Quotations Page
Russia has announced that Nord Stream-2 is not damaged on one string, so let's get back on the streets, like the Czechs, who stand up to stop the West's pro-war elites forcing us into gas prices way too high for the majority to pay. - all for the USA to stay as ''top dog'' !
John Cheever:
“Our country is the best country in the world.. We are
swimming in prosperity and our President is the best
president in the world. We have -- larger apples and
better cotton & faster & more beautiful machines.
This makes us the greatest country in the world.
Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a
fable. In preparatory school, America is
beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean,
and it is too bad. It is bad, because
people believe it all. Because they
become indifferent. Because they
marry and reproduce and vote
and they know nothing.”

John Cheever:
“Long ago when they first invented the atomic bomb
people used to worry about its going off and killing
everybody, but they didn't know that mankind has
enough dynamite right in his guts, to tear the
f***ing planet to pieces.”
Liam Norton, on trial for shutting
down Murdoch's printworks, to #FreeThePress:
"The only response is to show contempt,
as you show contempt to this planet,
and to ordinary citizens' right to
try and expose criminality."
Yemen’s Supreme Political Council Chair,
Mehdi Mohammad Hussein al-Mashat:
“The US and British governments, the Zionist
regime, and most of the Western & Eastern
countries --- have been trying to obliterate
the Palestinian cause.”
G. K. Chesterton:
''I do not believe in a fate that falls on men,
however they act; but I do believe
in a fate that falls on them,
unless they act.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
The problem of the Negro race first came into being in America,
by the extermination of the aboriginal Red Skins, then, by the
transplantation of natives of Africa, to fill the void created,
and at present it is confounded with the Colonial problem
which is its ultimate phase and which is now shown by
the absolute negation of the rights to property by
Negroes, by negation of their civil rights—since
their civil personality is not recognized, by the
negation of their possibilities of evolution, by
deceit, by calumnies which induce the world
to believe --- that this race is irremediably
condemned to inferiority, to stagnate...
in ignorance, brutality, and violence -
all of which is contrary --- not to
experience --- since you have
never attempted ---- in good
faith, this experience -- but to that which we know ---- we ...who have lived with
our fathers & our mothers, our brothers, our sisters:, we who know - that they
are also men & women.''
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
''The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark. The
small truth has words which
are clear; the great truth
has great silence.
''Harry S. Truman:
''You want a friend
in Washington?
Get a dog.''
John Woolman:
''There is a principle... which is pure, placed in the
human mind which, in different places and ages,
has had different names. It is, however, pure....
and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward,
confined to no forms of religion nor excluded
from any, where the heart stands in perfect
sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root
and grows, of what nation soever, they
become brothers -- in the best sense
of the expression.''
Charles Sumner:
''There is beauty in art, in literature, in science, and in
every triumph of intelligence, all of which I covet for
my country; but there is a higher beauty still — in
relieving the poor, in elevating the downtrodden
and being a succour to the oppressed. There
is true grandeur in an example of justice, in
making the rights of all.. the same as our
own, and beating down the prejudice,
like Satan, under our feet.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''It's necessary that you should no longer allow yourself to be put
to sleep by this chloroform in strong doses - in doses in bulk -
which from time to time, in flights of oratory, members of
Parliament, and sometimes their supreme chief..
administer you.''
Louise Erdrich:
“We are never so poor, that we cannot bless
another human being, are we? So it is that
every evil, whether moral or material,
results in good. You'll see.”
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine:
"According to Judaism ------ a person without compassion who claims to be Jewish cannot be considered Jewish.
I mourn..... for the Judaism of love and kindness,
peace and generosity, that Israel worshipers
dismiss as a Utopian fantasy."
Mary Wollstonecraft:
''The same energy of character which
renders a man a daring villain, would
have rendered him useful in society
- had that society been
well organized.''
Lion Feuchtwanger:
''Both the historian and the novelist view history
as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and
determined to make judgments, which is
up against a vast and densely packed
majority of the blind, who are led by
their instincts and unable to think
for themselves.''
Gustav Stresemann:
''No change in the balance of political parties
can alter the general determination: that
no class should be excluded from
contributing to and sharing
responsibility for,
the state.''
Zhu Xi:
The Master said - "Danger comes from being
at ease in one's position. Death, comes from
preserving one's existence. Disorder comes
from one who rules. Therefore, the superior
person is at ease yet doesn't forget danger;
survives yet doesn't forget death; rules yet
doesn't forget disorder. This is how his life
can be easeful --- and his country can be
preserved.''
On February 26th, 2014, Viktor Yanukovych:
"I can't find words to characterise this new authority.
