Howard Zinn: The modern liberal state, like Machiavelli's fox, often uses deception to gain its ends-not so much deception of the foreign enemy (which, after all, has little faith in its adversaries), but of its own citizens, who have been taught to trust their leaders. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Martinez de Hoz: We enjoy the economic stability that the Armed Forces guarantee us. This (economic) plan can be fulfilled dispite its lack of popular support. It has sufficient political support ... that provided buy the Armed Forces. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles Wright Mills: Today in America (is)... the development of a permanent war establishment by a privately incorporated economy inside a political vacuum. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: ... the establishment can't admit (that) it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that (don't) meet (the) standard of service to the transnational corporation... wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cecil Rhodes: We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package -- the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity -- must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jeremy Brecher: The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations' favor. The consequence is a "race to the bottom" in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Robert McChesney: ... so long as the media are in corporate hands, the task of social change will be vastly more difficult, if not impossible ... wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: ... U. S. business wants a "favorable climate of investment" abroad, and ... military regimes that will crush labor unions and otherwise serve foreign business meet that demand. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Margaret Mead: Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Aung San Suu Kyi: It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Henry Adams: We have a single system, and in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses." " The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Neil Postman: Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Dugger: The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whomever does not. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Michael Parenti: With unfailing consistancy, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Hitler: We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ralph Nader: When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Saul Landau: His forces executed or "disappeared" 3, 197 people. Tens of thousands were tortured, hundreds of thousands were forced into exile. Pinochet destroyed the constitution, the parliament, the political parties, the trade unions, and the free universities. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Robert McChesney: In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Carlos Salinas: If you liked El Salvador, you're going to love Colombia. It's the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would ... have given every U.S. president of the past 50 years Nuremberg treatment. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Robert Naiman: When the IMF and the World Bank force a country to cut wages, lay off workers, produce for export instead of their own people, and sell off public property to cronies for less than its value, that's called "economic reform." wordsmith.social/protestation/…
