Robert McChesney: As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Martin Luther King, Jr.: History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
David Barsamian: One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Noam Chomsky: The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Blum: Patriotism, like religion, meets people's need for something greater to which their individual lives can be anchored ... America's state religion, (is) patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Arnold J. Toynbee: America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome's policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Friedman: The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Robert Bowman: We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism and in the future, nuclear terrorism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
David Korten: The corporation is not a person and it does not live. It is a lifeless bundle of legally protected financial rights and relationships brilliantly designed to serve money and its imperatives. It is money that flows in its veins, not blood. The corporation has neither soul nor conscience. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joel Bleifuss: We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles Higham: ...a number of financial and industrial figures of World War II and several members of the government served the cause of money before the cause of patriotism. While aiding the United States' war effort, they also aided Nazi Germany's. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles Higham: ... several of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi corporations before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben, the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Tony Benn: All the emphasis on crime and drugs and pornography used to justify the suppression of the internet is really aimed at suppressing knowledge of the radical politic alternatives that are now available. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Hermann Hesse: The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Noam Chomsky: ... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lazar Kaganovich: First, Stalin is disowned, now, little by little, they come to prosecute socialism, the October Revolution, and in no time they will also want to prosecute Lenin and Marx. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Liu Shaoqi: (I)t is important to never divorce ourselves from the current revolutionary struggle of the masses, but to identify ourselves with it, to study, sum up & apply the revolutionary experience of the past. (W)e must cultivate & temper ourselves in revolutionary practice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Noam Chomsky: That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Assata Shakur: Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Issac Asimov: The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Georges Politzer: (O)ur ideas are the reflection of things... We find that men live in a capitalist society and that their ideas appear in this society and are derived from it. A proletarian thinks like a proletarian, and a bourgeois thinks like a bourgeois. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nelson Mandela: We first broke the law in a way which avoided any recourse to violence; when this form was legislated against, and then the government resorted to a show of force to crush opposition to its policies, only then did we decide to answer violence with violence. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Big Bill Haywood: The mine owners "did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