These are people who advocate violence - the
Ukrainian parliament is illegitimate".
Nicholas Murray Butler:
''Many people's tombstones
should read.. 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.
'''Hamshahri newspaper:
'''Many argue that the blazing fire of an armed conflict near
European borders --- is needed only by the United States,
which has always sought to weaken Russia --- trying to
achieve this by proxy.. and at the expense of conflicts
along its borders. So in whose geopolitical interests
will be the increase in the production of weapons
on a large scale, which is called for by European
officials and commissioners --- at all levels?''
Patch Adams:
''I have often found that mental patients who
are given love, creativity, and community,
find the peace that they are reaching
out for.''
John Cheever:
''Wisdom, we know, is the knowledge of good and evil --- not the strength to choose between the two.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''For us, all races are as welcome as the magnificent bloom
of spring. We do not understand --- that colour enters into
intellectual or moral expositions; we do not understand
that colour intervenes in economic questions ------ we
understand nothing, of the egotistical and barbarous
aims sought by certain civilized people who believe
that civilization can only reach its zenith --- by
ignoring original laws, and by debasing and
enslaving men who have the natural right
to live, to evolve, and to attain the full
expression of their being.''
Proverbs 22:7:
“The rich rule over the poor, and the
borrower is the slave of the lender”.
Political philosopher Alasdair
MacIntyre ---- in 'After Virtue':
“In the absence of traditions, moral debate
is out of joint; and becomes a theatre of
illusions in which simple indignation &
mere protest, occupy centre stage.”
President Xi, in 2013:
“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall to pieces?
To completely repudiate the historical experience
of the Soviet Union, to repudiate the history of
the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate
Stalin ------- was to wreak chaos on Soviet
ideology & engage in historical nihilism.”
President Putin:
“(China) managed in the best possible way --- in my
opinion, to use the levers of central administration
(to spur) the development of a market economy.
The Soviet Union did nothing like this and the
results of an ineffective economic policy
impacted the political sphere.”
Alexander Lebed on how NATO acts:
"Like a big drunken hooligan
in a kindergarten who says
he will hit anyone he likes."
Augustine of Canterbury:
''If we live good lives, the times are also
good. As we are, such are the times.''
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''The settlements must stop - now. Peace cannot be waged
while Palestinian land is confiscated in myriad ways and
the status of the Occupied Territories is being decided
each day by Israeli bulldozers and barbed wire. This
is not simply a position; it is an irrefutable reality.''
Richard Bach:
The meaning I picked -- the one that changed my life: Overcome fear,
behold wonder.''
Al Sharpton:
''Civilians are arrested every single day - including
innocent ones - and they must wait until their day
in court in order to argue their side of the story.
Police officers must be subjected to the
same rules.''
Woody Guthrie:
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good.
I hate a song that makes you think you are just born to lose.
Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing.
Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too
slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run
you down - or poke fun at you on account of your bad
luck, or hard travelling. I am out to fight those songs
to my very last breath of air & my last drop of blood.
I'm out to sing songs that will prove to you that this
is your world and that, if it has hit you pretty hard
& knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what
colour, what size you are, how you are built, I am
out to sing the songs that make you take pride
in yourself -- and in your work. And the songs
that I sing, are made up for the most part by
all sorts of folks just about like you. I could
hire out to the other side, the big money
side, & get several dollars every week
--- just to quit singing my own kind of
songs & to sing the kind that knock
you down still farther and the ones
that poke fun at you even more, &
the ones that make you think that
you've not got any sense at all.
But I decided a long time ago,
that I would starve to death,
before I'd sing any such
songs as that. The radio
waves & your movies &
your jukeboxes, & your
songbooks, are already
loaded down & running
over with such no good
songs as that, anyhow.”
Aretha Franklin:
''People... really don't have to give you
anything, so appreciate what people
give you. Every birthday is a gift.
Every day is a gift.''
Mark Twain:
“The government of my country snubs honest simplicity
but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have
developed into a very capable pickpocket
if I had remained in the public service
a year or two.”
Alexis de Tocqueville:
“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which
covers the surface of society with a network of
complicated rules, through which, the most
original minds - and the most energetic
characters cannot penetrate. It does
not tyrannise, but it compresses,
enervates, extinguishes... and
stupefies a people, until each
nation is reduced to nothing
better than a flock of timid
& industrious animals, of
which, the government
is the shepherd.”
William Godwin:
''The true key of the universe, is love.''
