''I do not recognize Trump, as President of the USA. I recognize only the legitimate President - Netanyahu. ''
Nietzsche:
“Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations, and ages, it is the rule.”
Slavoj ZIzek:
Until the rich world thinks 'one world,' migration will intensify''
In September 2018, both Al Skeilbiyyeh and Mhardeh were attacked by Western-backed armed groups, who targeted the towns with prohibited cluster munitions. In Mhardeh, thirteen civilians were martyred, as a result of this heinous attack, which was barely acknowledged by the western media, or the international community.
Mhardeh resident, Shadi Yousef Shehda, lost his mother Afifeh, his wife Rama, his eldest daughter Maria, a 6-year-old son, Fadi and his two-year-old daughter, Stefani, who were martyred on September 7th, 2018 --- “sliced to pieces” by the missiles launched by the extremist groups.
“I offered to my mother, Syria, the most precious things in my life - my mother, my wife and my three children - but, despite this, I celebrated Christmas in Mhardeh, because Mhardeh is the ‘Sun City”, the source of life. In spite of everything, I am ready to sacrifice myself, for Mhardeh and for Syria. My family watered the soil with their blood and I am ready to do the same”
During his Christmas Eve sermon
in 1967, Martin Luther King said:
“We must either learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to perishtogether, as fools”.
Russia's Foreign Miister, Lavrov, on the US' recent statements 'de-legitimising' Venezuela's socialist government:
“Very alarming - and it indicated that the US policy of destabilizing governments it does not like, remains a priority.”
Cesar Chavez:
“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy, like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism, and the animal kingdom. It was my dog, Boycott, who led me... to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.”
Cesar Chavez:
“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand, that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them, as we love ourselves.”
Cesar Chavez:
“We know we cannot be kind to animals, until we stop exploiting them - exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and, yes, exploiting animals, in the name of food.”
The Quran (49:11):
"O you who believe! No people shall ridicule other people, for they may be better than they. Nor shall any women ridicule other women, for they may be better than they. Nor shall you slander one another, nor shall you insult one another with names. Evil is the return to wickedness, after having attained faith. Whoever does not repent - these are the wrongdoers."
Seneca:
“For greed, all of nature, is too little.”
US State Department mandarin George Kennan, in 1948:
“We have about 50 percent of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3 percent of its population. Our real task, in the coming period, is to devise a pattern or relationships, which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. To do so, we'll have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreamings. ”
John Wight:
''We have arrived at a moment when the continuation of the status quo, is death itself.''
Oscar Wilde, on the Death Scene in Charles Dickens “Little Nell”:
“You'd have to have a heart of stone, not to laugh.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain. ''There is no greater power than love. All strength comes with the awakening of love in the heart. If there is any protecting influence in the world, it is no other than love. In all aspects of life, wherever we find protection, its motive is always love, and no one can have trust in any protection, however great, except the protection that love offers. If a giant were to frighten a child, the child would say, 'I will tell my mother...' The strength and power of any man is too small in comparison with love's protection, which the mother affords her child. Love can heal, better than anything in the world.''
Darius Shahtahmasebi legal and political analyst, currently specialising in immigration, refugee and humanitarian law:
"The US is still offended by the idea that it could possibly be doing anything wrong, at any time."
Laurie Calhoun, author of ‘We Kill Because We Can’, an in-depth look at the US’ drone war:
''Apostate operators and sensors have become disenchanted with the profession, and are plagued by feelings of regret and guilt - for having agreed to kill, on command, people who never threatened them, personally, with death.''
Christopher Aaron, ex image analyst at Langley, Virginia & in Afghanistan as intelligence liaison:
''The cognitive dissonance amongst those who work in an office, killing people on the other side of the planet, remotely, and then leave work and go to the grocery store, the gym, or to their families, can only be suppressed for so long.''
Heather Linebaugh, high-school graduate, looking for a way out of rural Pennsylvania, now 'whistle blower':
“I was under the impression that America was saving the world --- like, that we were Big Brother and we were helping everyone out. It’s so primitive, raw, stripped-down death. This is real. It’s not a joke.”
Heather Linebaugh, who later committed suicide:
''You see someone die because you said it was okay to kill them. I was always shaking. Sometimes I would just go to the bathroom and just sit on the toilet. I mean, just sit there in my uniform, and just cry.''
Christopher Aaron, ex image analyst at Langley, Virginia & in Afghanistan as intelligence liaison:
''How many more ‘terrorists’ have we now created from those impressionable boys, who see the prophecy of their teacher come true?''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''Here are two things: knowing and being. It is easy to know truth, but most difficult to be truth. It is not in knowing truth, that life's purpose is accomplished; life's purpose is accomplished, in being truth.''
Satanist doctrine:
"Do what thou wilt be the whole of the law."
Anonymous, from the sixties:
Ahhhhhh those were the days ..good music... good pot ..cold beer and sweet hippie chicks dressed in loose sun dresses, no bras, and sweet hairy pussies!!!
Book of James, (Jesus' brother), ch1, vs 6-9:
"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man (or woman) think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double -minded man is unstable in all his ways."
Jeannette Rankin:
“You can no more win a war, than you can win an earthquake.”
John White:
''Something of the order of 70-80,000 Syrian soldiers have perished. This constitutes a staggering toll, in a country whose army stood at 220,000 at the start of the conflict. More crucially, it is a toll that could not possibly have been borne, without the solid support of the Syrian people for the army and its government, led by President Bashar Assad, over these past eight years.''
Blogger:
''Just how many wars has Islam started in the past 1,000 years, or so? They have been attacked, more often than not, by Christians...All the religions are foolish but Christianity is particularly so, when it preaches peace,yet creates endless war.''
Prophet Muhammad (SAW):
“O mankind, your Lord is One and your father is one. You all descended from Adam, and Adam was created from the earth. He is most honoured among you, in the sight of God, who is most upright. No Arab is superior to a non-Arab, no coloured person to a white person, or a white person to a coloured person, except by Taqwa (piety).”
Hindustani saying:
''No matter how much wealth you have, if you do not have the treasure of virtue, it is of no use.''
George Washington:
They, the Jews, work more effectively against us, than the enemy’s armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in… It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pests to society and the greatest enemies we have, to the happiness of America."
Thomas Jefferson, 1798:
''It is true that we are completely under the saddle of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and, that they ride us very hard, cruelly insulting our feelings, as well as exhausting our strength and substance.''
Thomas Jefferson, just before his election as President:
''[S]eeing that we must have somebody to quarrel with, I had rather keep our New England associates for that purpose, than to see our bickerings transferred to others. They are circumscribed within such narrow limits, and their population so full, their numbers will ever be the minority, and they are marked, like the Jews, with such perversity of character, as to constitute, from that circumstance, the natural division of our parties.''
James H. Thornwell, 1859:
''There is at work in this land a Yankee spirit and an American spirit.''
Clyde Wilson:
''It was not the Union that our Southern forefathers seceded from, but the deadly combination of Yankee greed and righteousness.''
Sergei Glazyev, a key adviser to President Putin:
“if the US keeps contradicting international law… the first measure we would have to take, together with China and other countries who are suffering from US aggression, would be to get rid of the dollar as the key international currency.”
Sergei Glazyev, a key adviser to President Putin:
“China... has created the most progressive system in the world for directing economic development, combining planning with market self-regulation and subordinating private initiative to the needs of raising the general welfare, through an increased volume and efficiency of production.”
China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi:
“The great problem, for the world community, is the struggle against the unilateral world order. The BRICS countries are responsible for forming a common position, and a joint position, against the unilateral world order.”
Sun Tzu's The Art of War, says:
''A wise man shall never seek war, both sides will lose many men, regardless of who wins or loses.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
He who is afraid of vice is subject to vice; He who is addicted to vice is its captive; He who acquaints himself with vice is the pupil of vice; He who learns his lesson from vice, who passes through it, and rises above it, is master and conqueror.
Andre Vltchek:
''Many 'progressive' Western intellectuals are denouncing global injustice, and Western (North) imperialism - but are unwilling to struggle or even vote for, an egalitarian planet. In a way, there is no real left in the West, anymore. The real left, is internationalist. The Western left is only interested in & struggles for, privileges for its people: (shorter working hours, better medical care, higher wages, etc.), mostly at the expense of the poor and semi- colonized world, or call it, the 'South'.''
Costantino Ceoldo, freelance writer:
''If it is true that none of the US imperial adventures of the last few years, would have been possible, without the help & complicity of the European Union, it is also true, that European rulers belong to the same Superclan, that is on its way to its own end.''
Dmitry Babich:
''The EU has lost every referendum they have organised in the last fifteen years.''
Karl Marx, in 1882:
“An international movement of the proletariat is possible only among independent nations. The little bit of republican internationalism -- between 1830 and 1848 -- was grouped around France, [and] increased French chauvinism, in such a way, as to cause the world-liberating mission of France, and with it, France’s native right to be in the lead, to get in our way, every day, even now.”
Peter Koenig, international observer for the Presidential Economic Advisory Commission:
"…It is absolutely clear who is behind the food and medicine boycotts (empty supermarket shelves), and the induced internal violence [in Venezuela]. It is a carbon copy of what the CIA, under Kissinger’s command, did in Chile, in 1973, which led to the murder of the legitimate and democratically elected President Allende, and to the Pinochet military coup."
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister:
“Let me control the media, and I will turn any Nation into a herd of Pigs”.
John Bolton, in 2002, threatening Jose Bustani, the head of the OPCW and his family, because he ran the OPCW as a neutral organisation:
“You have 24 hours to leave the organisation, and if you don’t comply with this decision by Washington, we have ways to retaliate against you. We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York.”
José Bustani, retired Brazilian diplomat and former head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons:
“My family is aware of the situation, and we are prepared to live with the consequences of my decision.”
José Bustani,:
“The problem with this man is that he’s so ideological, so brutal; he doesn’t open the door to dialogue. I don’t know how people can work for him.”
José Bustani:
“John Bolton is a bully.”
Blogger on RT:
''Remember also, that Bustani stood up to him, but the US led a coup & drummed up support to have Bustani removed, by threatening those who did not support the US, with losing US aid. Bustani left with dignity and respect. One can only assume, with the reports on Syria and the UK, that Bustaini's replacement was in the pocket of the US, as is the new head of the OPCW.''
Andre Vltchek:
''Samir believed that all the evil comes from global capitalism. That it is a direct result - a bi-product - of capitalism. I have been arguing that it's what Carl Gustav Jung called the 'pathological culture of the West', that Western culture is, essentially, sick, and that both imperialism and extreme forms of capitalism, are the direct and logical result, of such a culture.''
Adolph Hitler on April 13th, 1923, in Munich:
"Always, before god and the world, the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills. The whole of nature is a mighty struggle between strength and weakness, an eternal victory of the strong, over the weak."
Benjamin Netanyahu, August 29th 2018, at the Negev Nuclear Weapons Centre:
"The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history, while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and, in the end, peace is made, with the strong."
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov speaking at the news conference with his Turkish counterpart, August 15th:
“The dollar’s days as a global trade currency, are numbered”.
Major General, Qiau Liang, in 2016:
“The US needs a large ‘capital return’, to support the daily life of the Americans, and the US economy. Under such circumstances, [any nation that] blocks the return of capital to the US, is the enemy of the US. We must understand this matter, clearly. To effectively contain the US, other countries shall think more, on how to cut the capital flow to the US, while formulating their strategies”.
Tyler Durban:
''With a strong dollar, trading partners’ currencies devalue, their interest and capital payments soar and, traditionally, they are pushed to the IMF for a dose of austerity and the sale of their national assets. This is the ‘play’, which Russia and China intend to end. They have set up alternatives to the Word Bank and to the IMF, to which Turkey may have recourse – instead of being forced into an IMF programme.''
Saint Alexander Nevsky, defender of Russia:
"God is not in force, but in Truth."
Andre Vltchek, philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist:
''Historically and culturally, Islam is a socialist religion. In many countries, in almost all of them, because of the West and its Saudi allies, Islam has been derailed, kidnapped and used against the people.''
Buddha:
''There are 3 things you cannot hide. The sun, the moon and the truth.''
Andre Vltchek:
''The West was mainly to blame for this state of Islam. London, particularly, has been supporting and spreading Wahhabism. Both Washington and London, kept overthrowing one socialist Muslim government after another, from Iran to Indonesia and Afghanistan, putting on the throne, the most regressive, brutal and greedy rulers, who have been using Islam, as a cover for their collaboration with the West.''
Philip Giraldi:
''Yulia Skripal has recently announced, that she intends to return to her home in Russia - leading to the conclusion, that even one of the alleged victims, does not believe the narrative being promoted by the British and American governments.''
George Galloway, MP for 30 yrs, film-maker, writer & orator:
''The media here have completely ignored the statement of the head of the anti-terrorist squad of Scotland Yard - that he had "No" evidence of Russian state involvement in the crime in Salisbury, preferring instead, the cheap barroom brawling of the British prime minister on the floor of the House of Commons, cheered on by the vulgar popular press and their more refined elder sisters in the upmarket papers and on the BBC.''
Daniel, blogger (edited):
''It's out of fashion to hate jews today. Muslims have taken over that position, as the new target for the misdirected anger of the ignorant and brain- washed masses. And whether there were 1.5 million jews killed by Nazi Germany, or 6 million, doesnt really matter. It was horrible. It was bad. But that generation is almost gone now: there is no excuse for zionists who use this tragedy as a justification to act against the palestine people, exactly as the nazi germans acted against the jews, in the '30s and '40s.''
Daniel, blogger (edited):
''I am more outraged about the fact that many uneducated people, today, only know about jews being persecuted and murdered by the nazis.''
Daniel, blogger (edited):
''The first wave of victims were handicapped and chronically ill people, then they went after the social democrats, the communists, the labour unions, priests, various christian sects.''
Daniel, blogger (edited):
''Attacks against ethnic/cultural minorities were not only against jews. The romani people suffered more than the jews - if you look at the percentage of the entire ethnic population killed.''
Daniel, blogger (edited):
''The victims were many. In Mein Kampf, Hitler makes a list of the enemies he wanted to destroy. The first was the communists. Second, came the jews. Food for thought.''
Daniel, blogger (edited):
''Read more about history, people, and don't just look at state or corporate approved documentaries, spewed out by the old mainstream media.''
Andre Vltchek:
''[China] is smeared, in the West (North) by both the mainstream and often by the left (which just cannot accept that an Asian, non- Western country, is capable of building a much better society than anything that was ever created in Europe and North America... and without plundering the rest of the world).''
John 8:44:
''You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar, and the father of lies.''
John Lennon:
“You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.”
Vladimir Ilych Lenin:
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake ‘public opinion’ for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”
Catholic theologian G.K. Chesterton:
"Angels can fly, because they take themselves lightly."
Sufi-Zen poet Thomas Burns:
“May you be ridiculously happy!”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced, and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.
Blogger:
''Food for thought... Syria's vice president is a woman and half of the parliament are made up of women from all sects. For some reason, this is never mentioned. Probably because it kills the 'Assad is a dictator' narrative.''
OpEd columnist John Wight:
“Only when we are living in a world in which sanctions are imposed ‘on’ the United States, rather than ‘by’ the United States... will we know justice reigns.”
Andre Vltchek, philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist:
''Iran is already a semi-socialist country, which has been greatly influenced by Venezuela and other progressive Latin American nations. That, is something that we are not supposed to know. Iran is also putting great emphasis on social services, like healthcare, culture, education, public transportation. Teheran is shockingly elegant, clean and an impressive city, full of arts and culture. The people are educated and knowledgeable, and very open. Even now, Iran is moving closer and closer to Russia, left-wing S. American countries, and China. The visa regime for Russian citizens has been abolished, and Iranians travel visa-free, to the Russian Federation. Many are now fascinated with China; when I was in Teheran, there was a Chinese film festival. Together with Russia, China, Cuba & Venezuela, Iran has become an important bastion of anti- imperialism.That is why it is hated in the West, of course.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will, so that the heart may not easily be broken.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''There are two essential duties, for the man of wisdom and love; that is, to keep the love in our nature ever increasing and expanding and to strengthen the will so that the heart may not be easily broken. Balance is ideal in life; man must be fine and yet strong, man must be loving and yet powerful.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
Love produces harmony and harmony creates beauty. Therefore the chief motto in life is 'Love, harmony and beauty'.
Love is the nature of life, beauty is the outcome of life, harmony is the means by which life accomplishes its purpose, and the lack of it, results in destruction.
Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
Jesus Christ:
"Your fathers work, you will do."
Our Father Among the Saints, John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople:
''Enter into the Church - and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed again to enter the Church, be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent.''
Bekhteev's poem ‘Come to your senses, upper classes!’:
And once more their hearts are full of intrigue, And once more treachery and lies are on their lips, And life writes into the chapter of the last book The vile treason of the grandees who knew it all.
Netanyahu in Fink's Bar in Jerusalem in 1990:
"America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece - until there is nothing left but the world's biggest welfare state that we will create & control. Why? Because it is the will of God, and America is big enough to take the hit, so we can do it again and again and again. This is what we do, to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly and make them suffer, for refusing to be our slaves."
US economist Barry Eichengreen:
"It costs only a few cents for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to produce a $100 bill, but other countries had to pony up $100 of actual goods, in order to obtain one."
George Gordon Noel Byron:
“If youth but knew; if age but could. Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.”
