Napoleon Bonaparte: Authoritarian government required to speak, is silent...Representative government required to speak, LIES with impunity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Noam Chomsky: It is not the case as the naive might think that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy, rather . . . it's the essence of democracy. The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn't much matter because you've got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can't control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem-it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don't have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda, manufacture of consent, creation of necessary illusion. Various ways of either marginalizing the public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
David Rockefeller: We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Samuel Adams: It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
A. J. P. Taylor: No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is ALWAYS economic. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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Amnesty International: The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Woodrow Wilson: We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Kennan: We have about 60% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its' population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joel Skousen: There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globalism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Abraham Lincoln: Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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/…
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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/…
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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/…
Ramsey Clark: How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery (in the world). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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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/…
Anthony Quainton: If they do it it's terrorism, if we do it, it's fighting for freedom. 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/…
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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/…
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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/…
