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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2021 19:11:16 GMT
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.” - Noam Chomsky
“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. ” - George W. Bush
“There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.” - Tony Benn
“The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.” - Chris Hedges
Terrorism has no nationality or religion. - Vladimir Putin
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Sept 14, 2021 16:29:49 GMT
Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2021 16:29:49 GMT
Imperialism is the single-greatest cause of war, and war is the midwife of new imperialist acquisitions.
– Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire [2004]
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Sept 14, 2021 18:44:14 GMT
Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2021 18:44:14 GMT
“War is like a vacuum cleaner that sucks tax dollars out of your pocket and funnels the money directly into the pockets of the robber barons who own the weapons factories.” - Oliver Markus Malloy
"The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values.” - Suzy Kassem
“I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty” - John F. Kennedy
“Victory or defeat will be determined by the skill and ingenuity of our scientists. If we put them to work making poison gas and more and more fiendish mechanical and explosive instruments of destruction, they will have no time for the constructive job of creating greater prosperity for all peoples.” - Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket:
“War is the most profitable business on earth” - Kenneth Eade, Beyond All Recognition
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2021 8:09:56 GMT
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. - Alan Dershowitz
People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular. - Mohamed ElBaradei
The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians. - Shashi Tharoor
Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war. - John O. Brennan
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Post by Admin on Sept 21, 2021 12:51:25 GMT
“A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.”
– Jason Epstein
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Sept 22, 2021 10:11:15 GMT
Post by Admin on Sept 22, 2021 10:11:15 GMT
"Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see" www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMewtlmkV6c
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2021 2:45:28 GMT
“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness... to inform yourself.”
~ Timothy Leary
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Oct 15, 2021 16:37:48 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2021 16:37:48 GMT
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem
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Post by Admin on Oct 17, 2021 20:53:04 GMT
"We are all brothers and sisters under the skin and above it . . . it's super important that we stop lobbing bombs over the top of the wall and start trying to dismantle it, so that we can say 'hi' to whoever is on the other side, whether the divide is religious or nationalistic or politic or economic." - Roger Waters
"Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace." - Francis B. Sayre
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Oct 19, 2021 8:21:05 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 19, 2021 8:21:05 GMT
That this world is a place of horror must affect every serious artist and thinker, darkening his reflection, ruining his system, sometimes actually driving him mad. Any seriousness avoids this fact at its peril, and the great ones who have seemed to neglect it have only done so in appearance.
Iris Murdoch
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Post by Admin on Oct 19, 2021 20:53:09 GMT
“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.” - Wendell Berry
“It is the duty of everyman, so far as his ability allows, to detect and expose delusion and error.” - Thomas Paine
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.” - Autobiography of Mark Twain
“The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.” - Marcus Aurelius
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Oct 20, 2021 19:25:08 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2021 19:25:08 GMT
It has often been remarked that there is a side at which genius and madness touch, and even pass over into each other, and indeed poetical inspiration has been called a kind of madness. ~Arthur Schopenhauer (Book: The Work as will and Representation amzn.to/3G3l028)
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Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2021 18:12:18 GMT
Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. ~Leo Tolstoy (Book: A Calendar of Wisdom amzn.to/3G5Wr4B)
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Oct 24, 2021 14:04:31 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 24, 2021 14:04:31 GMT
"It is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man's greatest danger to man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes" - Carl Jung
We have met the enemy and he is us”: - Walt Kelly
Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” -Edmund Burke
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” - William Faulkner
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Oct 25, 2021 9:17:28 GMT
Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2021 9:17:28 GMT
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. ~Ernest Hemingway (Book: A Farewell to Arms amzn.to/3b58QHH)
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