Blogger:
''Old doesn't mean decrepit. Older people possess Wisdom, because of a whole life time of experience. Also, instead of coming from EGO and Intellect, they are often in touch with the higher level of Intuition and Wisdom. That's why Native Americans have such a high regard for their Elders. Of course the White society movie & advertising industry only has regard for Youth. Wisdom is not respected.''
Jay Tharappel: ''Anti-Stalinism is what became of Marxism after a century of ideological inbreeding within a Eurocentic echo-chamber, without being rejuvenated and, to a degree, corrected by, post-colonial criticism.''
Andre Vltchek, philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist:
''The West 'kidnapped' 'left-wing', as it kidnapped Islam. 'Interest groups' and individualism fully infiltrated what used to be an internationalist and highly disciplined movement. In the West, what is called 'left', is now some kind of anarcho- syndicalism (a totally Western concept that could never be supported in such places as Asia), sprinkled with sexual orientation and gender identity. It's not a revolutionary block, very far from it. It is a 'selfie-Left' - a totally toothless nonsense. Creative Marxism, is now in China, Latin America, and in other non-Western countries. Communism is definitely not dead, as they want you to believe in London, Paris or New York. It evolved, it's evolving. But its essence is the same - Internationalism, the mortal fight against Western imperialism, and equality for all.''
George Orwell, in his novel, 1984:
''He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.''
Adolf Hitler:
“The wealth of Great Britain is the result - less of a perfect commercial organisation - than of the capitalist exploitation of the three hundred and fifty million Indian slaves. They know very well, that it’s the possession of India, on which the existence of their Empire, depends.”
Jay Tharappel:
''When the British arrived in Bengal (India) it was one of the richest places in the world, and when they left, it was reduced to the poorest place in the world. When the British won their first victory on Indian soil in 1757, India owned roughly 24% of global income, and when the British left, it was 4%.''
Adolf Hitler:
“What India was for England, the territories of Russia will be, for us.”
To justify the partitioning of Palestine to make way for Israel, Churchill said:
“I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia… by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race… has come in and taken their place”.
US Army General Jacob H. Smith's order, upon the start of the Philippines War:
“Kill everyone over 10 years old.”
Lenin:
“As a result of the extensive colonial policy, the European proletarian, partly, finds himself in a position when it is not his labour, but the labour of the practically enslaved natives in the colonies, that maintains the whole of society.”
Lenin:
“The British bourgeoisie, for example, derives more profit from the many millions of the population of India and other colonies, than from the British workers. In certain countries, this provides the material and economic basis --- for infecting the proletariat with colonial chauvinism.”
Henri Van Kol of the Dutch Socialist Workers’ Party at the 2nd International, on the 14th of July, 1889:
“Suppose we bring a machine to the savages of central Africa. What will they do with it? Perhaps they will start up a war dance around it. Perhaps they will kill us or even eat us.”
Rogozin, on Rossiya-24 tv, January 29th 2016:
"The US cannot separate its segment of the ISS in such a way that it will continue flying. Few people know, that the Russian segment can be autonomous. We can separate from the ISS tomorrow and stay on the orbit, working there. The Americans cannot do that, they are absolutely tied to us, they are nothing without us."
Gerald Celente:
"Currency wars,trade wars,world wars.''
Robert Tressell:
“Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future, is helping to perpetuate the present misery, and is, therefore, the enemy of his own children. There is no such thing as being neutral: we must either help, or hinder.”
Singer/songwriter and peace activist, Phil Ochs:
''One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply, to more people, than a thousand rallies.''
Singer/songwriter and peace activist, Phil Ochs:
Show me a prison, show me a jail Show me a prisoner whose face has grown pale And I'll show you a young man With many reasons why There but for fortune, go you or I.
Show me an alley, show me a train Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain And I'll show you a young man With many reasons why There but for fortune, go you or I
Show me a country where the bombs had to fall Show me the ruins of buildings so tall And I'll show you a young land With so many reasons why There but for fortune, go you or I You or I.
Singer/songwriter and peace activist, Phil Ochs:
''Leave the old and dying America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, that would be de-militarized, more humanistic, where the police are less hostile, and closer to the community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power for the exploitation of the people. And mostly because it's now a matter of life and death --- reassert the ecological balance with the environment, which means people in the oil companies and car companies & the space industry - and all the other industries - will have to be brought into account, so that there will be a new definition of government, which has to be closer to the people & less close to special interests --- which are far more harmful than any revolutionaries.''
After Phil Och's death, the FBI continued to consider him as:
"Potentially dangerous"
Singer/songwriter and peace activist, Phil Ochs:
"In an ugly world, the only true protest, is beauty"
William Blake:
Every night and ev'ry morn, some to misery are born.
Every morn and every night, some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to endless night.
Paul Craig Roberts:
“The 'War on Terror' is really a war on Muslim countries with foreign policies independent of Washington and Israel; it is a war on US civil liberty, and a war on Middle Eastern countries in the way of Israeli territorial expansion.But Washington pretends it's a 'war for democracy' - a 'war for freedom from terrorism.' ”
Henry Kissinger, adviser to 6 US Presidents:
"The chief task of the USA is now the depopulation of the world."
Napoleon Bonaparte:
"Never interrupt your enemy, when he is making a mistake"
Mao Zedong, known as Chairman Mao:
"There is great disorder under the sky, so the situation is excellent!"
Professor, Practice of Public Policy, Kishore Mahbubani:
“The era of Western domination is coming to an end. Western elites should lift their sights from their domestic civil wars and focus on the larger global challenges. Instead, they are, in various ways, accelerating their irrelevance and disintegration.”
The International Court at the Hague ruled, on June 26, 1986, as follows:
“The International Court at the Hague decides that the United States of America, by training, arming, equipping, financing and supplying the ‘contra’ forces; or otherwise encouraging, supporting and aiding military and paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua, has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to intervene in the affairs of another State.”
George W. Bush:
"If any country takes an American before the ICC we will bomb The Hague."
Charles Pierson, lawyer, & a member of Pittsburgh Anti-Drone Warfare Coalition:
"The American Servicemembers’ Protection Act empowers the US president to use “all means necessary and appropriate” to free US citizens (civilian or military --- despite the Act’s name) who may in the future be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague."
Former CIA agent John Stockwell: “I don’t mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to understand what your government and its agents are doing. They [the Contras] go into villages, they haul out families. With the children forced to watch, they castrate the father, they peel the skin off his face, they put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin. With the children forced to watch they gang- rape the mother, and slash her breasts off. And sometimes for variety, they make the parents watch while they do these things to the children.”
Ex US president Ronald Reagan:
''The Contras are the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.''
Historian William Blum:
“Americans are like the children of a mafia boss who do not know how their father makes his living, but then they are shocked when someone throws a firebomb through their living-room window.”
War & Peace (page 429), Anna Pavlovna:
''Europe will never be a sincere ally of ours.''
Blogger:
''If you imply that Serbia started a war against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, then you are dead wrong - and you are just spreading the usual German propaganda.
''The assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Bosnia was not planned, or organized, by Serbia. The Ultimatum on Serbia, and the war that followed, was not in Serb interests at all.
''In WW1 Serbia lost 1 THIRD of its male population. It is the equivalent of what happened to the USSR in WW2, or even worse.
''Serbia was a tiny country, compared to the huge Austro-Hungarian Empire, so one must be really cynical, to accuse Serbia of starting that war.''
Woodrow Wilson, before the US entered WW1:
"I promise you, this war will be the last one - the war that will end all wars."
Hitler, before WW2:
"This will be the war of all wars. The last war ever to be fought. To unite humanity and all countries in one civilization and under one glorious flag."
Charles Xll, in the 18th century, just before Sweden lost both the war - and the status of a great power:
"Russia is a dwarf, I will put her on her knees."
Friedrich, in the 18th century, just before the Russian army entered Berlin in 1759:
"I will conquer backward Russia."
Napoleon, in the 19th century, just before the Russian army took Paris, in 1814:
"Russia - a colossus on clay legs."
Hitler, in the 20th century, just before he committed suicide, when the Red army entered Berlin, in 1945:
"I will conquer the USSR before the end of the year."
Blogger:
''War with Russia is total war. Every century in history Russia participated in such a war. And became the biggest country in the world. Somehow... Is it not strange?''
F. William Engdahl:
“Putin’s speech talked about nuclear primacy, and the Russian response, and he outlined the military developments they had quietly brought online --- since Washington unilaterally tore up the ABM Treaty in 2002/2003. So he outlined an awesome array of missiles; hypersonic low flying, stealth missiles, carrying nuclear warheads on unpredictable trajectories, invisible against any prospective missile defence and air defence systems... unmanned submersible vehicles at great depths, that could go many times faster than the speed of any submarine's cutting edge torpedoes; and commentators in the West like CNN said: “Oh, this is just bluff. and so forth.” It’s indeed, game set and match over - for the empire. There’s no more military option against Russia.”
Joe Quinn, co-author of 9/11: The Ultimate Truth:
''Raytheon stock surged on Friday morning, after 59 of the company's Tomahawk missiles were used to strike Syria, in Donald Trump's first major military operation as President. If it had been publicly revealed how badly the Tomahawks really did, Raytheon stock would have lost a similar amount.''
Blogger:
''Please watch this on utoob.....and spread the word... jimmy Dore show, title: chemical attacks in Syria proven to be false, start at 16:19... John Kerry admits that Saudi Arabia will pay the cost for the US to destroy Syria, as the US destroyed Iraq..... hey USA, why do you listen to FOX and CNN lies when you can watch CSPAN and see and hear the evil coming right out of your politicians mouths....''
Bolivia's President Morales:
''You cannot pretend you are upholding international law - while breaking international law.''
The Kremlin:
''Missiles must hit terrorists - not a government which fights terrorists.''
President Assad of Syria, in 2017: (noting that, in spite of all the Western pressure on every country, including India, to join the embargo against the Syrian people, India wouldn’t cease its relationship with Syria)
“We respect the Indian position a lot, because, first of all, it’s based on the international law, it’s based on the United Nations' charter, it’s based on the morals of the world, of human civilizations first, and Indian civilization second, and, secondly, it's based on the Indian people’s morals.”
China'sGlobal Times Op-Ed:
''The West is only a small fraction of the world, & is nowhere near the global representative it once thought it was. The silenced minorities within the international community need to realize this, and prove just how deep their understanding is, of such a realization... by proving it to the world through action."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (The Brothers Karamazov):
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie, comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth with- in him, or around him and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect, he ceases to love.”
New Silk Strategies' staff:
''This is the Western world where you are now, a world where hate holds sway over love, and profound ignorance over knowledge and wisdom.''
Thomas Paine:
“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime”
Smedley Butler, Marine Major General, USMC.:
“ I believe in adequate defense at the coastline, and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America, is that, when the dollar only earns six percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent... Then the flag follows the dollar, and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn’t go to war again, as I have done, to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes, and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
''There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies; its “muscle men”, to destroy enemies; its “brain men” to plan war preparations; and a “Big Boss”, Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism!
''It may seem odd for me, a military man, to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to... I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service, as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And, during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers…..
''In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for Capitalism."
George Bush senior:
"If the people knew what we'd been up to they'd be coming after us --- with ropes!"
President Assad, of Syria:
“The only thing that moves you, is people that you trust, people who are level-headed, people who are thoughtful, people who are moral, ethical, that's what should move anything inside you, whether positive or negative. Some- one like Trump, will move nothing for me.”
Arundhati Roy, in 2001, reacting to the Western “War on Terror”:
“When he announced the air strikes, President George Bush said, "We're a peaceful nation." America's favourite ambassador, Tony Blair, ...echoed him: "We're a peaceful people." So now we know. Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is Peace.”
Addressing the accusations of meddling in the US election, Russian President Vladimir Putin:
''Presidents come and go, and even the parties in power change, but the main political direction does not change. That’s why, in the grand scheme of things, we don’t care who is the head of the United States; we know, more or less, what is going to happen. So, in this regard, even if we wanted to, it wouldn't make sense for us to interfere.''
Blogger:
''A friend in an African country once told me "these Western soldiers are fat, like little babies, they could not walk for an hour in Africa, without panting like a dying goat and drinking water" in his own words:- the soldiers are weak, over- fed - and cannot last in a long fight. So, while the Western soldiers went into Africa to learn about Africa, the African soldiers were learning about the Western soldiers: and my friend mentioned to me, how they looked down on the fat slobs.''
Dmitry Orlov:
''I hope that the US doesn’t plan to attack anyone either, because, given its recent history, this won’t work. Threatening the whole planet and forcing it to use the US dollar in international trade (and destroying countries, such as Iraq and Libya, when they refuse); running huge trade deficits with, virtually, the entire world and forcing reserve banks around the world to buy up US government debt; leveraging that debt, to run up colossal budget deficits (now around a trillion dollars a year); and robbing the entire planet by printing money and spending it on various corrupt schemes — that, my friends, has been America’s business plan since around the 1970s. And it is unraveling before our eyes.''
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank President, Jin Liqun:
“There is not a trade war between the US and China, it is a US trade war against the world.”
Greek philosopher, Sextus Empiricus:
'The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small.'
John Lennon:
“The trouble with the government as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people. It controls them.”
Voltaire:
''So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.''
Mark Twain:
''Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.''
Blogger:
''Dying of radiation sickness, alone in a ditch, in his own vomit and shit, the average Canadian might consider that his life was wasted by living voluntarily in a cartoon universe, but perhaps not even that much, will get through the cast iron of Canadian wilful ignorance and stupidity.''
Friedrich Von Logau, (poem, 'Retribution'):
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War:
“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these fivegive rise to more melodiesthan can ever be heard.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War:
“There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever be seen.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War:
“There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of themyield more flavours than can ever be tasted.”
Sun Tzu:
“Wheels of justice grind slow, but grind fine.”
Margarita Simonian beautifully summarizes the feelings that the West's hatred elicits in the Russian population:
“All your injustice and cruelty, inquisitorial hypocrisy and lies: you forced us to stop respecting you. You and your so-called “values.” We don’t want to live like you live, anymore. For fifty years, secretly and openly, we wanted to live like you, but not any longer. We have no more respect for you, and for those among us that you support, and for all those people who support you. For that, you only have yourself to blame. Our people are capable of forgiving a lot. But we don’t forgive arrogance, and no normal nation would. Your only remaining Empire, would be wise to learn the history of its allies:- all of them, are former empires - to learn the ways they lost their empires. Only because of their arrogance. White man’s burden, my ass!”
(this last sentence in English in the original text – trans.)
Aristotle:
"Money, it must have intrinsic value – independent of any other object, and contained in the money itself."
James Howard Kunstler (On March 23rd, 2018):
"Yesterday’s 724-point dump in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, is liable to not be a fluke event, but the beginning of a cascade into the pitiless maw of reality."
(Newly re-elected, in a record poll turnout, and the highest ever % of the vote) President Putin:
“We are not threatening anyone, not going to attack anyone, or take away anything from anyone, with the threat of weapons... We, do not need anything. Just the opposite.”
“And to those who, in the past 15 years, have tried to accelerate an arms race, and seek unilateral advantage against Russia, have introduced restrictions & sanctions that are illegal from the standpoint of inter- national law -- aiming to restrain our nation’s development, including in the military area -- I will say this: everything you have tried to prevent through such a policy has already happened. No one has managed to restrain Russia.”
“Any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies, weapons of short, medium, or any range at all, will be considered as a nuclear attack on this country. Retaliation will be immediate - with all the attendant consequences. There should be no doubt about this, what-so ever.”
US Deputy Sec. of Defense Bob Work, in Summer 2016:
“Our adversaries [Russia], quite frankly, are pursuing enhanced human operations and it scares the crap out of us.”
The latest (2017) PIRLS tests. Top 10 for primary reading:
1. Russia 2. Singapore 3. Hong Kong 4. Republic of Ireland 5. Finland 6. Poland = Northern Ireland 8. Norway = Taiwan = England
(Scotland and Wales did not take part)
A spokesperson for the UK Government’s Dept of Education:
''As everyone knows, whilst Britain has a world class education system that is the envy of every nation, Russia is a poor country where nothing works and everyone is force-fed a constant diet of Kremlin propaganda. Given that this is the case, we simply refuse to believe that it is possible for Russian children to have better reading results than British children, and it is obvious to us that the explanation for these results must be a more sinister one.”
T.R. Fehrenbach’s This Kind of War - history of 1950-1953 Korean War:
“You may fly over a nation forever, you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life. But if you desire to defend it… you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did: by putting your young men, in the mud.”
Desiderius Erasmus:
''War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.''
German philosopher Hegel:
“What experience and history teach us is this: people and governments, never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
President Xi Jinping:
''We Chinese people do not believe in evil, nor are we afraid of it. We do not make trouble, nor are we afraid of it. No country should ever expect China to trade away its core interests or swallow the bitter fruit that undermines its sovereignty, security and development interests.''
Winston Churchill:
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
Ali Khamenei:
"We can nullify US sanctions, using methods such as eliminating the dollar"
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev:
''The world should not be dominated by one currency. It is necessary to build a new system of international financial relations.''
Hermann Hesse:
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves, doesn't disturb us.”
Abraham Lincoln, November 21st, 1864:
''As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power of the country, will endeavour to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people - until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.''
Ed Flaherty, Iowa City Chapter of Veterans for Peace:
“It is about today, about our pressing need to reverse the war-momentum and to take up the sweet burden of creating lasting peace.”
Dostoevsky:
"it is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas."
Russian Orthodox Elder, Zosima, in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (1881):
“Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things. Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one.”