Joe Klein:
''When Jennifer Rubin or Abe Foxman calls me antisemitic,
they're wrong. I am anti-neoconservative. I think these
people are following very perversely extremist
policies and I really did believe that it was
time for mainstream Jews to stand up
and say, "They don't represent us,
they don't represent Israel."
Tim Wise:
''If we dont figure out a way to create equity,
real equity of opportunity and access to
good schools, housing, health care,
and decent paying jobs, we're not
going to survive as a productive
and healthy society.''
Horace:
''He who postpones the hour of living rightly,
is like the rustic who waits for the river
to run out... before he crosses.''
Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist:
''Why.. did they force us to close the banks?
To instil fear in people; and spreading fear,
is called terrorism.''
John Masefield:
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song.
Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
Linus Pauling:
''We must not have a Nuclear war. We must begin to solve
international disputes by the application of man's power
of reason, in a way that is worthy of the dignity of man.
We must solve them by arbitration, negotiation --- and
the development of international law, the making of
international agreements that will do justice to all
nations and to all peoples ------ and will benefit all
nations and all people. Now is the time to start.
''Francis Lieber:
''Races are very often invented from
ignorance, or for evil purposes.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
We, Negroes of Africa, we raise our indignant protestation against
the fate of our brothers in America. Shame to those Americans
who feign to be civilized, but who have not yet condemned, by
law, the outrage of lynching, and who continue to torture 15
millions of our brothers! Let the so-called civilized nations
stop a wholesale trade of Negroes by the purchase and
sale of Colonies -- after having condemned the slave
trade in detail! No more transfer of territories with
their inhabitants, as that recently effected by
Denmark! This is the most modern, and the
most monstrous form, of the slave trade.
Cesar Chavez:
''Though many of the poor have come to see the
affluent middle class as its enemy, that class
actually stands between the poor and
the real powers in this society - the
administrative octopus with its
head in Washington, the
conglomerates, the
military complex.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
What do we want in the Colonies—we subjects—or, by special
favour and grudgingly made, citizens? We want the laws that
concentrate and codify despotism repealed. There are no
half- measures! A new constitution is needed in the
Colonies. When a member is gangrenous, it is
necessary to intervene quickly; remove the
member by amputation. That’s what the
surgeon does. If it happens... that he
hesitates, lingers, delays, ignorant
pain is aggravated—the disease
gains ground, then an ignorant
adventurer takes a scalpel
- and wounds the healthy
organ, while attempting
to remove the affected
member.''
As positions in the transitional government
went to representatives of the neo-fascist
group, Svoboda, which was condemned
by the EU, in 2012, Viktor Yanukovych:
"Have you become blind? Have
you forgotten what fascism is?"
George Sand:
''Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a
condition of intellectual magnificence, to which
we must cling, as to a treasure, and not
squander on our way through life, in
the small coin of empty words, or
in exact and priggish argument.''
Indonesia's President Sukarno:
''What can we do? We can do much! We can inject the voice
of reason --- into world affairs. We can mobilise all the
spiritual, all the moral, all the political strength of
Asia & Africa on the side of peace. Yes, we! We,
the peoples of Asia and Africa, 1,400,000,000
strong, far more than half the human
population of the world --- we can
mobilise what I have called the
Moral Violence of Nations in
favour of peace.''
Sukarno:
''We can demonstrate to the minority of the world which lives
on the other continents, that we, the majority are for peace,
not for war, and that whatever strength we have will always
be thrown on to the side of peace.''
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
''Faith is the bird that feels the light
when the dawn is still dark.''
Patch Adams:
''Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your
life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas,
experiences. Try to live your gratitude.''
Oswald Spengler:
"Democracy has become a weapon of moneyed interests. It
uses the media to create the illusion that there is consent
from the governed. The press today is an army with
carefully organized weapons, the journalists its
officers, the readers, its soldiers. The reader
neither knows nor is supposed to know, the
purposes for which he is used and the role
he is to play. The notion of democracy is
often no different - than living under a
plutocracy, or a government by
wealthy elites."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
''Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.''
W. E. B. Du Bois:
“Beneath the Veil lay right and wrong, vengeance and love,
and sometimes throwing aside the veil, a soul of sweet
Beauty and Truth stood revealed.”
Daniel Ellsberg:
''Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew
that it involved making threats --- of nuclear war to North Vietnam.''
Angela Davis:
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they
disappear... human beings. Homelessness,
unemployment, drug addiction, mental
illness, and illiteracy, are only a few
of the problems.. that disappear
from public view --- when the
human beings contending
with them are relegated
to cages.”
Huey P. Newton
''The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas.
