiers that meets secretly every spring to make global policy. There are about 110 regulars - Rockefellers, Rothschilds, bankers, heads of international corporations and high government officials from Europe and North America. Each year, a few new people are invited and, if found useful, they return to future meetings. If not, they are discarded. Decisions reached at these secret meetings affect every American and much of the world."

Jim Tucker's Bilderberg Diary


David Rockefeller NEW WORLD ORDER

 

"Since the late 1940s, the United States has been deliberately engaged in an imperial project, and anyone who would hold the office of the presidency has to be willing to serve that end. All presidents have to promote the national security state, both domestically and in American foreign policy, if they wish to attain and hold on to power."

Morris Berman

INDEPENDENT MEDIA

I.F. Stone / George Seldes / George Orwell

 


"Ever since the days of Henry Ford, the Economic Elite have needed a thriving US middle class to increase growth and profits, but now, in the global economy, they view the US middle class as obsolete. They increasingly look globally for profits and they would rather pay cheap labor in countries like China and India."

David DeGraw

Ray McGovern COVERT ACTIVITIES - MAIN PAGE

CIA watchFBI watchNational Security Agency (NSA) watchGlobal Secrets & Lies page

National Endowment for Democracy (NED) pageThe Secret Wars of the CIA - John Stockwell

CIAs Greatest Hits pageTerrorism watch

U.S. Terrorism Timeline - 1692 (Salem Witch Trials) to 2005 (U.S. Global Mercenaries)

 

"The greatest myth concerning American foreign policies is the deeply-held belief that no matter what the United States does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the American government means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may even on the odd occasion cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable. Of that Americans are certain. They genuinely wonder why the rest of the world can't see how kind and generous and self-sacrificing America has been."

William Blum

 

Noam Chomsky PROGRESSIVE WEBSITES

 

"American policymakers, setting themselves up as guardians of the world system, are more inclined than ever to simply disregard international laws and conventions if they get in the way of unrivaled military supremacy. Every instance of U.S. armed intervention during the 1980s and 1990s represents a flagrant violation of regional treaties and laws, not to mention the UN Charter itself, which explicitly prohibits military attacks against sovereign nations - for example, Grenada, Nicaragua, Haiti, Panama, Serbia, and Iraq. In any event, the U.S. has consistently shown its contempt for international bodies, agreements, and procedures that might conflict with its hegemonic aspirations."

Carl Boggs

TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS - MAIN PAGE

NAFTA, FTAA, CAFTA pageMultilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI) page

World Trade Organization (WTO) pageInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank page

Structural Adjustment pageOil watchWater pageDiamonds page

 

"Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for. "

Brian Reade, columnist for London Mirror newspaper

 

Transnational corporations & Third World pageNew Global Economy pageCorporate watch

Controlling Corporations pageGlobalization watchCorporate Welfare page

 

"The media are a pitiful lot. They don't give us any history, they don't give us any analysis, they don't tell us anything. They don't raise the most basic questions: Who has the most weapons of mass destruction in the world by far? Who has used weapons of mass destruction more than any other nation? Who has killed more people in this world with weapons of mass destruction than any other nation? The answer: the United States."

Howard Zinn

 

Martin Luther King. Jr. QUOTATIONS PAGE

 

"We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth."

Sydney Schanberg

Nelson Mandela DEMOCRACY & SOCIETY - MAIN PAGE

Democracy in America pageFascism watchDissent pagePatriotism pagePolitical Pathocracy page

Labor pageClass War watchRuling Elites pageDemocracy watchSociety watchNeoconservatives page

Civil Liberties watchMilitarization of America pageDemanding Democracy pageSocialism watch

 

"[I] never saw a foreign intervention that the [New York] Times did not support, never saw a fare increase or a rent increase or a utility rate increase that it did not endorse, never saw it take the side of labor in a strike or lockout, or advocate a raise for underpaid workers. And don't let me get started on universal health care and Social Security. So why do people think the Times is liberal?"

veteran New York Times reporter John Hess

 

Banks watchFederal Reserve pageWall Street pageEconomics watchHistory watchThink Tank watch

Nationalism pageHealth watchReligion pageReforming the Electoral Process pageWater pageFood watchEducation watch

Real Democracy pageNational Security pageAssassinations pageNeoliberal Economics pageEnvironment watch

 

"If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation."

Eugene Debs

 

Politics watchPolitical Repression pageProgressive Politics watchPoliticians' page

Political Crimes and Criminals pagePolitical Corruption pagePolitical Reform page

American Fundamentalism pageRe-ordering America's Priorities

Heroes pageZeroes pageEnergy watchYouth & Children watchWomen watch

Socialism watchPolice State watchMilitary-Industrial Complex page "Thirdworldization" of America

 

"The powers of financial capitalism had [a] far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences."

Dr. Carroll Quigley, "Tragedy and Hope", 1966

 

[Henry Ford / Pat Robertson, / Joseph McCarthy / James Dobson / William Randolph Hearst / George W Bush / Dick Cheney]



FASCISM - AMERICAN-STYLE

 

The 14 characteristics of Fascism

 

"The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters."

Paul Craig Roberts

Vandana Shiva THIRD WORLD - DEFINITION & DESCRIPTION

 

"Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East."