Blogger:
''There were more native Americans in the Americas than people of Europe, in the 1500s, yet, by 1900, few of the aboriginal people were left. ''
Blogger:
''22 US veterans per day commit suicide. PER DAY, just think about that.''
Charles Bukowski:
“The problem with the world is, the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
Ukrainian nationalist Nikolai Mikhnivsky:
“All people are your brothers, just not Muscovites, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Jews, your enemies, and so on.”
Walid Al-Moualem, Syrian Deputy PM's Statement at the UN General Assembly:
''For more than 6 years, Syrians have made great sacrifices to defend their country, in the face of a terrorist war of unprecedented brutality. The Syrian people have stood their ground against all odds, because they knew that this was a war that sought to eliminate their country & with it, their own existence. They are an example to follow by any people who might face now or in the future, similar attempts to break their will and deny them their freedom and sovereignty.''
VV Putin:
"We will soak them even on their toilets. Our job isn't to judge them, but to send them to God. Let Him sort them out."
Report from the Ron Paul Institute:
"According to the International Organization for Migration, almost 67% of the over 600,000 who went back in the first seven months of this year, returned to Aleppo province."
Libbre David 37:
''To communicate anything to a Goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.''
Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: ''A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them.''
In his 2017 work report to the General Assembly, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres:
"Our world is in trouble. People are hurting and angry. They see insecurity rising, inequality growing, conflict spreading and climate changing."
Thomas Jefferson:
“The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating.”
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres:
"The use of nuclear weapons should be unthinkable. Even the threat of their use can never be condoned."
US commentator, Wil Wheaton:
“If the world was a bar, America would be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar might be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don’t respect him.”
Editorial in China's state-run Global Times:
"If the US and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korea regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so."
Eric Zuesse:
''The only international poll that has asked the question 'Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?' found that, by an over- whelming margin, the US was named by more people throughout the world, than any other. But US citizens chose Iran.''
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri:
"Israel and terrorism are the two main threats that Lebanon and the whole Middle East region are facing today."
Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State:
''Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.''
Blogger:
''The state Department and enablers are the Deep State, but without the gullible and stupid public, they could not exist. These gullible souls, especially the misled "Christians," who like to repeat the inanity "I stand with Israel," are what can be called the Shallow State.''
Nelson Mandela, first black President of South Africa:
"No country can claim to be the policeman of the world and no state can dictate to another what it should do. Those that, yesterday, were friends of our enemies, have the gall today to tell me not to visit my brother Gaddafi. They are advising us to be ungrateful and forget our friends of the past.
"Mister Obama, a person was killed with your direct involvement whom Nelson Mandela called his brother and thanked for help in gaining democracy. True democracy, and not the one invented in the Oval Office."
President James Garfield, 1881; 2nd assassinated US president:
“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce… And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''Love is the current coin of all peoples, in all periods.''
Robert Tressell, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists:
"Poverty is not caused by men and women getting married; it's not caused by machinery; it's not caused by "over-production"; it's not caused by drink or laziness; & it's not caused by "over-population". It's caused by Private Monopoly. That is the present system. They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air - or of the money to buy it..."
US President, Donald Trump:
''The relationship developed by President Xi and myself, I think, is outstanding. We look forward to being together many times in the future. And I believe lots of very potentially bad problems, will be going away.''
Trump's new US Director of Trade, 'Pete' Navarro:
"China is a despicable, parasitic, brass- knuckled and totally totalitarian power.''
John F. Kennedy:
''The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war."
Blogger:
''Just continue the Mexican wall around the entire US circumference, we'll all be happy.''
James Butterfill, ETF Securities:
''If you think... what would be the largest economy in the next 10 years, it could well be China. Ultimately the US has about 200 million people, deemed to be middle class, whereas China by say 2025, will have probably, around 700 million people deemed to be middle class. You can just see where this is going and where consumerism will be based. On current growth rates, it could well achieve that. There has been, perhaps - in our view - too much pessimism over Chinese growth. It does have some problems - such as a considerable credit bubble that it needs to deal with. But, ultimately, it has this very large backdrop of a middle class, that will really drive growth in the coming years.''
Economist Ivan Danilov, on Moody's downgrading of China's sovereign credit rating from Aa3 to A1:
"The US is sending China and Russia a message – that 'all the elements of financial infrastructure that you do not take away from Washington in time --- will be used against you, in time.'It is worth listening to this message, and drawing the right conclusions from these first volleys of this new stage of the global financial war."
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis:
“There has been no change to our continued extraordinary efforts to avoid innocent civilian casualties.”
Belkis Wille, Iraq researcher for Human Rights Watch:
“Remarkably, when I interview families at camps, who have just fled the fighting, the first thing they complain about, is not the 3 horrific years they've spent under ISIS, or the last months of no food or clean water, but the US airstrikes.Many told me that they survived such hardships, and almost made it out with their families,only to lose all their loved ones in a strike, before they had time to flee.”
Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times:
"The hopes of a brave new world of progress, harmony & democracy, raised by the market opening of the 1980s and the collapse of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991, have turned into ashes."
Former USSR President, Gorbachev:
“Plainly speaking, the US has already dragged us into a new Cold War, by trying to openly implement its idea of triumphalism. What’s next? Unfortunately, I cannot be sure that the Cold War will not bring about a ‘hot’ one. I’m afraid they might take the risk.”
President Xi, at the UN Office at Geneva, this January:
"We should advance democracy in international relations and reject dominance by just one, or several, countries. All countries should jointly shape the world's future, write international rules, manage global affairs -- and ensure that development outcomes are shared by all."
Grace Lee Boggs, author, activist, philosopher and feminist:
“Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after.”
"I’ve come to believe that you cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see your- self as belonging to it -- and responsible for changing it."
“At the core of the problem is an obsolete factory model of schooling that sorts, tracks, tests, rejects or certifies working-class children --- as if they were products on an assembly line. The purpose of education, can't be only to increase the earning power of the individual, or to supply workers for the ever-changing slots of the corporate machine.Children need to be given a sense of the'unique capacity of human beings to shape and create reality in accordance with conscious purposes and plans.”
Professor, Practice of Public Policy, Kishore Mahbubani:
“Viewed against the backdrop of the past 1,800 years... the recent period of Western relative over-performance against other civilizations, is a major historical aberration. All such aberrations come to a natural end, and that is happening now.”
Zhang Xiangzhong, forest management official:
"Planting a tree in the soil is a skill, but preserving it for the long term, is an art."
Zhang Weiwei, director, Inst. of China Studies, Fudan University:
"Political legitimacy comes from competence and prosperity,"
Mao Zedong, in 1934:
"We won't have the support of the people, if we cannot strive for the people's benefit."
Xi Jinping, in 2012.
"To meet the people's desire for a happy life ~ is our mission."
UK Tory election campaign guidelines:
''Under no circumstances debate policies or acknowledge Tory failures, just go all out attack on Corbyn.''
Unite union general secretary Len McCluskey:
“Theresa May fought an underhand, depressing campaign and has been well and truly humbled. People do not want Tory business as usual, they do not want a politics built on fear that spreads despair, and they certainly do not want a lame duck prime minister. Credit for this must go to Labour, led by Jeremy Corbyn, which has pulled off the biggest political reawakening of the century."
Algerian writer Kamel Daoud:
"Daesh has a mother, the invasion of Iraq. But it also has a father, the ideological industry of Saudi Arabia."
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in October: "Afghanistan is responsible for 90% of the world’s illicit opiates such as heroin, & opium production increased by 43% just in the past year."
US permanent representative to the UN, Haley:
''America is the moral conscience of the world."
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
"Now it's clear what's happening on the planet: after every demonstration of American conscience, Russia has had to strain its brains to bring the world from the [brink]. Taking a look back at the results of US foreign policy of the last decade, one can assume that Washington is more suited to the role of another 'global' organ…"
"And another thing.. The UN is not an instrument promoting America's or anyone else's values. The UN is a chance given to humanity to prevent new world wars, which come about as a result of an overabundance of feeling, about one's own exclusivity."
Winston Churchill:
"Occasionally, our American friends experience the need to wash their conscience in a bidet. The fact is that later, they make us drink the water. "
Ammar Waqqaf, director, the UK-based think tank Gnosos, commenting on all the US airstrikes on Syrian troops:
“This is being used as a principle, to prevent the Syrian Army from restoring Syrian sovereignty, against rebels, against Daesh [Arabic pejorative term for IS]. In a sense, about a year ago, the US were passively using IS forces to put pressure on the Syrian Army. Now they seem to be actively protecting them, and this is madness.”
Russia's President Putin, on March 1st, 2018:
“There is no reason, after 1991, or certainly after 2000, for the existence of NATO, other than the reason given when NATO was created, by the first secretary general of NATO: [General Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay KG, GCB, CH, DSO, PC, DL] to keep the Russians out, the Germans down, and the Americans in.”
In November 2011, German Minister of Finance, Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble:
“In Germany, at no time since the 8th of May 1945, have we been fully sovereign”.
Blogger:
''Germany is still occupied. Through an agreement the US controls German media, education, and just about everything else, until 2099.''
Hassan Sakr, head of foreign affairs, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party:
"The Americans are still working on the Israeli agenda which is summarized as: dividing the region into religious and ethnic pieces, and this is obvious on their position re the Kurdish referendum."
Political thinker, Shaktiman:
"Is it worth it, to live in a country where you must look over your shoulder 24/7, because some idiot may use explosives to blow up you and your loved ones, to Kingdom Come?
"Is freedom the right to lie and force everyone to call it truth? Is promoting cowardice in our citizenry in the face of tyranny and injustice worth it? Bombing our neighbours in this world and killing their children, has created a mountain of hatred from the world. The US citizen must speak up, or perish.
"Israel has already threatened that if it doesn't get its way, change regimes where Israel and the US so choose and more so to become "Greater Israel", (if one can call it great), then Israel will unilaterally launch nukes against the world."
Pope Francis:
“Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering?...simply for money: money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood."
Sayyed Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader:
“For all those fighting in the ranks of the enemy in Syria, I tell you -- this project is over. Netanyahu visited Putin to beg him, because he fears the defeat of ISIL, for its defeat means Israel’s defeat and the victory of the resistance axis in the region. I call on you to abandon the US/Israeli front and join the resistance front… since the beginning, I have assured you that the resistance axis will never be defeated, neither in Syria nor in Iraq or Yemen."
The Miner’s Next Step, in 1912:
‘All leaders become corrupt, in spite of their own good intentions. They become “gentlemen”, they become MPs and have considerable social prestige because of this power.’
‘As any increase in the power of the rank and file lessens the power and prestige, the leader then has an interest – a vested interest – in stopping progress.’
‘The order and system is based on the suppression of the men, from being independent thinkers, into being “the men” or “the mob”.’
Eric Hobsbawm:
"It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they are not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans."
Malcolm X:
"You just know you're in The South when you cross the Canadian border."
Angela Davis, black, communist, feminist, US intellectual, in 2015:
I think feminism, radical feminism, radical anti-racist and anti-capitalist feminism, helps us to do the reconceptualisation that is necessary, in order to produce a left that is more in line with the vast changes that have occurred in the era of global capitalism, recognising the feminisation of the working class, the structural shifts in the global economy, and the fact that some industries are largely populated by women, industries that rely on reproductive labour, of care industries, domestic service, health care, etc. It seems to me that in many ways unions around the world, are not willing to recognise those changes. To organise the unorganised, at this moment, is to organise women."
Paramhansa Yogananda:
Father, I will drink vitality from the fountains of sunshine.I will drink peace from the silver fountain of mooned nights.I will drink Your power in themighty cupof the wind.I will drink Your consciousness in all the little cups of my thoughts.I will drink Your joy in my joy.I will drink Your Bliss in my blissful thoughts.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, 19/3/2014:
"What has happened in Crimea is a response to the format that made Ukrainian democracy collapse. And there is only one reason for this: the anti- Russian policy of the US and some European countries. They seek to encircle Russia, in order to weaken and eventually destroy it. There is a certain transnational elite that's been cherishing this dream, for 300 years."
Ilya Kharlamov: "On the one hand, NATO has said that a dialogue with Moscow is necessary, mentioning joint threats that could be dealt with together. On the other hand, the bloc has tirelessly spread wild speculations on Moscow's supposedly bloodthirsty plans, which have to be stopped. This is not a mixed message, but a chronic cognitive dissonance."
Vladimir Jabotinsky, Jewish Daily Bulletin, 1935:
“There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it.”
Pope Francis:
“Power is like drinking gin on an empty stomach. You feel dizzy, get drunk, you lose your balance, and you will end up hurting yourself and those around you, if you don’t connect your power with humility and tenderness.”
Admiral Moorer, Chief of US Naval Operations and Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff:
“No American president can stand up to Israel.”
Naim Qassem, Hezbollah's deputy secretary-general, on Palestine:
“One state means war. Two states means peace under their conditions, which will lead us to war.”
Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer:
“Our goal is to make sure that we maintain America’s dominance around the world.”
Conn Hallinan:
"According to the CIA, 'by 2030 Asia will have surpassed N. America and Europe combined in terms of global power --- based on GDP, population size, military spending and technological investments.' By 2025 two-thirds of the world will live in Asia, 7% in Europe, and 5% in the US. Those are the demographics of eclipse."
The Chinese poet, Lao Tzu:
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict; those who predict, don't have knowledge."
Mark Twain:
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Otto von Bismarck:
''We must cultivate among the Ukrainians, a people whose consciousness is altered to such an extent, that they begin to hate everything Russian.''
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:
“The sorrowful story of Palestine and the excruciating sadness felt, because of the oppression against this patient, enduring & resistant nation, truly distresses any individual who seeks freedom, truth & justice, and it thrusts an agonizing pain and suffering upon one’s heart.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan - 'Our Sacred Task':
"The principal thing that the Message has to accomplish in this era, is to create the realization of the divine spark in every soul -- that every soul according to its progress, may begin to realize for itself, the spark of divinity within. This is the task that is before us.
Now you may ask, what is the Message? The Message is this: that the whole of humanity, is as one single body, and all the nations, communities and races, are the different organs, and the happiness and well-being of each of them, is the happiness and well-being of the whole body. If there is one organ of the body in pain, the whole body has to sustain a share of the strain of it. That, by this Message, mankind may begin to think that his welfare and his well-being is not in looking after himself, but it is in looking after others --- and, when in all, there will be reciprocity, love and goodness towards another, the better time will come."
John Swinton (1829–1901), Scots-US journalist, and newspaper publisher:
"There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know before- hand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before 24 hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes".
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad:
"The mainstream media has failed. Their version has been discredited. It is in the alternative media that we must seek the truth."
US writer and investigative historian, Eric Zuesse:
"On 15 August 2007, the BBC headlined “Wikipedia Shows CIA Page Edits,” and Jonathan Fildes reported that, “An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organizations that edit Wikipedia pages, revealed that the CIA was involved in editing entries.” I.e.: What the CIA doesn’t like, they can (and do) eliminate or change."
Ji Xinping:
"Remembering history is to open up to the future ----- forgetting history is a betrayal"
Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard:
“Life can only be understood backwards . . . but it must be lived forwards.”
Public Library of US Diplomacy, Sarah Harrison: “Our work, is dedicated to making sure history belongs to everyone.”
Italian psychoanalyst, Dr. Roberto Assagioli, on the effect of watching Western Television:
"Like drinking mental poison!"
Psychologist Stanley Milgram:
''Often it's not so much the kind of person a man is, as the kind of situation in which he finds himself, that determines how he will act.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
"Peace is perfected activity; that is perfect which is complete in all its aspects, balanced in each direction and under complete control of the will."
Kurt Koch, president, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity:
"We should not fear a strong Islam, but a weak Christianity."
The head of the Synodal Dept. for Church & Society Relations (Moscow Patriarchate), Vsevolod Chaplin:
“Any fight against terrorism is moral; we can even call it a holy fight. Secularism will never be able to cope with the challenge of religious fanaticism and extremism coming to Europe today. Secularism will always lose to religious or pseudo-religious extremism. Even if secularism successfully beats off religious and public radicalism with the help of power and money for some time, it won’t last long, only for 20-30 years.”
Pope Francis:
"We need to embrace technological transformations of the economy and of life, without resigning ourselves to the ideology that seems to be gaining a foothold wherever one looks, and which envisions a world in which only half, or maybe two-thirds, of employable people actually work and the others are maintained with a welfare cheque. Without work one can survive, but to live, you need work.”
Paul Craig Roberts, economist:
"I am convinced that if robotics is going to supplant human labour, patents will have to be socialized, and income distributed on a relatively equal basis, throughout society."
Voltaire:
"To learn who rules over you --- simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise."
- President Petro Poroshenko (Waltman) – Jew. - Acting President Turchinov (Kogan) – Jew. Prime Minister – Yatsenyuk (Buckeye) - Jew. - Minister of Finance – Alexander Shlapak– Jew. Secretary of Council of NAT. security and defence – Andrew Parubiy – Jew, a homosexual. Vice Prime Minister – Vladimir Groisman– a Jew. - Interior Minister Arsen Avakov – Armenian Jew, a homosexual. - Minister of Culture – Sergei Nischuk - Jew, Mason, homosexual. - Director of the national Bank – Stepan Kubiv – Jew. - Head of administration of President - Sergey Pashinskiy– Jew. Opposition: - Julia Tymoshenko (Celia, Walter) was a Jew. - Vitali Klitschko (Etinzon) – a Jew by his father. - Oleg Tyagnibok (frotman) – a Jew by the mother. - Dmitry (Avdimou) Yarosh– Jew, the Hasid. The oligarchs in Ukraine – all Jews: I. Kolomoisky, E. Horowitz, G. Bogolyubov, P. Poroshenko, Firtash, Sergei Levochkin, V. Gaiduk, V. Nemirovsky, K. Zhevago, V. Pinchuk, E. Prutnik, A. Martynov, V. Kostelman, E. Segal, B. Kolesnikov, A. Feldman,
In the Ukrainian government there are no Ukrainians. Draw your own conclusion.
