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"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
"The men the American
people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the
men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them
the truth."
H. L. Mencken
Ray McGovern / Russell Tice /
Thomas Drake / Sibel Edmonds / Bradley Manning / Edward Snowdon
Coleen Rowley / Karen Kwiatkowski
/ Wendell Potter / Jesselyn Radack / Gary Webb / Mark Klein
"Our real heroes are those
who have tried to tell us the truth."
Robert Fearn in his book "Amoral
America"
"We Americans are the
ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this
time the government is telling us the truth."
Sydney Schanberg
"The master planners devised
the strategy of a merger - a Great Merger - among nations.
But before such a merger can be consummated, and the United States
becomes just another province in a New World Order, there must
at least be the semblance of parity among the senior partners
in the deal. How does one make the nations of the world more nearly
equal? The Insiders determined that a two-prong approach was needed;
use American money and know-how to build up your competitors,
while at the same time use every devious strategy you can devise
to weaken and impoverish this country. The goal is not to bankrupt
the United States. Rather, it is to reduce our productive might,
and therefore our standard of living, to the meager subsistence
level of the socialized nations of the world.
The plan is not to bring the standard of living in less developed
countries up to our level, but to bring ours down to meet theirs
coming up... It is your standard of living which must be sacrificed
on the altar of the New World Order."
Gary Allen in his book "The
Rockefeller File"
"During the
past two centuries when the peoples of the world were gradually
winning their political freedom from the dynastic monarchies,
the major banking families of Europe and America were actually
reversing the trend by setting up new dynasties of political control
through the formation of international financial combines. These
banking dynasties had learned that all governments must have sources
of revenue from which to borrow in times of emergency. They had
also learned that by providing such funds from their own private
resources, they could make both kings and democratic leaders tremendously
subservient to their will."
Carroll Quigley in his
book "Tragedy and Hope"
"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
"There is a transnational
ruling class, a "Superclass", that agrees on establishing
a world government. The middle class is targeted for elimination,
because most of the world has no middle class, and to fully integrate
and internationalize a middle class, would require industrialization
and development in Africa, and certain places in Asia and Latin
America. The goal of the Superclass is not to lose their wealth
and power to a transnational middle class, but rather to extinguish
the notion of a middle class, and transnationalize a lower, uneducated,
labor oriented class, through which they will secure ultimate
wealth and power.
The global economic crisis serves these ends, as whatever remaining
wealth the middle class holds is in the process of being eliminated,
and as the crisis progresses, the middle classes of the world
will suffer, while a great percentage of lower classes of the
world, poverty-stricken even prior to the crisis, will suffer
the greatest, most probably leading to a massive reduction in
population levels, particularly in the "underdeveloped"
or "Third World" states."
Andrew Gavin Marshall
BREAKING THROUGH THE MATRIX OF
THE CORPORATE MEDIA TO REVEAL THE WORLD AS IT REALLY IS
"Today Americans would
be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order;
tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they
were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real
or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then
that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to
deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is
the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights
will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well
being granted to them by their world government."
Henry Kissinger speaking at the
annual Bilderberger meeting, May 21, 1992
"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
WHO RULES THE WORLD
?
"Not all conspiracies
are theories."
"People, governments and
economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational
banks and corporations."
Zbigniew Brzezinski
"Some believe we are part
of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United
States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists"
and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more
integrated global political and economic structure - one world,
if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud
of it."
David Rockefeller in his "Memoirs"
The Pope / Evelyn De Rothschild
/ Queen Elizabeth II / David Rockefeller
"We are ruled, though
it may be difficult to imagine, by a small dynastic power structure,
largely consisting of powerful banking families, such as the Rothschilds,
Rockefellers, and others. They emerged in controlling the financial
system, extended their influence over the political system, the
educational system, and, through the major foundations, have become
the dominant social powers of our world, creating think tanks
and other institutions which shape and change the course of society
and modern human history."
Andrew Gavin Marshall
"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
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"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.
The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements
[BIS] in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled
by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations
... Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its
ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges,
to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and
to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards
in the business world."
Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy
and Hope"
"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
PSYCHOPATHS AT THE TOP
Roman Emperor Caligula
Throughout history,
psychopaths, sociopaths and character-disordered individuals have
ruled societies. And, they rule ours.
"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
"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
"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, London columnist
"War means blind obedience,
unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction,
and irresponsible murder."
Alexander Berkman
Glenn Greenwald / Michel Chossudovsky
/ Chris Hedges / John Pilger / Oliver Stone
"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
"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
"More than fifty years
ago the [J.P.] Morgan firm decided to infiltrate the Left-wing
political movements in the United States. This was relatively
easy to do, since these groups were starved for funds and eager
for a voice to reach the people. Wall Street supplied both. The
purpose was not to destroy ... or take over but was really threefold:
(1) to keep informed about the thinking of Left-wing or liberal
groups; (2) to provide them with a mouthpiece so that they could
"blow off steam," and (3) to have a final veto on their
publicity and possibly on their actions, if they ever went "radical".
Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy
and Hope"
Howard Zinn / William Blum / Chalmers
Johnson / F. William Engdahl / Paul Craig Roberts
"Communism and socialism
are themselves forms of monopoly. The only difference is that
in this case, the monopoly is operated by the government. But
what if an international banker, through loans to the state, manipulation
of a central bank, campaign contributions, or bribes, is able
to achieve dominion over a government? In that case, he would
find socialism welcome, for it would serve him as an instrument
to control society."
James Perloff
"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 Hartman
Hugo Chavez- Venezuela (1954-2013)
Evo Morales-Bolivia / Rafael Correa-Ecuador
"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
"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
"The modern pantheon of
enemies are the banking consortium; the global Elite born and
bred from mega-wealth; the academics and economists who disconnect
ideas from reality; and the scientific and military minds who
are so compartmentalized by design that they rarely know what
sort of dictatorship to which they are making their contributions."
Michael Edwards
"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."
Ravi Batra
"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
"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
"American leaders are
perhaps not so much immoral as they are amoral. It's not that
they take pleasure in causing so much death and suffering. It's
that they just don't care. The same that could be said about a
sociopath. As long as the death and suffering advance the agenda
of the empire, as long as the right people and the right corporations
gain wealth and power and privilege and prestige, as long as the
death and suffering aren't happening to them or people close to
them, then they just don't care about it happening to other people,
including the American soldiers whom they throw into wars and
who come home - the ones who make it back alive - with Agent Orange
or Gulf War Syndrome eating away at their bodies. American leaders
would not be in the positions they hold if they were bothered
by such things."
William Blum
Dictators and authoritarian governments
that the United States has helped put in power or supported, most
often by overthrowing democratically-elected governments or suppressing
populist movements.
King Hassan II-Morocco/Rafael
Trujillo-Dominican Republic/Paul Kagame-Rwanda/Antonio Salazar-Portugal
George Papadopoulos-Greece/Sani
Abacha-Nigeria/Anastasio Somoza-Nicaragua/PW Botha-South Africa
Yoweri Moseveni-Uganda/Francisco
Franco-Spain/Hugo Banzer-Bolivia/Chiang Kai-shek-China & Taiwan
Humberto Branco-Brazil/Mobuto
Sese Seko-Rep. Congo (Zaire)/Park Chung Hee-South Korea/Jorge
Videla-Argentina
Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq-Pakistan/Jonas
Savimbi-Angola/Alfred Stroessner-Paraguay/Ferdinand Marcos-Philippines
"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
"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."
