John Foster Dulles: In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Harold Pinter: The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Daniel K. Inouye: There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Andrew Grove: If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Howard Zinn: (Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jeremy Brecher: All over the world, people need change. The change? Getting control over the power and resources they need to solve their problems. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: ... there is a system of terroristic states -- the real terror network -- that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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/…