Paul Craig Roberts, economist:
"Frontline journalists, such as Chris Hedges, who have seen and reported a lot, have concluded that the fate of the world is in such few hands that act only in their narrow self-interests, that only revolution can correct the imbalance between the interest of a handful of oligarchs and the mass of humanity. Hedges’ position is not an easy one with which to argue."
Syria's president Assad:
''Our optimism starts with a possible improvement in relations between the US and Russia -- not between Russia and the West, because the European Union does not exist on the political map."
Russia's President Putin:
"America is the only country to use a nuclear weapon on an unarmed country - one which didn't have nuclear weapons. Did you expect us to forget this, to just wipe it out of our minds? - No."
The former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua, and former President of the UN General Assembly, Father Miguel D’Escoto:
“What the U.S. government is doing in Syria is tantamount to a war of aggression, which, according to the Nuremberg Tribunal, is the worst possible crime a State can commit against another State.”
Former US President Jimmy Carter says, of his own country:
"Now it’s just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or being elected president. And the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. Senators and congress members."
Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels:
"The English follow the principle that, when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous."
In 2012, then President, Dmitry Medvedev, said about CIA dirty tricks on Communist Zyuganov --- after Yeltsin's 2nd-round win of 54% to 40%:
"There is hardly any doubt who won[the '96 vote].It was not Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin."
President Assad of Syria:
"The blood of our soldiers is on the hands of the hirers of murderers. These people who created, supported, and armed, these beasts in human form, calling them the ‘opposition’, to justify themselves to their own conscience and to their voters."
"Yes, the blood of our soldiers is on your hands, ladies and gentlemen, the patrons of terrorists from the US, UK, France and other countries, and their bands of sympathizers."
In response to JFK’s assassination, President Truman - who set up the CIA - wrote publicly:
“I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose & operations of our Central Intelligence Agency — the CIA.”
“I decided to set up a special organization charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every available source (the Departments of State, Defense, Commerce, Interior), and to have those reports reach me as President --- without any department “treatment” or interpretations.”
"The most important thing about this move --- was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or lead the President into unwise decisions and I thought it was necessary that the President do his own thinking and evaluating.”
“For some time, I've been disturbed by the way that the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and, at times, a policy-making arm of Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.”
“I never had any thought, when I set up the CIA, that it would be injected into peacetime cloak & dagger operations. Some of the complications & embarrassment, I think we have experienced, are, in part, attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role, that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue—and a subject for cold war enemy propaganda.”
“But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment, as the intelligence arm of the President.”
Mark Taliano, writer:
“Syria was prosperous, with a growing economy. It had food sovereignty, with a “strategic” stock of millions of tons of high quality wheat, not the “Franken-food” bio-tech variety; it had a strong central bank with no usurious IMF loans; it had a popular, reformer President; it had a mostly well-educated, secular, pluralist, forward- looking population; and it was the fourth safest country in the world.”
President Truman, in 1964, publicly wrote:
“The CIA was set up by me for the sole purpose of getting all the available information to the President. It was not intended to operate as an international agency engaged in strange activities.”
Lakhdar Brahimi, ex UN & Arab League Special Envoy to Syria, after he had resigned in 2014:
“Everybody had their agenda andthe interests of Syria's people,came second,third,or not at all.”
US psychologist, Timothy Leary, on watching Western television:
"The plug-in drug."
Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, President, the International Centre of Geopolitical Analysis:
"If the data on the Russia-NATO power balance in the Western direction is analyzed, as well as the military activity build-up rate at our borders, the scale of combat equipment deployment, if the grade of Russia demonization is estimated, one can say that preparation to a real war is taking place. [Such] acts are usually under- taken at the forefront of a war [and it is evident] that the US is preparing for a [potential] nuclear conflict......"
Vladimir Putin, at Petersburg economic forum:
“Russia does not want war and does not intend to start a war. But - today - Russia can see that the explosion of a global war is almost unavoid- able & is prepared, and will continue preparing. Russia doesn't want a war, but is not afraid of a war. Those who get Russia involved in this process, will learn the real meaning of pain.”
Mark Taliano, writer:
“The Western assault on this country... is an assault on our common humanity and an assault on Syria’s progressive and forward-looking future.”
Petrol station sign in Johannesburg:
"If we can 'rest in peace', why can't we live in peace?"
Mark Taliano, writer:
“Syria’s stand against the Western agencies of death and destruction, is a stand for all of humanityagainst the dark forces that fester beneath our politicians’ empty words and the courtesan media’s toxic lies.”
Fidel Castro's farewell in his last official appearance at the 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party on April 19th, 2016:
"I'll be 90 years old soon. Soon I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban communists, will remain as proof on this planet, that if they are worked at with fervour and dignity, they can produce the material and cultural goods that humans need and we need to fight without truce to obtain them."
President of the International Institute for Scientific Cooperation, Elena Ponomareva:
"In the USSR, people were willing to die for their ideas. In 1989, the Soviet leadership surrendered in disgrace, although it was not Gorbachev's team, that had created the great Soviet Union. As soon as the USSR was deprived of its strategic vision and the global project it had been implementing, the country lost its power instantly."
Mohammed Ali:
“I’ve never seen 100 nationalities getting along in peace, and done better than these people have. As far as what they believe or what they worship - that’s their business. But truth is truth - I saw nothing but peace & tranquillity. I think that this should be promoted more. These people don’t want anything, but peace: they don’t want any trouble, they don’t have violence in the streets, or among the peoples. Their leader Mr. Brezhnev, is a peaceful, humble man.”
Fidel Castro:
“Just ideas will triumph, or disaster will triumph.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin:
“Many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization. They're denying moral principles & all traditional identities, national, cultural, religious, and even secular. They are implementing policies, that equate families with same-sex partnerships, worship of God with worship of Satan. I am convinced, that this opens a direct path to degradation and primitivism, resulting in a profound demographic & moral crisis.”
Seneca:
''Anyone who rises to his feet even stronger after a fall, can hardly be said, to have fallen at all.''
Sahra Wagenknecht, Vice President of Germany's Leftist Party, said in Parliament, on November 23rd, to Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel:
"Where does political Islam have its most important basis? These are the Islamic dictatorships on the Gulf, which finance & upgrade terrorist murder bands, worldwide. According to the Federal Government's own findings, it is also Turkey, which plays a key role in the organization and arming of terrorists. We find it astonishing that the Christian-social anti-Islamic militants from Bavaria do not seem to mind at all, that in the first half of 2016, Turkey outstripped 25th place in the ranking countries of German armaments exports, & that Saudi Arabia & Qatar too, have more German arms than ever before. What kind of mad politics is this?"
Barack Obama:
“I believe in American exceptionalism with every fibre of my being.”
Minna Thomas Antrim:
"Between flattery and admiration, there often flows a river of contempt."
Former US President Jimmy Carter, on the US Supreme Court's decision to enable unlimited secret money (including foreign cash) to pour into the US' political and judicial campaigns:
"It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribes being the essence of getting the nominations for president, or being elected president. And the same thing applies to governors, and US Senators and congress members. So... now we’ve just seen a subversion of our political system, as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect, and sometimes get, favors for themselves, after the election's over. At the present time the incumbents, Democrats & Republicans, look upon this unlimited money --- as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody that's already in Congress, has a great deal more to sell.”
(He was then cut off by the program.)
Bertrand Russell:
"Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer. This has been my life; I found it worth living."
M. Cartmill:
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
Mark Twain:
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Douglas Adams:
"Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there's a huge difference between disliking somebody -- maybe even disliking them a lot -- and actually shooting them, or strangling them, dragging them through the fields, and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive, from day to day."
Bertrand Russell:
"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
Writing for the E.U.'s Institute for Security Studies, Thomas Ries, Swedish Inst. of International Affairs:
“The percentage of the population who are poor and frustrated will continue to be very high, the tensions between this world and the world of the rich will continue to rise, with the corresponding consequences. Since we will hardly be able to overcome the origin of this problem by 2020, i.e., the functional defects of society, we will have to protect ourselves more strongly.”
Bertrand Russell:
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
Albert Einstein:
"The purest form of madness is to leave everything as it is... and just hope that something changes."
Sun Tzu:
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
Albert Einstein:
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Carl Sagan:
"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant --- God must be even greater than we dreamed"? Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way." A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe, as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe, hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge."
Calvin and Hobbes:
"Oh, greatest of mass media, thank you for elevating emotion, reducing thought, and stifling imagination. Thank you for the artificiality of quick solutions and for the insidious manipulation of human desires, for commercial purposes. This bowl of lukewarm tapioca represents my brain. I offer it in humble sacrifice. Bestow thy flickering light forever."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
"Uneducated people delight in argument & fault- finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity. Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything. In religion, it is equally easy to say that this or that is superstition, but it is infinitely more difficult to comprehend the truth which it contains."
Carl Sagan:
"Is our self-esteem so precarious... that nothing short of a universe custom-made for us will do?"
St. Augustine:
"Often, a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances,... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive & disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming what he is saying, is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can, to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn."
Andrew Kuchins, Russia expert at Georgetown University and former head of Carnegie Moscow Centre, in a new report on US-Russian relations:
"The risk of a nuclear conflict may be higher today -- than at any time since the 1980s. Unfortunately, societies and political establishments seem, in large part, unaware.... that this truly existential threat has [returned]."
Former US president Dwight D. Eisenhower:
“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”
Mark Twain:
"If you don’t read newspapers you are uninformed. But if you do read them, you are misinformed."
Truth teller Edward Snowden:
"If we want to have a better world we can’t hope for an Obama, and we should not fear a Donald Trump. Rather, we should build it ourselves."
President Putin, in 2012:
"The key feature of the new era, is that no single country can cope with global problems in the economy and politics on its own. Risks will prevail, if each goes ahead with playing their own game, if the delusion that chaos can be kept under control, is not brushed aside."
XI JINPING:
"We must learn to live in a different way from before --- we can no longer tolerate a world where the principle is of winner takes all --- but, instead, win-win cooperation and an understanding that no country can exist alone, or be above others.
"China's own stability and prosperity rests on the stability and prosperity of her neighbours, such as Russia and others across the world: this is also evident, in that, what 1 country needs, only another country can provide better, and vice versa, and only with cooperation towards each other's needs, can we live and prosper peacefully...
"if history has taught us anything -- it is that in each of us there is something of the other, and the world needs to act accordingly".
Scandinavia:
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton walk in to a bar.
Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says, “The media's really tearing you apart for that Scandal.”
Hillary: “You mean my lying about Benghazi?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the massive voter fraud?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the military not getting their votes counted?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Using my secret private server with classified material to Hide my Activities?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything Else?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, Hiring Cronies, And taking bribes from foreign countries?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the drones being operated in our own country without The Benefit of the law?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million, and right afterwards it Declared Bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?”
Hillary: “Being the mastermind of the so-called “Arab Spring” that only brought chaos, death and destruction to the Middle East and North Africa?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Leaving four Americans to die in Benghazi?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “The funding and arming of terrorists in Syria, the destruction and destabilization of that nation, giving the order to our lapdogs in Turkey and Saudi Arabia to give sarin gas to the “moderate” terrorists in Syria that they eventually used on civilians, and framed Assad, and if not for the Russians and Putin, we would have used that as our pretext to invade Syria, put a puppet in power, steal their natural resources, and leave that country in total chaos, just like we did with Libya?
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “The creation of the biggest refugee crisis since WWII?”
Trump: “No the other one:”
Hillary: “Leaving Iraq in chaos? ”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The DOJ spying on the press?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance Executives?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Giving our cronies in SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 months later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The NSA monitoring citizens’ ?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The State Department interfering with an Inspector General Investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Threats to all of Bill’s former mistresses to keep them quiet?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean the INSIDER TRADING of the Tyson chicken deal I did where I invested $1,000 and the next year I got $100,000?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean when Bill met with Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, just before my hearing with the FBI, to cut a deal?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: ” You mean the one where my IT guy at Platte River Networks asked Reddit for help to alter emails?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean where the former Haitian Senate President accused me and my foundation of asking him for bribes?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean that old video of me laughing as I explain how I got the charges against that child rapist dropped by blaming the young girl for liking older men & fantasizing about them. Even though I knew the guy was guilty?
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean that video of me coughing up a giant green lunger into my drinking glass then drinking it back down?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean that video of me passing out on the curb and losing my shoe?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean when I robbed Bernie Sanders of the Democratic Party Nomination by having the DNC rig the nomination process so that I would win?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “You mean how so many people that opposed me have died in mysterious ways?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “Travel Gate? When seven employees of the White House Travel Office were fired so that friends of Bill and mine could take over the travel business? And when I lied under oath during the investigation by the FBI, the Department of Justice, the White House itself, the General Accounting Office, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, and the Whitewater Independent Counsel?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “The scandal where, (while I was Secretary of State), the State Department signed off on a deal to sell 20% of the USA’s uranium to a Canadian corporation that the Russians bought, netting a $145 million donation from Russia to the Clinton Foundation and a $500,000 speaking gig for Bill from the Russian Investment Bank that set up the corporate buyout? That scandal?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “That time I lied when I said I was under sniper fire when I got off the plane in Bosnia?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “That time when after I became the First Lady, I improperly requested a bunch of FBI files so I could look for blackmail material on government insiders?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “That time when Bill nominated Zoe Baird as Attorney General, even though we knew she hired illegal immigrants and didn’t pay payroll taxes on them?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “When I got Nigeria exempted from foreign aid transparency guidelines despite evidence of corruption because they gave Bill $700,000 in speaking fees?”
Trump” “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “That time in 2009 when Honduran military forces allied with rightist lawmakers, ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, and I as then-Secretary of State sided with the armed forces and fought global pressure to reinstate him?”
Trump: “No, the other one.”
Hillary: “I give up! … Oh wait, I think I’ve got it! When I stole the White House furniture, and silverware, when Bill left Office?” Trump: “THAT’S the one!
Lord Acton:
“…the issue which has swept down the centuries and will have to be fought, sooner or later, is the people versus the banks.”
The US Constitution:
"Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof."
(Ex)Federal Reserve Chair, Alan Greenspan:
"The Federal reserve is an independent agency and that means, basically, that there's no other agency of government that can overrule the actions we take."
Andrew Jackson (Trump's hero) 10 July 1832:
"It is not our own citizens only who are to receive the bounty of our Government. More than eight millions of the stock of this bank, are held by foreigners. Is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that, in its nature, has so little to bind it to our country? Controlling our currency, receiving our public moneys, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence --- it would be more formidable and dangerous than the naval and military power of the enemy."
Josiah Stamp director, Bank of England, 1928:
“If you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and to pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.”
Rockefeller’s General Education Board in 1906:
“We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers, or men of learning, or men of science. We shall not search for embryonic great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, or statesmen, of whom, we have an ample supply.”
Chris Hedges:
"Voltaire was the most famous man of the 18th century. Today the most famous “person” is Mickey Mouse."
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil."
Eduard Popov:
"Restoring the violated principle of national sovereignty instead of the idea of 1 nation’s global domination, restoring the ‘blooming complexity’ of the world’s cultures instead of an imposed & dull liberal “post-culture”, & affirming solid moral principles, instead of immoral promiscuity --- this is a sample program, which is shared by the majority of humans. Most of humanity is opposed to the dominant quasi-religion of US neo -liberalism --- or, rather, the ideology of Pax Americana, is opposed to the majority of humanity."
Historian & political scientist, Andrei Fursov:
"The problem is.. America consumes far more than it produces. With only 5% of the world's population, the US consumes 40% of world output, and produces 70% of the world's waste. It is clear that, sooner or later, Americans will be forced to cut their overconsumption."
Thomas Jefferson:
"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately -- by the grace of God."
Vladimir Putin:
“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”
Hillary Clinton:
"The United States is an exceptional nation."
F. William Engdahl:
"US elections are no longer democratic. Elections are rigged;- the electronic voting machines can be programmed. Any semblances of democracy that used to be there, up to the 1970s, are gone."
Jacob G. Hornberger:
"US officials just arrested a national-security state official, and charged him with stealing US national-security state secrets. What are the secrets he stole? He stole secret codes that enable US officials to hack into the computers of foreign regimes!"
Noam Chomsky in 'Media Control', 2002:
"One of the questions asked in the study was, 'How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate there were during the Vietnam war?' The average reply, on the part of Americans today, is about 100,000. The official figure is about 2 million. The actual figure is probably 3 - 4 million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: 'What would we think of German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture?'"
Jim Morrison, of The Doors:
"Whoever controls the media controls the mind."
Paul Street, US journalist:
"The most essential (& insidious) service in support of the corporate system, comes from traditionally 'liberal left' 'vanguards', most notably the UK's Guardian newspaper. They perform the vital function of bringing self-described liberals into the pro-interventionist (pro-war) camp -- a function the right-wing press would have no hope of accomplishing."