Michael Ledeen
UNITED STATES INTERVENTIONS
SINCE 1945
MILITARY INTERVENTIONS, COVERT
OPERATIONS, COUPS AND ATTEMPTED COUPS, ELECTION INTERFERENCE,
REGIME CHANGE, COLOR REVOLUTIONS
Philippines, South Korea, Lebanon,
Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, Rep. Congo (Zaire), Brazil, Greece, Russia,
Poland, Turkey, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia,
Chile, Angola, East Timor, Nicaragua,
Grenada, Panama, Kyrgyzstan, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Georgia, Ukraine,
Argentina, Ghana, Venezuela, Bolivia, Hondoras,
Paraguay, Mexico, El Salvador, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia,
Pakistan, Yemen, Tunesia, Egypt, Libya, Syria
Jean-Bertrand Aristide-Haiti /
Jacobo Arbenz-Guatemala / Kwame Nkrumah-Ghana
Mohammad Mossadegh-Iran / Omar
Torrijos-Panama / Norodom Sihanouk-Cambodia
Maurice Bishop-Granada / Manuel
Zalaya-Honduras / Salvador Allende-Chile
Sukarno-Indonesia / Joao Goulart-Brazil
/ Patrice Lumumba-Rep. Congo
"American foreign-policy
makers are exquisitely attuned to the rise of a government, or
a movement that might take power, that will not lie down and happily
become an American client state, that will not look upon the free
market or the privatization of the world known as "globalization"
as summum bonum [the highest good], that will not change its laws
to favor foreign investment, that will not be unconcerned about
the effects of foreign investment upon the welfare of its own
people, that will not produce primarily for export, that will
not easily tolerate the International Monetary Fund or the World
Trade Organization inflicting a scorched-earth policy upon the
country's social services or standard of living, that will not
allow an American or NATO military installation upon its soil.
Given the proper pretext, such bad examples have to be reduced
to basket cases, or, where feasible, simply overthrown."
William Blum
"We are going to have
a war on terror which you can never win, and so you can always
keep taking people's liberties away. The media is going to convince
everybody that the war on terror is real. The ultimate goal is
to get everybody in the world chipped with an RFID chip, and have
all money be on the chips, and if anyone wants to protest what
we do, we turn off the chip."
Nicholas Rockefeller to producer
Aaron Russo - eleven months before the 9/11 World Trade Center
attacks
"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
"We are on the
verge of global transformation. All we need is the right major
crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
David Rockefeller - statement
to the United Nations Business Council, 1994
"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
"We are grateful to the
Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine, and other
great publications whose directors have attended our meetings
and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the
world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during
those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared
to march towards a world government. The supra-national sovereignty
of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable
to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
David Rockefeller - Council on
Foreign Relations, June 1991
I.F. Stone / George Seldes
"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
"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."
William Blum
"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
"If you wanted
a national monopoly, you must control a national socialist government.
If you want a worldwide monopoly, you must control a world socialist
government. That is what the game is all about. "Communism"
is not a movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement
created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in
order to gain control over the world, first by establishing socialist
governments in the various nations and then consolidating them
all through a "Great Merger," into an all-powerful world,
socialist super-state."
Gary Allen
"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
"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
Frederick Douglass / Eugene Debs
/ Helen Keller / Henry Wallace / William O Douglas
"[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?"
New York Times reporter John Hess
"If Nuremberg were applied,
then every post-war American president would have been hanged."
Noam Chomsky
"A global financial cabal
engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegally
shifted vast amounts of capital out of the US; and used 'privatization'
as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private
investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities
back to government at no cost to the private liability holder...
Clearly, there was a global financial coup d'etat underway."
Catherine Austin Fitts
Pat Robertson / Joseph McCarthy
/ Dick Cheney
"When fascism comes to
America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
Sinclair Lewis
"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
"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
"The corporate grip on
opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western
world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so
entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."
Gore Vidal
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
"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
"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
"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
"From 1945 to 2003, the
United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments,
and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting
against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some
25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people,
and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair."
William Blum
Augusto Pinochet-Chile/Shah Pahlevi-Iran/Pol
Pot-Cambodia/Papa Doc Duvalier-Haiti
General Suharto-Indonesia/Israel/Efrain
Rios Montt-Guatemala/Hosni Mubarak-Egypt
Al Sabah dynasty-Kuwait/Al Thani
dynasty-Qatar/Saud dynasty-Saudi Arabia/Khalifa dynasty-Bahrain
"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
"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
What Can I Do?
"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
"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
"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
"Patriotism has got to
be more than hanging out a flag and then sitting on your ass watching
jets bomb Afghanistan."
Ruth Coniff
"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
"The Depression [1929]
was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence. The
international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair
here [United States] so that they might emerge as rulers of us
all."
Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of
the U.S. House of Representatives' Banking and Currency Committee,
1932
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