F. William Engdahl

Cesar Chavez HUMAN RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY DOCUMENTS

"Americans are too broadly underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world . Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations. Politicians and the media have conspired to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At heart, politicians don't believe that Americans can handle complex truths, and the news media, especially television news, basically agrees."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent

 

Jean-Bertrand Aristide HAITI PAGE

"When the full and true story of Jean-Bertrand Aristide is finally told, it will portray a noble and humble man who gave of himself honorably to serve the interests of all the people of Haiti. His only failure was his inability to overcome the brutal and corrupt power of the U.S. and its determination to see him fail. "

Stephen Lendman

CONGO PAGE

"Africa is extremely rich in many resources, from agriculture to oil, minerals, and a huge variety of other resources used all around the world. If African nations were able to develop their own economies, use their own resources, and create their own industries and businesses, they could become self-sufficient at first, and then may become a force of great competition for the established industries and elites around the world. After all, Europe does not have much to offer in terms of resources, as the continent's wealth has largely come from plundering the resources of regions like Africa, and in becoming captains of monetary manipulation. A revitalized, vibrant, economically independent and successful Africa could spell the end of Western financial dominance. "

Andrew Gavin Marshall

Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador HUMAN RIGHTS - MAIN PAGE

 

"Every time weaker nations have attempted to reallocate their resources and undertake land reform to feed starving populations, powerful interests emanating from the rich world and its multilateral bodies have thwarted their efforts."

Susan George

Human Rights Documents pagePrison watch

Life & death in Third World pageHeroes pageZeroes pageHuman rights watch

Genocide watchJustice watchReforming the System page

United Nations pageThird World in United States pageWorld Federalism page

 

"Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own."

William Greider

 

THIRDWORLDIZATION OF AMERICA

"The problem is not that a computer network [Internet] offers an alternative to the information aristocracy. The true crisis is that neither the news media nor the government has enough credibility to be accepted as either truthful or impartial on their own."

military writer William M. Arkin

 

"WHY DO THEY HATE US ?"

[Ariel Sharon - Israel / King Fahd - Saudi Arabia / Shah Pahlevi - Iran / Saddam Hussain - Iraq]

 

"The United States became the target of terrorists on 9/11 not because of the country's freedom and democracy, but because U.S. Middle East policy has had nothing to do with freedom and democracy."

Stephen Zunes

 

Ralph Nader WHAT YOU CAN DO - MAIN PAGE

"The need for major states as enemies stems partly from the fact that only the perceived presence of enemy states can justify military spending at the level which the industries concerned have come to demand."

David Edwards - Burning All Illusions

 

What Can I Do?

Coalition to Ban Cluster Bombs International Campaign to Ban Landmines
AFESIP Cambodia - combating sex slavery Prajwala - fighting sex trafficking in India
Nepalese Youth Opportunity FoundationGoodWeave - child-labor-free rugs from third world
Partners in Health - health care in Haiti & third worldHaitian Relief Organization

Global Response - environmental and education network Kiva - loans that change lives in third world
Operation Smile - cleft repair in third worldSmile Train - cleft repair in third world
Unitarian Universalists - stop tortureSave the Congo

Global Witness - end natural resource corruptionOxfam America
Amnesty International Doctors Without Borders
International Rescue Committee
U.S. Campaign for Burma

 

"All societies we know of are governed by the selfish interests of the ruling class or classes."

Plato

Become informed - authors page
Become informed - excerpted books sorted alphabetically
Become informed - excerpted books sorted by subject
Boycotts pageSolidarity pageProgressive websitesNumbers to know

TRAVEL WEATHER

"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them."

Michael Parenti

TRAVEL HEALTH

"States, most especially the large hegemonic ones, such as the United States and Great Britain, are controlled by the international central banking system, working through secret agreements at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and operating through national central banks (such as the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve)... The same international banking cartel that controls the United States today previously controlled Great Britain and held it up as the international hegemon. When the British order faded, and was replaced by the United States, the US ran the global economy. However, the same interests are served. States will be used and discarded at will by the international banking cartel; they are simply tools."

Andrew Gavin Marshall

TRAVEL LINKS

"The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) took control of the ideological foundations of the American empire, encompassing the corporate, banking, political, foreign policy, military, media, and academic elite of the nation into a generally cohesive overall world view. By altering one's ideology to that of promoting such an internationalist agenda, the big money that was behind it would ensure one's rise through government, industry, academia and media. There are divisions within the elite, predicated on the basis of how to use American imperial power, where to use it, on what basis to justify it, and other various methodological differences. The divide amongst elites was never on the questions of: should we use American imperial power, why has America become an Empire, or should there even be an empire? If one takes such considerations to heart and questions these concepts, be it within the foreign policy establishment, intelligence, military, academia, finance, corporate world, or media; chances are, such a person is not a member of the CFR."

Andrew Gavin Marshall

TRAVEL INFORMATION

"So important did military spending and the military-industrial sector become during World War II and the Cold War that they have become fundamental to the U.S. economy, U.S. economic growth and above all U.S. technological development. Despite its often almost incredible wastefulness and corruption, this military spending has also been in some ways a kind of unacknowledged but rather successful state industrial development strategy in a country whose free market ideology meant that it could not formally adopt or admit to such a strategy."

David Edwards - Burning All Illusions

THIRD WORLD TRAVEL

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"All conspiracies are not theories".

from the TV series 'Rubicon'

 

"Patriotism has got to be more than hanging out a flag and then sitting on your ass watching jets bomb Afghanistan."

Ruth Coniff

 

"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."

neoconservative Michael Ledeen

 

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