Ex-Guardian journalist Jonathon Cook, on the MSM: (Main Stream Media)
"It is okay to criticise individual western policies as flawed, especially if done so respectfully, but not to suggest that the whole direction of western foreign policy is flawed - that it is intended to maintain a system of control over and exploitation of weaker nations. Policies can be dubious, but not our leaders’ moral character."
Simon Wood, journalist:
"Much is made of the 'fact' that the news- paper is owned & run by The Scott Trust, originally created in 1936 “to safeguard the title’s journalistic freedom.” But the Guardian isn't owned by a trust at all. In 2008, the trust was replaced by a limited company that was re-named “The Scott Trust Limited.”
"Though not a trust at all, but simply a profit-making company, it is still referred to frequently as ‘The Scott Trust,’ promulgating the widely-held but mistaken belief in the Guardian’s inherently benign ownership structure."
Simon Wood, journalist:
"The role of the corporate media is to protect, promote and legitimize, the destructive and amoral aims of profit-seeking private power.
"Any journalist or columnist working within that system is actively aiding the corporate media achieve this goal. These gatekeepers, espec- ially those regarded as liberal, are therefore culpable in the illegal wars and rapacious, planet-destroying actions of the worst corporations.
"A right-thinking journalist of conscience would extricate themselves from the machine, as the aforementioned Jonathon Cook and Nafeez Ahmed have done, along with famed journalists such as John Pilger.
"With enough big names breaking free, the dream of a mass-market, ad-free, donation- based investigative journalism enterprise, employing the best writers, would be one step closer to reality."
Professor Sunaina Maira:
"The myth of a de-occupied Gaza and of the threat of rockets obscures the reality that this is a population that Israel is focused on devastating, starving, and annihilating. Israel wishes to maintain dominance over Palestinians by reducing the “demographic threat”, in the context of a rising Palestinian population, and to undermine any possibility of unity between Hamas and Fatah and of a contiguous, viable Palestinian state.
"The siege of Gaza co-exists with a cantonization of the West Bank, the peripheralization & Judaization of Jerusalem, & the repression & subjugation of Palestinians in Israel. I view this as a condition of settler colonialism, where a settler colonial state aims not just at the displacement and dispossession, but also the elimination, of the indigenous population."
Sergei Mikhailov, senior research fellow at the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies:
"I think, after these elections, the Americans will have a clearer understanding of the gap between their vision of the world --- and the one imposed on them by the political elite."
Reagan’s Secretary of State Alexander Haig: “There are worse things than nuclear war.”
Lt Cl David Mills & Wayne H. Cox, USAF manager's end of year report after Greenham Common peace woman Ann Harrower's leg was crushed, in 1983:
‘The Greenham bylaws went into effect, the superfence was constructed and we hit one peacewoman with a vehicle.’ ‘It has been a productive year. You should be proud of your accomplishments.’
Prince Aleksandr Nevskii in the 13th century:
"Go tell all in foreign lands, that Russia lives! Those who come to us in peace will be welcome as a guest. But those who come to us sword in hand, will die by the sword! On that, Russia stands, and forever will we stand!
Mike Whitney, author:
"The CIA continues to back all manner of dodgy groups (Death squads in Nicaragua and Iraq, neo-Nazis in Ukraine, jihadists in numerous locations) -- provided they help to advance the imperial agenda. National security and the safety of the American people, simply never factor into elite decision making. What drives the policy is oil, power, money and Israel. Nothing else matters."
Blogger on RT:
"Russia has a 1,000-year-long history. US has a 240-year-long criminal record."
Mike Whitney, author:
"The use of proxies has been used to confuse the public about what is really going on in Syria, but the facts are plain to see. The invasion's goal is to replace Bashar al Assad with a US-stooge, splinter the country into multiple parts, and control vital pipeline corridors. Washington wants to create conditions on the ground that forever prevent the reemergence of a strong, secular central government that can openly oppose US commercial interests, US regional hegemony, or pose a threat to Israel. That’s the whole ball o’ wax."
Vladimir Putin:-
"Russia believes that international law - not the right of the strong, must apply. And we believe that every country, every nation, is not exceptional, but unique, original and benefits from equal rights, including the right to independently choose their own development path."
Rick Sterling, investigative journalist & member of Syrian Solidarity Movement:
"Some foreign governments seeking “regime change” in Damascus, have poured huge amounts of money into what is called “smart”, or “soft power”...
"There is the Syrian Justice and Accountability Centre, initiated by Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to prepare for victor’s justice. There's the Syrian Network for Human Rights, which largely ignores the deaths of Syrian soldiers and seeks US/NATO intervention. There is the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, a support group for Al Qaeda/Nusra but most importantly a political lobbying tool, actively campaigning for US/NATO intervention.
"All of these organizations, and many more, are said to be “Syrian” and “independent.” But they were all created after the conflict began and they are all funded by foreign governments that seek to overthrow the Syrian government."
US Defense Intelligence Agency report August 2012:
“THE SALAFIST [sic],THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, AND AQI[“Al Qaeda in Iraq,” now known as ISIS or the Islamic State]ARE THE MAJOR FORCES DRIVING THE INSURGENCY IN SYRIA.”
Mike Whitney, author:
"We need to realize, our approach to terrorism is all wrong. Terrorism can't be defeated by nipping at the edges, or killing individual agents or groups. That hasn’t worked & that won’t work. The cancer has to be eradicated at its source, which, in all probability means either dismantling or reigning in, the CIA, and bringing its deep-state paymasters to justice. That is how one wins the war on terror."
Bentham:
"US exceptionalism is nothing but a euphemism for immunity, discrimination and propaganda -- to excuse and defend war crimes by the US Corporation."
Ursula Haverbeck:
"The key to the demon mind is its ability to broad- cast fake realities into the minds of the sheople and broadcast the fake effects to sheople, as happily agreeing with and complying with it. Sheople can't think, they can go along with the herd on TV, that's its tool in a nutshell."
Hillary Clinton:
“The transition to democracy in Syria has begun.”
Jose Marti:
“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.”
Daniel Kovalik Int. Human Rights teacher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law:
"There is no doubt that the US has proven itself to be of the latter kind; indeed, the very nature of US foreign policy is destruction. Given this, it's at best foolish and naïve, for people of any political stripe -- but particularly self-defined leftists -- to put any stock in the notion that the US is acting in the defense of human rights, or democracy, or any such lofty goals, in intervening militarily abroad.
"There is only one proper goal then, of people of good will:- to oppose US military intervention, with every fibre of our being."
Tacitus:
"They make a desert, and call it peace."
Thomas Jefferson:
"I tremble for my country... when I consider that God is just."
US President Dwight D Eisenhower, ending a final address to his people:
"We pray that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together, in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war - as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years - I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight."
Andrey Fursov, analyst:
"We can hardly forget the events of September 11th - since this provocation forged the last, desperate offensive by the most aggressive segment of the Anglo-American elite - seeking to save itself at the expense of the majority of humanity."
Former Green Beret soldier who served in Syria:
"No one on the ground believes in this mission or this effort -- they know we are just training the next generation of jihadis -- so they are sabotaging it, saying, ‘F*ck it, who cares?’ I don't want to be responsible for Nusra guys saying they were trained by Americans.”
Chalmers Johnson, analyst and CIA veteran:
"The Patriot Act, adopted on October the 26th, 2001, dramatically increased the powers of investigating authorities, strengthened control over the US population, and gave a leg up to police arbitrariness. Thus, in the name of fighting terrorism, a police state was institutionalized in the United States."
Journalists John Stanton and Wayne Madsen:
"As often happens in history, an event solving short -term issues, creates medium-term challenges. To solve the problem of the medium-term, medium- term measures are necessary, which, in turn, generate long-term, systemic problems, which cannot be resolved without changing the system."
Pope Francis:
“The progressive transformation of the entrepreneur into a speculator, is an economic illness. The speculator is the same as a mercenary, who has no company and sees workers only as a means to make profits,"
Jeremy Corbyn, January the 6th, 2012: "Left parties have lost office in Europe because of their inability to articulate an alternative to austerity and cuts.
"The right offers individualism, a huge and growing wealth gap and a mean and divided society.
"Socialism is --- the sharing of wealth, the contribution of ability for the common good, and unity in defending our achievements against attack. It's also our only hope."
Frank Field's quotation here shows him up for what he is: an elitist who holds the members in total contempt.
Owen Smith's hero, Aneurin Bevan:
“The right wing of the Labour party would rather see it fall into perpetual decline, than abide by its democratic decisions.”
Relationship psychologist Oliver James:
"The only way out is the one that, thank goodness, will now be taken --- which is to get rid of the right wing Blatcherites who make up three quarters of the Parliamentary Labour Party. A bunch of, you know, people like Caroline Flint. Second rate, low grade politicians. The sort of detritus. The rubbish that’s been cleared out and left at the end of new Labour."
Aneurin Bevan:
“Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets”
Aneurin Bevan:
"If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution."
Vladimir Putin:
"The meaning of our whole life and existence is love. This is a multifaceted phenomenon; it lies at the heart of any of our behaviours."
Aneurin Bevan:
"It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East, by jeopardizing the peace of the world."
Gaddafi:
“The only mistake I made was trusting the Americans and the Westerners.”
George Carlin:
"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
Sir John Sawyers, MI6:
"The American unipolar world existed for a short while -- and is already finished."
US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard:
“Escalating the war to overthrow Assad will make things even worse. It will cause more suffering and chaos and strengthen ISIS and Al-Qaeda to the point where they may be able to take over all of Syria. This would be disastrous, including a genocide against religious minorities, secularists, atheists, and anyone who refuses to accept the extremist Wahabi theology. The refugee crisis will increase exponentially, and it could lead to a direct confrontation with Russia.”
(ex) US President Obama:
"My patience ran out on President Assad a long time ago."
US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard:
"The war on Syria is illegal and counter-productive."
(ex) US President Obama:
“For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside.”
The United States Peace Council (USPC):
"It is one thing for Syria's people to oppose their government if they choose to. It is another thing for foreigners to take the position of “Assad must go!” The latter is a clear imperialist demand that violates the international law."
German think tank, Firil Centre For Studies:
"Approximately 360,000 foreign terrorist mercenaries fought in Syria, against the legitimate government of Syria, between April 10, 2011 and January 31, 2016."
Modern Olympics' founder, Pierre de Coubertin:
“We shall have no peace until the prejudices which now separate the different races shall have been outlived.”
Sadiq Khan, 29th of June, 2016:
"I've said it loudly and clearly, and I'll say it again. I'm not going to get involved in the leadership contest".
Sadiq Khan, August 21st, 2016:
"I think Owen Smith is the right leader for our party."
Mr Anthony Blair:
'We are all Thatcherites now'.
Ms Garcia claimed for benefits after her marriage had broken down, and she’d been forced to give up her job in finance to look after her 3 children. She had been struggling to pay her rent, and contacted the DWP, to see what support she could receive... Ann Goode, of the Jobcentre Plus office, Bromley:
"None of these names - Miss Cecilia Garcia - None of them are English names… why are we running around for these people? Do you know I resent even doing this work because if I had a person who said: ‘I really want a job, I want to go on your caseload’, yes, all the time, every day of the week. But not some scrounging b*****d that’s popping out kids like pigs."
Ken Loach, prize-winning film director:
“I hope that people will recognise the impact that the state is having on people who're in need of financial support and being put through a system, in which, they are almost set up to fail.”
“A classic case in point is a doctor can say you are not fit to work but the state insists on assessing you again – they have picked an American multi-national to do the assessing; they are not doctors, but health professionals, using a series of questions that they reel off.
“They use a points system that makes a sick man or woman have to keep looking for work – it is consistently cruel.”
Anonymous:
"99.99% of UK politicians... give the rest a bad name."
Anonymous:
"One UK MP claimed for a bag of manure on expenses. So, he was taking the sh*t as well as the p*ss."
July 1st, China's Communist Party Chair, Xi Jinping:
"The world is on the verge of radical change. We see how the European Union is gradually collapsing, as is the US economy -- it is all over for the new world order. So, it will never again be as it was before, in 10 years we will have a new world order, in which the key will be, the union of China and Russia. "
Dresden James:
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
July 1st, China's Communist Party Chair, Xi Jinping:
"We are now seeing the aggressive actions on the part of the United States, regarding both Russia and China. I believe that Russia & China could create an alliance toward which NATO will be powerless and which will put an end to the imperialist desires of the West."
Syria's President Assad:
"Russian politics is not based on making deals. It's based on values."
Russia's President Putin:
"We are not only able to feed ourselves, taking into account our lands and water resources - Russia is able to become the largest world supplier of healthy, ecologically clean and high-quality food, that Western producers have long lost - especially given the fact that demand for such products in the world market, is steadily growing,"
Anonymous:
"A UK woman was sent to hospital after eating a horse meat burger... Her condition is said to be stable."
James Madison:
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations."
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth:
“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, &, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle, will give rise to tragic mishaps.”
Hitler:
“My armored divisions go into enemy countries only after our propaganda deprives its people of the will to resist.”
Sharon Beder:
“The purpose of this propaganda onslaught has been to persuade a majority of people, that it is in their interests to eschew their own power as workers and citizens, and forego their democratic right to restrain and regulate business activity. As a result, the political agenda is now largely confined to policies aimed at furthering business interests.”
Philosopher, Andre Vltchek:
"In the West, people have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of the planet, & violating entire nations & continents. But in Africa, Asia & elsewhere, those "un-people" have no choice at all."
Phil Butler:
"What does Brexit really mean?" In the long term, the only term that counts, Brexit means humanity can take a "U-Turn" --- if need be. People are not ordained to ride a freight train into disaster, but we can if we wish. Brexit is about freedom, more so, than some ruling on same-sex marriage. It is about civilization, about a people deciding self- determination, rather than giving up all to think -tanks and elitist officials, blindly mewing like sheep, until the bitter end. True enough, the banksters and Oligarchs may have concocted the whole scheme, but Brits can make another "U-Turn" if this be the case. Britain has shown the world: people are still the most important commodity, in a world dominated by the money grubbers. Bravo #Brexit voters."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes:
'It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing.
"We know that it does not take ‘everyone on Earth’ to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale."
The great Indian warrior-chief, Sitting Bull:
"There are things they tell us that sound good to hear ---- but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home ---- and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them."
Paul Craig Roberts, 24th of march 2015:
“As far as I can tell from my many media interviews with Russian media, there is no Russian awareness of the Wolfowitz Doctrine. Russians think that there is some kind of misunderstanding about Russian intentions. Russia's media does not understand - that Russia is unacceptable, because Russia is not a US vassal. Russians believe all the Western bullshit about “freedom and democracy” and believe that they're short on both - but making progress. In other words Russians have no idea that they're targeted for destruction. - If the Russians and Chinese do not expect a pre-emptive nuclear attack from Washington, they will be destroyed.”
The US ambassador to Moscow, John F.Tefft:
“We will displace Putin from office and install our own people as leaders of the Russian government.”
President of the International Institute for Scientific Cooperation, Elena Ponomareva:
"Americans constantly proclaim their superiority over other nations, their aspiration to domination. By sheer force of will, they make the whole country work for this idea to become true.However, America has not seen an independent president since the times of Richard Nixon. Obama is hopeless when it comes to political will. American presidents express the will of many multinational & US corporations who fund elections. It is those corporations, who make the core of the US political system, today."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1934:
"One of my principal tasks is to prevent bankers and business- men from committing suicide!"
anonymous:
'When hearts unite, they can break even mountains.'
Andre Vltchek:
"Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), have been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against native populations across North America, barbaric wars of aggression -- against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything at all changed? I highly doubt it. Donald Trump is horrendous, but he is also honest. Both Presidents Clinton & Obama, were great speakers.. but also unrepentant mass murderers."
Sam Adams:
"It is in the interest of Tyrants to reduce the people to Ignorance and Vice. For they cannot live in any Country where Virtue and Knowledge prevail... For this Reason, it is always observable, that those who are combined to destroy the People’s Liberties, practice every Art to poison their Morals".
Adolf Hitler:
"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."
Frederic Bastiat:
"When misguided public opinion honours what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful & discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe."
'Sir' Walter Raleigh's 'History of the World':
“Whosoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world, commands the riches of the world and, consequently, the world itself.”
Halford John Mackinder, in 1904:
“Who rules East Europe, commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland, commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island, commands the world.”
John Halford Mackinder:
"Those who control EURASIA control the WORLD."
Dostoevsky's The Idiot:
“Beauty will save the world.”
Vladimir Putin, Munich Conference on Security Policy, February 2007:
"Let’s say things as they are: one hand distributes charitable help, and the other hand, not only preserves economic back- wardness, but also reaps the profits thereof.
"Increasing social tension in the depressed regions, inevitably results in the growth of radicalism and extremism -- and feeds terrorism and local conflicts.
"And if all this happens in, shall we say, a region like the Middle East, where there is increasingly the sense that the world at large is unfair, then there is the risk of global destabilisation."
Andre Vltchek:
"Russia and China are forming an incredible defensive wall to protect humanity from Western terrorism."
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
"Loving truth, seeking truth, looking for truth, then living the truthful life... opens all doors."
President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin:
"I am the wealthiest man not just in Europe but in the whole world. I collect emotions, I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia – I believe that is my greatest wealth."
Big Wolf of the Lakota, Justin Irwin, who wed a Russian citizen & moved to Russia:
"We now live among the pale-faces with our two children, and are going to build a bath-house and a barn."
US author, researcher and strategic risk consultant, F. William Engdahl:
"The common golden thread binding the 3 great Eurasian cultures & nations, China, Iran, Russia ...is their principled insistence that ------ as with individual human beings, so with nations ------ borders & national sovereignty, are inviolable principles. Their growing cooperation, based on respect for national sovereignty --- may just save the world from self-destruction. That would be to the good."
Justin Irwin (Big wolf):
"The present day Indian isn't afraid of work. A large wigwam for a friendly family, though not on the prairie...... what could be better?"
Political scientist, Leonid Krutakov:
"The conflict in the Middle East produces an excess of 800,000 barrels of oil, daily. As long as these illegal oil channels are still working, it means that someone needs them to work. Any type of illegal oil, cuts oil prices down. There are political forces and transnational companies that profit from this conflict."
Fidel Castro (in 1973!):
"Cuban sanctions will end, when a black president is ruling the US - and the pope is Latin American."
Samuel Huntington:
"The West won the world, not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather, by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
Pavel Shipilin, popular Russian blogger:
"Our interest is the return of the former status of the UN, which must be the only hegemonic pole of the world. Not the USA, not Russia, and not China."
John F. Kennedy:
“Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.”
Winston Churchill:
"No one ever lost a penny betting on American stupidity".
Robert F. Kennedy:
“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle, or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality...... for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”
Milton Friedman (boo!):
"Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available, until the politically impossible, becomes the politically inevitable."
US political analyst Randy Martin (crookedbough.com):
“The Greek crisis has been going on for 5 years ... and more. You can bet that Washington has already drawn up plans on how to administer Europe politically & financially, if the situation demands that intervention. And that situation is becoming more and more apparent, almost by the day.”
Groucho Marks:
“I find television very educational & entertaining. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book.”
US political analyst Randy Martin:
“Don’t forget that the NATO military alliance of 28 members is really just US military power --- outsourced in various European disguises. NATO formations across Europe, are therefore tantamount to US military occupation of Europe. This is exactly what Russian government figures have, perceptively, been saying, for a long time.”
Dan Glazebrook:
"Yugoslavia dismembered; its resources plundered at the expense of its desperate and impoverished people; & Kosovo turned into a provider of shock troops for regime change in Syria, & a transit hub for heroin & organ trafficking. If this is what NATO calls a success, we must all pray for failure."
Russian scientist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev:
"Divided, they will destroy us immediately. Our strength is in unity, in the army, in benevolent nepotism, in multiplying the peoples' gains, and in the natural growth of our inner wealth and love for peace."
Sun Tzu:
"The supreme art of war, is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Sun Tzu:
"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
Sun Tzu:
"The war should be fought swiftly to avoid economic losses: no long war ever profited any country."
Charles Wilson, CEO of Ford, in 1945:
"America needs a permanent war economy."
Johann von Goethe:
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
US political analyst Randy Martin:
“What is taking shape in Europe and more so in the United States, is the complete subjugation of government by finance capital. It is not an exaggeration or empty jargon to say that we in the West, are succumbing to the rule of financial fascism.”
Chris Lowe:
"Stupidity, combined with arrogance and a huge ego, will get you a long way."
1925 US school biology textbook ('A Civic Biology Presented In Problems'):
"The Races of Man. At the present time there exist upon the earth five races … the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America."
Michael Moore:
"I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement ------ to resolve all our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To have to sit down and actually talk, to listen, to compromise ------ that's hard work."
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn:
“The experience of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya has convinced many of our own people that the elite’s enthusiasm for endless military interventions has only multiplied the threats to us --- while leaving death and destabilisation in their wake. It is the conflict in Syria and the consequences of the Iraq war which have created the conditions for Isis to thrive and spread its murderous rule.”
Aisha Gaddafi (his daughter and heir):
"Gaddafi is not in Libya, he is in the hearts of Libyans".
William Pollard:
"The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday, will be sufficient for tomorrow."
The Centre for American Security:
"The era of unchallenged US dominance of space, is over."
Moshe Safdie:
"He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression, shall fall into the pit of arrogance."
Samuel Butler:
"The truest characteristics of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance."
Thomas Sankara:
"Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers, who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from a club of those who have the right to veto, is unjust - & should be ended."
Richard Hammond:
"I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed ---- are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am."
Steffi Graf:
"You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose, is respect for others."
(ex) UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon:
“The future of President Assad must be decided by the Syrian people. I think it's totally unfair & unreasonable to paralyze all this political negotiation. This is not acceptable. It is not fair. Many Western countries oppose the Syrian government position. Meanwhile, we have lost years. 250,000 people, have been killed. There are 13 million refugees, or internally displaced. Over 50% of hospitals, schools and infrastructure, has been destroyed in Syria.”
US National Lawyers Guild's Robin Alexander:
“The US would do well to incorporate some of the security checks & practices that are routine in Venezuela - to improve both the level of participation, and the credibility, of our elections.”
Abraham Lincoln:
“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”
(ex) President Obama on October 3rd, 2015:
“We’re not going to make Syria a proxy war between the United States and Russia.”
Nikhil Saluja Quotes: "You will always see what's wrong when you are right. But you will never see what is right, when you are happy doing wrong."
Anonymous:
People of high attitude, deserve the standing ovation of your highest finger
Nikhil Saluja Quotes: "My girlfriend hates when I make jokes about her weight. She really needs to lighten up."
Anonymous:
It's one thing, if a person owns up to their behaviour and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go.
Sigmund Freud -- after his visiting professor tenure in the US:
"I came to America, meeting a generation of neurotic paranoids. I left America ---- seeing a generation of violent lunatics."
President Putin:
"...be in harmony with nature, and build societies that obey the laws of nature".
Wikileaks’ book (7th Chapter) concludes:
“Instead of wasting time and resources lamenting the effects of the cables on international relations and harassing Wikileaks, the United States needs to overhaul its foreign policy. Continuing to view a state such as Russia as a rival in a zero-sum game --- as well as an energy resource and an emerging market --- instead of as representing a people, only perpetuates conflict.”
A politically correct woman turned on a man who opened a door for her. "There's no need to hold the door for me, just because I'm a lady," she declared. "I didn't do it because you're a lady," he replied calmly; "I did it because I'm a gentleman".
Former EU Commissioner Günter Verheugen:
"Peace is possible only if no one wants to dominate the other."
US President 'Teddy' Roosevelt:
"The Pacific shall be ours forever and the Philippine islands shall be ours forever, from which, we shall take the mainland of asia, to dominate".
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, in Bejing:
"In this venue I announce my separation from the US --- both militarily and in economics."
President Putin:
"We can't be a country that trades people like commodities, to make the pockets of a few people happy. If we do - once we follow that path - we are finished as a country".
Oxfam, on the European Union:
“Political decisions are influenced more and more by rich elites, who twist the rules to their advantage & undermine political institutions. Austerity policies and unjust tax systems serve the powerful through- out Europe.”
J. M. Keynes:
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things --- for the greatest good of everyone."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, & I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nutcases want to be president".
US President 'Teddy' Roosevelt:
"Walk softly, and carry a big stick."
Napoleon:
"The moral is to the physical as 3 is to 1"
UK Foreign Affairs Committee on Syria:
"The strategy is 'incoherent' and air-strikes could be illegal if not authorised by the UN."
Pope Francis:
"The important thing is not to run on our own. We need to run together, with the ball being passed from hand to hand."
Napoleon:
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."
CIA Director William Casey (1st staff meeting, 1981):
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes, is false."
Vladimir Putin, to the UN, in September 2015:
"Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster -- and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?"
Dimitry Orlov, of cluborlov.blogspot, says a better translation of Putin's quote is:
"“How can you, even now, fail to understand what a mess you have made?”
US House Intel. Committee Chair, Devin Nunes:
“I think we are containing IS within the borders of Iraq & Syria. Outside of that we’re not doing much.”
Lord Palmerston's famous aphorism (in full):
"Therefore I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests, it is our duty to follow. When we find other countries marching in the same course, and pursuing the same objects as ourselves, we consider them as our friends, and we think for the moment that we are on the most cordial footing; when we find other countries that take a different view, and thwart us in the object we pursue, it is our duty to make allowance for the different manner in which they may follow out the same objects. It is our duty not to pass too harsh a judgment upon others, because they do not exactly see things in the same light as we see; and it is our duty not lightly to engage this country in the frightful responsibilities of war, because from time to time we may find this or that Power disinclined to concur with us, in matters where their opinion and ours, may fairly differ".
Xi Jinping on Russia & China's relationship:
"Our people have a relationship that is special beyond that of any other - it is both natural and permanent."
US diplomat, adviser, George Kennan:
“The greatest service this country could render the rest of the world would be to put its own house in order, and to make of American civilization... a true example of decency, humanity & societal success -- from which, others could derive whatever they might find useful to their own purposes.”
(ex) US President Obama: “I don’t really even need George Kennan right now.”
Robert Heinlein:
"Never appeal to a man's better nature; he may not have one."
Barbara J. Brothers, US scientist:
"Russians have a sense of connectedness to themselves and to other human beings, that is just not a part of American reality. It's not that competitiveness doesn't exist; it is just that... there always seems to be more consideration & respect for others, in any given situation."
Russia's Deputy PM, Dmitry Rogozin:
“The West handles the Islamic world the way a monkey handles a grenade.”
The late Libyan leader, Muamar Gaddafi:
"Now listen you, people of NATO. You’re bombing a wall which stood in the way of African migration to Europe, and in the way of Al-Qaeda terrorists. This wall was Libya. You are breaking it. You are idiots, and you will burn in Hell for the thousands of migrants from Africa & for supporting Al-Qaeda. It will be so. I never lie. And I do not lie now."
WashingtonsBlog:
"For 222 out of 239 years – or 93% of the time – America has been at war."
US writer, Tom Engelhardt: "No antiwar movement, of any significance, proved to have staying power in this country. In some sense, most of us accepted our new role as a surveilled and protected populace, whose order of the day was --- do not get involved.”
The UK's DailyTelegraph:
"The analysis of the histories of the almost 200 countries in the world, found only 22 that have never experienced an invasion by the British."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
"They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred, they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians, without a shred of human remorse."
Deep Purple ex-vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (On his Crimea concert tour, despite the US/EU bans on musicians which many famous 'stars' are obeying):
"In Crimea, Russia --- I have found truth. I'm not afraid of sanctions. America is not the country I grew up in, and I am uncomfortable there. I think I have found the place and people that truly stand for truth and freedom: Russia."
Russian Hieromonk, Onisim:
“We should explain & demonstrate to youth the meaning of the Orthodox faith—what it includes and what union with God means, in what consists the path to salvation, and what is the task of the Christian: both for one’s own soul, and for the mission in this world.”
US political analyst Zbigniew Brzezinski:
"After eliminating communism the major threat to the West is Christian Orthodoxy."
UNESCO Ambassador and actor Peter Ustinov:
"Serbs are subhuman."
(ex) Ukrainian PM, Yatsenyuk:
"Those Russian terrorists in our country's South-East, are subhuman."
P. Gubarev, progenitor of Novorossiya:
“Everywhere, ordinary people are confronted with what degrades them into enslaved cattle and forces them to exist in a kind of charmed circle. Even in the esteemed West, the much praised welfare state... is a thing of the past.
“Everywhere, the rich are becoming more & more of a closed caste, the middle class is being eroded, & the majority of people are being impoverished.
“Everywhere, the majority of people are being pushed away from power. The 21st Century will become the ‘bitter age’ for the masses. The trend is obvious - the rich will become even richer and more powerful, and their subjects are waiting for progressive atomization.
“For the first time in many centuries, they're becoming, physically and mentally, weaker than their masters. Ukraine’s place in the new reality is unfortunate. It will become one of the poor, diseased states.”
Russian Orthodox Church priest, Vsevolod Chaplin:
“We've proposed the economic system of socialism, and, if not for the military influence on the situation by the West, this situation would have been resolved by economic methods and not by military or political pressure. Otherwise, the entire world would already be socialist, because it's the best system. Of course we like socialism.”
Alexander Medvedev, deputy head, Gazprom:
“Ukrainian transit won’t be used any more even if the sun and moon switch places.”
Barry Sanders:
"The greatest single assault on the environment -- on all of us around the globe -- comes from one agency: the Armed Forces of the United States."
Sara Flounders:
"By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products, and energy in general. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements."
Eminent journalist and filmmaker John Pilger::
“Since 1945, over a third of the membership of the United Nations -- 69 countries -- have suffered some, or all, of the following at the hands of America's modern fascism: they have been invaded, their governments overthrown, their popular movements suppressed, their elections subverted, their people bombed & their economies stripped of all protection, their societies subjected to a crippling siege, known as ‘sanctions’.”
William Blum, US author:
"Why will there never be a coup d'état in Washington? Because there's no American embassy there."
Tom Engelhardt:
“War without an antiwar movement, turns out to mean war without pause, war without end.”
Russia's new official Naval Doctrine, page 20, section 54:
"A defining factor in relations with NATO remains that, for Russia, the following is unacceptable: the alliance’s plan to move its infrastructure to the borders of Russia, and the attempts to give the alliance a global role."
William Blum, US author:
"Until people understand fully the worldwide suffering American policy has caused, we will never be able to stop the monster."
VV Putin in 2014:
"Everything America touches, becomes Libya"
Harvard academic Elaine Scarry:
“Current scientific research shows that even a smaller nuclear arsenal, if used in a major exchange, will still produce a nuclear winter, causing a drop in the average temperature across earth, larger than what occurred in the Ice Age, 18,000 years ago, reducing rainfall by 45 percent…
“This new research also models what will happen, if a tiny fraction (.015%) of today’s total arsenal, is used in a regional exchange of 50 Hiroshima- size weapons: 44 million people will die at once; 1 billion will die from starvation.”
Albert Einstein:
"People say that it is intelligence which makes a great scientist. I say they are wrong: it is character."
Henry Kissinger:
“The demonization of Putin is not a policy. It’s an alibi for not having a policy.”
Vladimir Putin:
“As you know, the modern world, especially the Western world, is highly monopolised, & many Western countries -- whether they want to hear this, or not -- have, voluntarily, given up a considerable part of their sovereignty. To some extent, this is a result of the politics of blocs. Sometimes we find it very difficult to come to terms with them on geopolitical issues. It is hard to reach an agreement with people who whisper, even at home, for fear of being over- heard by the Americans. This is not a joke, or a figure of speech.”
Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Lakota Indian:
"It is the mothers, not the warriors, who create a people and guide their destiny."
Karen Garcia:
“When police officers can stalk, threaten, harass, assault, arrest, injure and kill black people for the crime of merely existing, I think it’s high time that the USA declares itself a state sponsor of terrorism.”
Former Soviet PM, Yevgeny Primakov:
"We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen, it is certainly not in the interests of the country, not in the interests of the people."
Yevgeny Primakov:
"Can we still speak of Russia's interest in having the S. East remain part of Ukraine? My answer is yes; I believe it is necessary. Only on this basis can the Ukrainian crisis be managed."
"Another question: should renouncing the unification of Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia become a "concession" to the US and its European allies? My answer is no, this should not be a bargaining chip in the negotiations."
"If the Minsk Agreements are not followed, should Russia in an extreme case send its regular troops to help militias? My answer: categorically no. If this happened, it would be beneficial for the US, which would use the situation to keep Europe under its influence for an entire century."
"Furthermore, this position would not mean that we are refusing to support the militias, who are striving for particular status within the structure of a Ukrainian state."
Chief Luther Standing Bear, Oglala band of Sioux:
“We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and the winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘wild’. Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’ and only to him was the land ‘infested’ with ‘wild’ animals and ‘savage’ people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy, heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved, was it ‘wild’ for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that, for us, the ‘wild west’ began.”
US General Sherman:
"We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination: men, women and children."
GENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER JR, in 1933:
"We are a nation of gangsters and racketeers -- whose purpose serves our supra-nationalism of capitalism and our cultural and economic assault upon others."
Count Destutt de Tracy, 1754-1836:
“A theft of greater magnitude and still more ruinous, is the making of paper money; it is greater because in this money, there is absolutely no real value; it is more ruinous because, by its gradual depreciation during the time of its existence, it produces the effect which would be proration of the coins. All those iniquities are founded on the false idea that money is but a sign.”
George Washington, 1732-1799:
“If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This countrywill crash.”
The motto of the SS was: "Hate is our prayer."
Yugoslavia & Serbia President, Slobodan Miloševic:
“Look at us and remember - they will do the same to you if you disunite and go soft. The West - this mad guard dog - will sink its teeth in your throat. Brothers, remember Yugoslavia’s fate! Do not let them do the same thing to you! Russians, what do you need Europe for? It’s hard to find a nation that is more self-reliant than you. Europe needs you but not the opposite. It's three of you - three entire countries! But there's no unity! You have everything you need and it is your own: lots of land, energy, water, science, industry and culture.
“When we had Yugoslavia and were united, we felt ourselves as a great power, able to move mountains. Now, because of our stupidity & unwillingness to listen to each other, Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore & we're all 'unwanted warts' on Europe's political map - new markets for their expensive stuff and American democracy”.
Vladimir Putin:
“Russia has no intention of taking an active role in thwarting those who are attempting to construct their New World Order --- until their efforts start to encroach on Russia’s key interests, that is.
“Russia would prefer to stand by & watch them give themselves as many lumps as their poor heads can take. But those who manage to drag Russia into this process, through disregard for her interests, will be taught the true meaning of pain.”
Udo Ulfkotte ex-CIA stooge & ex-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
“The German and US media is trying to bring war to the people in Europe --- to bring war to Russia. This is a point of no return and I'm going to stand up and say: it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia --- and it is also not right, what my colleagues are doing and have done in the past, because they are bribed to betray the people --- not only in Germany, but all over Europe.”
German author GUNTHER GRASS:
"Is it not time for us Germans to reconsider -- whether we are of the West at all? are not our myths, legends, literature, fairytales, our music and philosophies, our poems & character, closer to our Russian cousins, than we could ever be with the atlanticists? Why do we continue to refuse to hear the call of the East -- where we truly belong -- with our Russian cousins?"
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:
“A trend of not acknowledging Russians as one of them, has existed in Western Europe for centuries, despite the fact that for at least 300 years we have been an inseparable part of European culture and politics. The periods of Russia's most active participation in European affairs, were marked by stability and peace on the continent."
Confucius on 'The Rectification of Names':
"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done, remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters, above everything".
The BBC, France 24, Deutsche Welle, Fox News, CNN, the New York Times: "Russia has invaded eastern Ukraine."
Mark Twain:
"The loud little handful, as usual, will shout for the war. The pulpit will, warily and cautiously, object, at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, & presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, & free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with the stoned speakers, as earlier, but do not dare say so. And now the whole nation, pulpit and all, will take up the warcry, & shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; & presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience- soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; & thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, & will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
NATO CONSTITUTION Article 1:
"The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful means, in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations."
Putin advisor, Sergei Glazyev:
“The main task the American puppet masters have set for the (Kiev) junta is to draw Russia into a full-scale war with Ukraine. It is for this purpose that all of these heinous crimes are committed – to force Russia to send troops to Ukraine to protect the civilian population.
“The bankruptcy of the US financial system, which is unable to service its foreign debt, the lack of investments to finance a break- through to a new technological order and to maintain America’s competitiveness, and a potential defeat in the geopolitical competition with China: to resolve these problems, Americans need a new world war.”
Paul Craig Roberts:
"Unless European governments recognize the danger in Washington’s aggression --- and dissolve NATO --- planet earth hasn’t long to live."
Point 40 of Syriza's 40 Point Manifesto:
"Closure of all foreign bases in Greece and withdrawal from NATO."
Nikolai Patrushev, Russia’s Security Council:
"The territory of the United States itself, which essentially established unilateral military control over all the allies, is not included in NATO’s zone of responsibility."
Otto Von Bismarck:
"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
Charles de Gaulle:
'Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism is when hatred for people other than your own, comes first.'
Socrates:
"All foreign wars are waged for power and money. They are nothing but the pillage, theft and rape, of other countries' treasures."
Albert Einstein (On the USA):
''Everywhere you look, people are made to work very, very hard in order to enrich the private few. This is done, not so much by direct physical force, but by subconsciously compelling people to comply with rules and regulations and laws, created and designed for the benefit of the private few, and their capitalism."
Vladimir Putin:
"We are a social welfare state. We can not be a country that just trades people in order to make the pockets of some bankers happy. If we do that, we cease to exist as Russia".
Marcus Tullius Cicero:
“A nation can survive its fools, & even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
“For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face & their arguments. He appeals to a baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly & unknown in the night, to undermine the pillars of the city. He infects the body politic, so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor, is the plague.”
Tony Rooke, who won a law suit v the BBC:
“The fact that the BBC reported the collapse of WTC 7 - 23 minutes before it actually fell - indicates that the UK was aware of the 9/11 attacks before they actually happened. The direct implication is that they were working with the ‘terrorists’ --- all arguments as to who the terrorists actually were, aside.”
George Orwell:
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful & murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
Saudi Arabia’s Brigadier General Asiri:
“All we're trying to do, is make sure that there is security in Yemen.”
Lazarus Long in Robert Heinlein's book: (often misattributed to Mark Twain...?)
“Never try to teach a pig to sing – it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
Saudi Arabia's founder, King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud:
“The good or evil -- for us -- will come from Yemen.”
Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech:
“We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice.”
Retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski:
“What the US government is focused on is putting arms out there and creating bias for those arms. The US taxpayer subsidizes foreign weapon sales. So we're always out there, our govern- ment is always out there looking for places to market our weapons. US foreign policy is aimed at creating markets for US weaponry and is good at it, not at solving crises, promoting good governments, etc. That’s not our expertise. We don’t spend time and money on that. We spend time and money on creating consumers for our weapons.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr:
"We are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway.”
Sun-Tzu:
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
Prominent neoconservative Richard Perle:
“There will be no stages. This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there... If we just let our vision of the world go forth and we embrace it entirely and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.”
Todd E. Pierce:
“When we allow our 'Conservative Revolutionaries' (or neoconservative militarists or proto-fascists or whatever term best describes them) to make foreign policy, the US loses legitimacy in the world as a 'rule of law' state. Instead, we present a 'fascist' justification for our wars, which is blatantly illicit.”
Todd E. Pierce:
“As the American political establishment has become so enamored with war & the “warriors” who fight them, it has become child’s play for our militarists to manipul- ate the US into wars or foreign aggression, through promiscuous economic sanctions or by inciting and arming foreign groups to destabilize the countries that we target.”
Qu Xing, China’s ambassador to Belgium:
“The United States is unwilling to see its presence in any part of the world being weakened, but the fact is, its resources are limited, & it will be, to some extent, hard work to sustain its influence in external affairs.”
Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari:
"The world has 9 important waterways and Iran controls 5 of them."
George Friedman, head of Stratfor, Feb 4, 2015:
"The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars - the First, the Second and the Cold Wars - has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because, united, they are the only force that could threaten us;- and to make sure, that that doesn't happen."
Richard Sakwa:
"What is the point of the EU, if it cannot even prevent war on its own continent?"
Goethe:
“The best slave is the person who believes they are free.”
Field Marshal Montgomery:
“Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: ‘Don't march on Moscow’. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it's no good. That is the first rule. [Rule 2] is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.”
Anonymous:
An academic was walking in a lane, and came face to face with a tramp. The lane was too narrow for the two to pass. The academic drew himself up to his full height, saying: "I never make way for fools!" Smiling broadly, the old tramp stepped aside & said: "I always do, sir."
Sa'di:
'the sun, the moon, the planets, the air, the water and the earth are all serving you, aiding life's purpose and preparing your food. Yet you regard all this unthankfully, absorbed in your own little troubles which are as nothing before the great forces of nature, always working, night and day'.
John F. Kennedy:
“What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living.”
NATO General Secretary Mr. Woerner in Brussels on the 17th of May, 1990:
“The fact that we are ready not to place a NATO army outside German territory, gives the Soviet Union a firm security guarantee."
Pablo Iglesias, leader of Spain's Podemos:
"One shouldn't forget that the EU supported the illegal change of power in Ukraine, and the coming of a neo-Nazi party to Ukraine's government. Some European leaders took part in public events in Ukraine, together with neo-Nazis. This is too far from European values."
George Friedman on what to do in Ukraine:
"We must do as the British did. They did not at one time occupy India, but simply took control of individual Indian kingdoms and set them against each other --- and they placed their officers in the Indian Army."
Professor Michel Chossudovsky:
“What distinguishes the Bush and Obama administrations, is that the concentration camps, targeted assassinations & torture chambers, are now openly considered as legitimate forms of intervention, which sustain ‘the global war on terrorism’ and aid the spread of ‘Western democracy.’”
President of Syriza, 40-year-old Alexis Tsipras:
"Today the Greek people has written history, Hope has written history... Greece is turning a page. Greece is leaving the austerity of catastrophe and fear... there are no losers and winners. Those who've been defeated are the elite & oligarchs. We're regaining our dignity, our sovereignty again."
Rob Urie, author:
"The economic policies forced on Greece were more draconian than in the US and European core, but by degree -- not type. Wall Street, which includes major German and French banks, has used manufactured crises to affect ‘soft’ coups around the globe for decades. Debt is used as a weapon. The Greek people have a very difficult battle to fight. But the neo-liberal coup is international. Americans and Northern Europeans who think they are on the ‘winning’ side, just haven’t had their jobs and life savings stolen - yet. To one degree or another, we are all Greeks now."
Paul Craig Roberts:
"The Greek economic crisis is the result of austerity policies forced on Greece's people in order to prevent the private banks from making losses on their loans to Greece. "The purpose of the austerity policy was to establish that Greek people are responsible for the bankers' mistakes, not the bankers; to make ordinary people cover the bankers' losses, by accepting cuts in employment, pensions, public services, and by selling off public assets at bargain prices to the banks' clients. "IMF loans and conditionality programs are the mechanism by which countries are looted. No state has ever benefited from an IMF program: only the creditors of the country benefit."
The International Union of Food Workers:
“Austerity isn't the product of a deficient grasp of macroeconomics, or a failure of ‘social dialogue,’ it is a conscious blue- print for expanding corporate power.”
Rob Urie, author:
"E.C.B. bankers might really believe that ‘expansionary austerity’ policies would allow Greeks to pay un-repayable debts, but, by implementing policies that have a long history as imperial plunder, they have that history to answer for. "The serial capitulation by the so-called European left, to these neo-imperialist policies, only makes sense if the Party leaders see themselves on the ‘inside’ of the imperial divide."
First Nation saying:
"When the last tree is cut, when the last river has been poisoned, and when the last fish has been caught, only then you will find out that you can't eat money."
Eduardo Galleano:
"It would be strange if the remedy should come from the United States, the same place which brings us the disease."
Haile Selassie I Of Ethiopia:
"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior, is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war; and until there are no longer 1st-class and 2nd-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes, and until basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war; and until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, and the rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained. Now, everywhere is war."
Andre Vltchek:
"Humankind rests on the brink of annihilation, for no other reason than the American pursuit of unlimited profit. They are the extremists of the capitalist system."
Chief of Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, General Viktor Muzhenko:
“No Russian troops are fighting against us: the only Russian citizens who are fighting in the contested region, are residents in that region, or of Ukraine, and also some Russian citizens who are members of illegal armed groups.”
Paul Craig Roberts:
“As long as Washington controls Europe, Russia has no prospects of being a part of the West, unless Russia becomes Washington’s puppet state, like Germany, Britain, and France.”
Mike Harris, an editor of Veterans Today:
“It’s time for the US to grow up and start being a better world citizen. Our foreign policy has been hijacked, and the US is run by a criminal cabal sitting in the city of London and Israel. And it is time for the American people to seize control of their own government & end this corruption and put these people in prison or hang them for treason, as needed.”
Alexandr Solzhenitzyn:
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. “When we neither punish nor reproach evil-doers, we aren't simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
Andre Vltchek:
"We must hope that the skillful diplomacy we have seen employed by both Russia and China, the increased pace of their bilateral cooperation with each other and their increased steps to achieve multilateral cooperation throughout the world, from Latin America to Africa and Europe and Asia, will change the power dynamics of the world sufficiently to prevent the Americans and their allies from achieving their aims, so that the peoples of the world can live in peace and devote their energies to solving humanity’s pressing problems."
Lao Tzu:
"To know the truth is the best thing. To know that you do not know is the second best.To pretend to know when you do not know, is a disease."
Ara Stepanyan, the executive secretary of the Academy of Geopolitical Issues, when asked, on the 12th of December, in 2013: 'If Ukraine were to join the Customs Union, what would the European Union do?':
"First of all, they will impose sanctions against individual leaders or politicians in Ukraine - those who sign the Customs Union. If they have accounts, they will be arrested as criminal, anti-democratic ...and so on. Then they will permanently organize and provoke riots, rallies and, of course, form public opinion, as they do today, by saying that the police allegedly applied excessive force."
Paul Craig Roberts:
“While Washington presents Europe with war and sacrifice, Russia and China offer trade and friendship.”
Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf:
"But when we speak of new territory in Europe to-day, we must principally think of Russia and the border States subject to her."
Arnold Toynbee, historian:
"The West's policy toward Russia is one of aggression."
Paul Craig Roberts:
"Washington is comprised of 3 elements: Arrogance, Hubris, and Evil. There is nothing else there."
President Eisenhower:
“Unleashing of the atomic infernos on mostly civilian populations was simply this: an act of supreme terrorism and of barbarity callously calculated by the US planners to demonstrate their country’s demonic power to the rest of the world - and the Soviet Union in particular.”
Bertrand Russell:
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Nathan Mayer Rothschild:
"Buy when there is blood on the streets".
Wesley Clark, former Supreme Commander of NATO:
"We're going to take out 7 countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and, finishing off, with Iran."
Paul Craig Roberts:
"Only three countries stand in the way of Washington’s hegemony over the world -- Russia, China, and Iran."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in 2002:
“Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away.”
Dr. Roslyn Fuller:
"Years of sitting back and hoping that someone else will take care of this mess, is all catching up on us now."
The 1950's US ambassador to Cuba, Earl T. Smith:
“I ran Cuba from the sixth floor of the US embassy. The Cubans’ job was to grow sugar and shut up.”
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia:
“La lucha que dejó Che Guevara, vamos a cumplir nosotros” "We will finish the fight that Che Guevara started."
Frantz Fanon:
"The settler's work is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the native. The native's work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the settler."
Former President of Brazil, Lula:
"Democracy is not a pact of silence, but a society in movement, in search of new achievements."
President José Mujica of Uruguay:
"Humanity will emerge from pre-history the day barracks become schools."
President al-Assad of Syria:
"Despair is the beginning and essence of defeat and defeat is primarily psychological."
sheik imran hossein:
"The world is being taken for a ride by the great western countries & their systems, for everything. It is a case of do as I tell you and not do as I do.
"Rightly, both the US and UK should be bankrupt. To recover, they should be selling their banks, industries and other assets, at fire-sale prices. That was what the Asian countries were forced to do, after currency traders forced many of them almost into bankruptcy.
"But the bankrupt powerful countries of the West don’t have to do that. They carry out Quantitative Easing, print money (issue cheques) and refinance their banks and bankrupt industries: and they talk about transparency in business practice!"
William Wordsworth: "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
Cypriot economics professor, Andreas Theophanous:
"There’s a huge solidarity deficit in the European Union and in the Troika, which is much higher than any fiscal deficit or public debt of any country in the European south."
Hugo Chavez:
"If I keep quiet, the stones would cry out for the people of Latin America, who are willing to be free after 500 years of colonialism."
Before Chavez underwent his last operation, he explained why he had chosen Maduro:
"He's one of the young leaders with the greatest ability to continue, if I'm unable to: with his firm hand, with his gaze, with his heart of a man of the people, with his gift for people, with his intelligence, with the international recognition he's earned, with all his leadership skills."
Nicolas Maduro, Chavez' successor:
"Our people will never again see the bourgeoisie plundering this country. Better to be dead, than traitors to the people and to Chavez!"
Nicolas Maduro:
"Be dignified inheritors of the giant man. Let there be no weakness, no violence. Let there be no hate. In our hearts there should only be one sentiment: Love. Love, peace and discipline."
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega:
"The US is not supporting liberty, they are promoting servitude"
(ex) US President Obama:
"No country on earth would tolerate missiles raining down from outside its borders."
James Fetzer, an editor at Veterans Today:
"The United States has become the greatest aggressor nation in the world --- and our country is increasingly resembling the Third Reich, where history is going to record that the United States descended into that deep, dark, black abyss, typified by war criminals."
Imam Ali (A):
"A cunning enemy is better than a foolish friend!"
Ex (Lol) Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper:
“As long as I am Prime Minister, whether it is at the UN or the Francophonie or anywhere else, Canada will take a stand of unwavering support for Israel - whatever the cost to Canada.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): “..the world is governed by very different personages from what's imagined by those who aren't behind the scenes.”
Woodrow Wilson,(1856-1924): "Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organised, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933: “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centres has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.”
In America one slave law decreed:
"Slaves have no souls, no wit, no intelligence, and no will. Their life is concentrated in their muscles."
José Luis Centella:
"The Spanish left, as is the case in the rest of Europe,
faces the challenge of showing there are alternatives
to capitalism. Doing this requires learning from all
previous historical processes, but not copying them."
Ali Larijani: “...in the past two years the US has sold more than USD 18 billion in arms in the Persian Gulf region.”
José Luis Centella:
"What fascism attempts to do is to identify the immigrant, your neighbour, as the enemy, to leave capitalism unscathed. The role of our party is to show who the real enemy is: a system which has plundered Spain as it has many other countries."
Iran’s Expediency Council Chairperson Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani:
“Through injustice, they first make people reach the end of their tether... and then deceitfully turn them against each other.”
George Bernard Shaw "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be, of learning from experience."
Stephen Biko:
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
José Luis Centella:
"The European left must be conscious that at this time in history, Europe is in the rearguard in this confrontation with capitalism.
Today we in Europe have to learn, as opposed to teach."
French political analyst Coralie Delaume:
"The size of debts and budget deficits are the only things that Europe worries about today. European Monetary Union is getting weaker by the day. Stupefied Europeans no longer understand what awaits them... From an economic and political standpoint, the European Union is a spherical fiasco in a vacuum: No matter which side you look at it from, your gaze is met with catastrophe"
President Rafael Correa: "That societies control markets - and not the other way around - is an aspiration of the movement of Ecuador & the other progressive countries in Latin America."
The former Iranian President Ahmadinejad: "We have to be astute, alert. If we do not propose a new future world order, we will inherit one created by slave owners and capitalists, who will impose and control the new system."
Howard Zinn: “Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country, for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose;- to create hysteria.”
Israeli Premiere Shimon Peres, in April 1963: “I can tell you forthrightly, that we will not introduce atomic weapons into the region. We certainly will not be the first to do so. We have no interest in that. On the contrary, our interest is in de- escalating the armament tension, even in total disarmament.”
UK Stop the War Coalition: “The US and its allies remain silent over Israel's covert nuclear arsenal --- the only one in the Middle East."
Major General Zhang Zhaozhong: "China will not hesitate to protect Iran, even with a Third World War."
Professor Noam Chomsky: "There is no justification for targeted assassination.. Bush administration policy was to kidnap suspects and send them to secret prisons where they were not treated very nicely, as we know. But Obama's administration has escalated that policy to 'you don't kidnap them, but you kill them.' Now, remember, these are suspects."
Vladimir Kondakov, shaman: "Do you think the world is based on the good? No, it is based on a balance of the good and the evil. Now, the evil prevails, and it is not that God is evil or weak. Evil is in humans."
Anthropologist Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has."
Eglantyne Jebb, founder, Save the Children: “All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.”
One of the US’s richest men, Warren Buffett: "Sure there’s class warfare... and my class is winning.”
Bobby Sands:
"Our revenge will be the laughter of our children."
Naomi Klein, on the '99%' movement: “We found each other... this time we have to succeed.”
Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham: "The inconvenient truth is that Libya was only feasible, because US forces first destroyed Libya's air defences and then provided 75% of all air support missions."
Tom Engelhardt:
“In the badlands and backlands of the planet, however, the spectacle of slaughter never ends, even if the only Americans watching are some- times unnerved drone video analysts. Could there be a sadder tale of a demobilized citizenry, than that?”
President Assad of Syria
"Is this a revolution and are these revolutionaries? By God, I say they are a bunch of criminals."
The late Hugo Chávez (to the 2011 UN General Assembly): “For us, it is obvious that the UN is not improving, nor will it improve from the inside.
If the Secretary General, along with the President of the International Criminal Court, take part in an act of war --- as in the case of Libya --- nothing can be expected from the current structure of this organization and there is no longer time for reform.”
“It is unbearable that there is a Security Council that turns its back, whenever it wants to, on the clamour of the majority of nations, by deliberately failing to acknowledge the will of the General Assembly. If the Security Council is some sort of club with privileged members, what can the General Assembly do? Where is its room for maneuver, when Security Council members violate international law?
“If we do not make a commitment, once and for all, to rebuild the United Nations, this organization will lose its remaining credibility. Its crisis of legitimacy will be accelerated until it finally implodes. In fact, that is what happened to its immediate predecessor: the League of Nations.”
Fidel Castro: "At a time when NATO, spearheaded by the US, France and the UK, is warring to gain control of resources in key Middle Eastern & African states, Palestine’s long fight for statehood will be overwhelmingly endorsed by the General Assembly on September 20th.
"Whether this inalienable right of its people, who have never given up the struggle, will be more than a symbolic 194th seat --- depends on whether the UN can regain its role as an organization taking positive action for world peace, rather than being utilized for neocolonial wars."
Walter Lippman: “The news and the truth are not the same thing”
Algerian State Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadam: “The Arab League is no longer a league, and it’s far from Arab, since it asks the Security Council to intervene against 1 of its founding members, and calls upon NATO, to destroy the resources of Arab countries.”
Bolivian President Evo Morales: "This millennium belongs to the peoples and not the oligarchies, if we want real equality, & freedom for all, worldwide."
Gerald Celente: “When people have nothing left to lose, they lose it.”
The Rev. Martin Luther King: “There was a time when the church was very powerful. It was during that period that early Christians rejoiced, when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed.
"In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was the thermostat that transformed the mores of society.”
Bolivian President Evo Morales: "Capitalism is not the solution to the current problems of mankind. Mankind is waiting for a new political thesis about the rights of Mother Earth, of natural resources, of life in general."
Vladimir Putin: "The models of development based on growing debt don't work."
Bolivian President Evo Morales: "Cuba is always a source of inspiration and despite an economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US for half a century ------ it represents the first country in solidarity with the rest of the world. That solidarity is unmatchable: I can never find the means to repay it."
Nouriel Roubini: "Karl Marx had it right. At some point, capitalism can destroy itself. You cannot keep on shifting income from labour to capital without having an excess capacity and a lack of aggregate demand. That’s what has happened."
Brian Willson: "We've become addicted to a material way of life that requires imperial policies ------ to extract all these resources around the world, funnel them to 4.6% of the world's population; demeaning, impoverishing, murdering, maiming people all over the world, who are in the way of our precious metals needed for our cell phones and our computers, in the Congo...
"And we are facing a massive correction of our wayward ways in the West."
Paul Craig Roberts: "There is nothing left of the American character. Only a people who have lost their soul could tolerate the evil that emanates from Washington."
Financial analyst Max Keiser: "London is the world’s capital of fraud".
Noam Chomsky: "As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome."
Malcolm X: "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing."
Ayatollah Khomeini: “Muslims must awake. Today is not a time for each Muslim to lead a special existence in some corner. This cannot be. At a time like this, when the policy of the superpowers is to devour every part of the world, Muslims must awake... I do not have a hope in most of the governments, but the nations must awake and come under the banner of Islam...”
Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar: “A person who, irrespective of religious creed, aspires for spiritual expansion, or who does something concrete, is a Tantric.
"Tantra is neither a religion nor an 'ism'. Tantra is a fundamental spiritual science. So wherever there is any spiritual practice, it should be seen that it rests on Tantra.
"Where there is no spiritual practice, where people pray to God for the fulfilment of narrow worldly desires; where people’s only slogan is “Give us this and give us that” – only there, is Tantra discouraged.
"Only those who do not understand Tantra, or even after understanding Tantra, do not want any spiritual practice, oppose the cult of Tantra.”
Jesus Christ: "In the house of my father are many mansions."
The Prophet: "Each soul has its own religion."
Gaddafi, at the 2008 Arab Summit: "How can we accept that a foreign power comes to topple an Arab leader while we stand watching? Saddam had once been an ally of Washington... but they sold him out. Your turn is next. Where is the Arabs' dignity, their future, their very existence? Everything has disappeared."
Malcolm X: "Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you...
'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall, while the whole world was fighting for its human rights.. . 'and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.'
What did we do, who preceded you ? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing.
And don't you make the same mistake we made...."
Michael O'Hanlon, the Brookings Institution: "Make no mistake about it. If you look at the casualties from violence, Iraq is still comparable to Afghanistan today.
"That's counter- intuitive to most people, who think of Afghanistan as going up in flames and Iraq as settling down. But in fact, while Iraq's violence is 90% reduced from what it used to be, it's still much higher than most of the region."
Former CIA officer Michael Scheuer: "We have backed the wrong horse for 50 years. To think that the Egyptian people are going to forget that we backed dictators for 50 years, I think, is a pipe dream."
Iranian Blogger: "Today, the USA and Britain are the most hated countries in the world."
Russian Prime Minister Valdimir Putin: "How can one intervene in defense of the civilian population, while adopting methods that are increasing the number of victims?"
Calon Lan (Welsh folk song): ''I ask not for ease and riches
Nor earth's jewels for my part
But I have the best of wishes
For a pure and honest heart.''
Mwambustya Ndebesa, lecturer, Uganda's Makerere University: "Unity should be for the transformation of society to live a better life --- but if it is for enslavement, then you first gain independence, & then you can negotiate how you can cooperate on equal terms."
Dr Martin Luther King: “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia: "..the US has overstepped its national borders in every way. This is visible in the economic, political, cultural and educational policies it imposes on other nations. Well, who likes this? Who is happy about this?"
George H. Bush: "Whatever the US says, goes".
Fidel Castro: "Intellectuals can perhaps provide an enormous service to humanity...... It is not about trying to save humanity in terms of millenniums, maybe not even in terms of centuries. The problem is that our species is facing new problems, and has not even learned to survive."
"If we can achieve intellectuals’ understanding of the risk that we are experiencing at this moment, to which a response cannot be postponed, perhaps they will manage to persuade the most self-satisfied, incapable beings ever to have existed: we politicians."
District governor of Arghandab, Southern Afghanistan, Shah Muhammed Ahmadi: "We've had to destroy many villages, to make them safe."
Paul Craig Roberts: "The US government is a duplicitous entity whose raison d’etre is to control every other country."
Martin Luther King Jr. "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government."
Ho Chi Minh: "Vietnam will be free, independent and sovereign. The enemy will be defeated & the Vietnamese people will build a Vietnam ten times more beautiful."
Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan: "Our prayers, cries and screams have been echoing in the sky for 1,300 years. Nobody is superior to anyone in these lands, not the Sunni to the Shiites, not the Turkish to the Kurdish, the Laz to the Circassian or the Persian to the Arabs. We are all the same in this land, together, brothers."
Ex UK Prime Minister Tony Blair: “We invaded Iraq because the Arabs need someone to run their affairs.”
Former President of Iran, Ahmadinejad : "Americans are worse than the most dictatorial dictators. They assassinate nuclear scientists because they're not strong enough to counter the Iranian nation, and think a nation will step back with the assassination of its loved ones."
Mahatma Gandhi: "Fear has its uses... but cowardice has none."
William K. Black: "The best way to rob a bank is to own one."
John Connally, Nixon's Treasury secretary: "The dollar is our currency, but your problem."
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba: "It is widely acknowledged that the principal cause of the alteration of the world climatic system is the pattern of unsustainable production and consumption that prevails in the developed countries."
William Colby, former CIA Director: "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
Bruce Lee’s character in “Enter The Dragon”: “Remember, the enemy has only images and illusions behind which, he hides his true motives; destroy the image - & you will break the enemy.”
Ayatollah Kamenei, Iran's leader: “The extensive propaganda of the enemy to spread Islamophobia, its offhand efforts to create discord among Muslim sects, to incite sectarian prejudices, to bring about pseudo-confrontations between the Sunnis and the Shi’ah, to create disunity between Islamic states & to aggravate their differences, to change them into hostility and unsolvable conflicts, its employment of intelligence & espionage outfits to propagate corruption & immorality amongst the youth — all these are nervous & bewildered responses to the steady and firm advances of the Islamic Ummah towards awakening, honour & freedom.”
The International Monetary Fund ( ! ): “Violent protests could break out in countries worldwide if the financial system is not restructured to benefit everyone, rather than a small elite.”
Joe Stack before crashing a plane into the IRS: "The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed".
THE PROPHET: "Fear the supplication of the oppressed: because between them and God there is no barrier."
Abraham Lincoln, 1st Republican President of the US: "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side."
Thomas Paine, to US Citizens, January 29th, 1803: "Where the election is a fiction, representation is a fiction also. Like will always produce like."
Rothschild: "Give me the power to control any nations money and I care not who makes it's laws"
Rothschild's mother: "If my sons do not want war... ...there will be no war"
Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez: "In order to survive, a leap in the consciousness of humanity is essential, one which is only possible via the dissemination of truthful information about those issues which are hidden or ignored by most politicians, not published by the press, and which people find so horrifying, as to seem unbelievable."
US newspaper oligarch, William Hearst:
“You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war”
William Pfaff in 2003: "People outside the United States have stopped believing the American story."
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel; founder & spiritual leader of the Shas Party, a major party in Israel's government NOW!: "Goyim [non-Jews] were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like a master & eat."
Aristotle: "The antidote for 50 enemies is 1 friend."
Fidel Castro: "Do away with the philosophy of plunder and you will have done away forever, with the philosophy of war!"
Martin Luther King Jr: “The paralysis of analysis.”
Aristotle: "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind, next to honour."
Karl Marx: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways;- the point is to change it."
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia: "The mining communities were great revolutionaries, aiming to transform."
Fidel Castro: "Here is a conclusion I’ve come to after many years: among all the errors we may have committed, the greatest of them all --- was that we believed that someone really knew something about socialism or that someone actually knew how to build socialism".
Dr Martin Luther King: "We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing- oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ one. When machines, computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism, are incapable of being conquered.”
From “When Silence Is Betrayal,” Riverside Church, April the 4th, 1967.
Fidel Castro: "Why can't the world act like a family? We have no other planet to move to.
"Venus, named for the god of love, is terribly hot. The star closest to Earth is four light years away.
"We can't move. Our life is here, on this planet, the only one we truly have.
"I think we have to behave like a family and share what we have: some have oil, some food, those beyond, doctors…
"Why can't we think of the earth as the home of a single human family?"
Blogger on Press TV: "Democracy - two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
Confucius: “Let humanity be the ultimate measure of all that you do”
Mahatma Gandhi: “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth & love has always won.
There have been tyrants & murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall – think of it - always.”
Marcio Porto, FAO representative: "Many seem to be unaware of the fact that producing food is a science, and one of the most important and dynamic ones."
The late Wangari Maathai: "..soil is lost through wind erosion in areas where the land is devoid of vegetative cover. Losing topsoil should be considered analogous to losing territory to an invading enemy."
Fidel Castro: "We have a responsibility to provide information about the situation. To produce the amount of wheat the country consumes, 400,000 hectares of this crop is needed --- with a yield equivalent to that attained in the United States."
"We have to inform the people of what can be extracted from every square metre of land in our country."
Erik Reinert: "Countries that do not add value to their raw materials and which do not support their own industries through subsidies and other measures, will remain poor".
President Evo Morales: "We have to share the few things we have, rather than what we have left over."
Statement adopted by the New York City general assembly at Occupy Wall Street: We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments.”
Albert Einstein: "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms".
British Army Journal (1949): "The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off."
J. M. Barrie:
"Temper is a weapon we hold by the blade."
A. Solzhenitsyn:
"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to."
President José Mujica of Uruguay:
"Peace is the antidote for the hate generated by wars."
SAINT CADOC THE WISE: “I hate the judge who loves money, the scribe who loves war, chiefs who do not guard their subjects, and nations without vigour.
I hate houses without dwellers, lands untilled, fields that bear no harvest, landless clans, the agents of error, the oppressors of truth.
I hate him who respects not father or mother, those who make strife among friends, a country in anarchy, lost learning, and uncertain boundaries.
I hate journeys without safety, families without strength, lawsuits without reason, ambushes and treasons, faults in counsel, and justice unhonored.
I hate a man without a trade, a labourer without freedom, a society without teachers, false witnesses before a judge, the undeserving exalted to high position.”
Pope St. Gregory I:
"Those who make private property of the gift of God pretend in vain to be innocent. For, in thus retaining the subsistence of the poor, they are the murderers of those who die every day for the want of it."
Pope Francis:
“A people that cares neither for its youth nor for its older people, has no future.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
"It is not necessary that everyone should become religious, or exceedingly pious, or too good to live.
We want wise men in business, in politics, in education, in all walks of life; those who do not live only on the surface and those who do not believe only in matter, but who see life both within and without. It is such souls who will produce beauty; it is such souls who will harmonize the world, who will bring about the conditions we need today."
Black Elk:
"The first peace, which is most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the centre of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us."
Mahatma Gandhi:
“It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
"You can have all good things - wealth, friends, kindness, love to give and love to receive --- once you have learned not to be blinded by them, learned to escape from disappointment and from repugnance at the idea that things are not as you want them to be."
Black Elk, Oglala Sioux & Spiritual Leader (d.1950):
“Peace will come to the hearts of men, when they realize their oneness with the universe. It's everywhere: the Holy Land is everywhere.”
Seneca the younger:
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful"
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
"Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness, are considered by the Sufi, as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul, as well as within that of another."
Investigative journalist Peter Oborne:
‘The men and women who advocated the Iraq invasion, remain dominant in British public life. Those who opposed it remain marginal and despised.’
In "Pride and Prejudice" Jane Austen:
"I have no pretension whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man."
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."
Strategic risk consultant & lecturer William Engdahl:
"The Eurasian Century today is inevitable and unstoppable. Built on different principles of cooperation rather than domination, it just might offer a model for the bankrupt US and the soon-bankrupt EU, to build up true prosperity not based on looting and debt slavery."
US President, General Eisenhower:
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Every gun that is made, every war- ship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold & are not clothed. This world in arms, is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
Inayat Khan:
''Among millions of believers in God, there is hardly one who makes God a reality. To so many He is an imagination, to many He is in a mosque, a church, or a temple. Many wonder if God is, really.
''Many others think God is goodness, He is a personality separate from us, He is most high, most pure, most beautiful, but He is separate and difficult to reach. Many think that as it takes so long to reach this planet or that, God must be further away still.
''The purpose of one's whole life is to make God a reality... if you will seek for good in everything, you will always find it, for God is in all things, and, still more, He is in all beings.
''Seek Him in all souls, good and bad, wise and foolish, attractive or unattractive, for in the depth of each, there is God... He is all around and about us at every moment, we are living His life, we are breathing His breath ------ and yet we are ignorant of the perfection of beauty which unites and inspires every soul.''
Lao Tse:
"The wise puts himself last, finds himself in the lead."
John Lennon:
“The people have the power, all we have to do is awaken that power in the people. The people are unaware. They are not educated to realize that they have power. The system's so geared that everyone believes the government will fix everything. We are the government.”
The Book of Odes:
‘A bird sings out to draw a friend’s response.’
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
The innermost being of mankind is the real being of God. All meditation and contemplation, are taught with this purpose: to harmonize one's innermost being with God, so that He is seeing, hearing, thinking through us, and our being is a ray of His light. In that way, we are even closer to God, than the fishes are, to the ocean, in which, they have their being.''