They occupy them --- by sending soldiers there, by
sending policeman there. These policemen - or
soldiers, are only a gun in the establishment's
hand. They make the racist secure --- in his
racism. The gun in the establishment's
hand --- makes the establishment
secure in its exploitation.''
The Global Times:
"History teaches us, that the decline of a
hegemon often begins with its currency."
Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew:
“For America to be displaced by an Asian people long despised
and dismissed with contempt as decadent, feeble, corrupt and
inept, is emotionally very difficult to accept. The sense of cultural supremacy of the Americans, will make this
adjustment most difficult.”
Doug Rokke, the US Army's health physicist, who oversaw
a partial clean up of depleted uranium bomb fragments in Kuwait, is now sick. His body registers 5,000 times the
level of radiation considered “safe”:
“There can be no reasonable doubt about this. As a result
of the heavy metal and radiological poison of DU, people
in southern Iraq are experiencing respiratory problems,
kidney problems, and cancers. Members of my own
team have died, or are dying, from cancer.”
M. K. Bhadrakumar:
''The NATO declared last year that seven NATO countries
contributed dual-capable aircraft to the nuclear sharing
mission. These countries are believed to be -- the US,
Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey and
Greece. And all --- are signatories to the NPT!
Welcome to the “rules based order”! What
is perfectly permissible to the West is
forbidden for Russia!''
Mark Twain:
“Who are the oppressors? The few: the king, the capitalist
and a handful of other overseers and superintendents.
Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of
the earth; the valuable personages; the workers;
they that make the bread that the soft-handed
and idle eat.”
Simón Bolívar:
''God grants victory to perseverance.''
M. K. Bhadrakumar:
''The crux of the matter is, as with the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 the Russian decision on tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus is retaliatory --- drawing attention to the US missiles stationed close to its borders. (An estimated 100 nuclear weapons, are stored in vaults in five European countries, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands.... and Turkey.)''
''Worse still the US practices a controversial arrangement
known as “nuclear sharing” -- in which it installs nuclear equipment on fighter jets of ''select'' non-nuclear NATO
countries --- and trains their pilots to carry out nuclear
strikes with US nuclear bombs.''
Daniel Berrigan:
''Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture
of good order, the burning of paper, instead
of children. How many must die before our
voices are heard, how many must be
tortured, dislocated, starved,
maddened? When, at what
point, will you say no
to this war?'
'President Putin:
"The Soviet Union once withdrew its troops from Germany - and
ended the de facto occupation of the country. The Americans,
as you know, do not, they continue to occupy Germany. But
the point is that the Europeans, in my opinion, have lost
the gene of independence, sovereignty, and national
interest. The more they are hit on the nose, or on
the top of the head ----- the lower they bend, and
smile more broadly. Everything -- in my opinion
-- will change sometime.. but when it will happen.. it's still difficult to say now. Sometimes I think that whatever they are told from overseas, they will do."
Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova:
''Recently, the Verkhovna Rada approved in the first reading, the
bill: "On Strengthening Democratic Civil Control over the Armed
Forces of Ukraine". It restricts the ability of military personnel
to participate in the political life of the country. Clear. The
political life of the Kiev regime, is something sacred and
belongs to those who occupied the offices on Bankova
Street. And those to whom the Kiev regime, together
with V.A. Zelensky, arranged their fate and form
their reality as cannon fodder, should not care
about any management institutions and the
implementation of such opportunities.
They, will be prohibited from such
options as becoming deputies at
any level -- or of making public
statements. They, are limited
in any manifestation of their
own opinion on domestic
political issues.''
Italy's Defence Minister:
“In recent years, 366 Italian military personnel have died,
and 7,500 have taken sick, with conditions potentially
linked to depleted uranium, prompting courts in Italy
to demand compensation, despite denials from
military officials, that any link existed.”
Chris Hedges:
''The pimps of war, leaping from fiasco to fiasco, cling to the
chimera of U.S. global supremacy. The dance macabre will
not stop until we publicly hold them accountable for their
crimes, ask those we have wronged for forgiveness and
give up our lust for uncontested global power. The day
of reckoning, vital if we are to protect what is left of
our anemic democracy and curb the appetites of
the war machine, will only come when we build
mass anti-war organizations that demand an
end to the imperial folly threatening to
extinguish life on the planet.''
Margarita Simonyan:
''People who throw bound women into the moat --- after
shooting them – The Hague has no complaints about
them. People who bullied our servicemen --- The
Hague has no complaints against them. People
who shot at houses in Mariupol – The Hague
has no complaints about them. The Hague
has no complaints --- about those who
started all this.. in 2014. There are
complaints: against Maria Lvova-
Belova, for taking out children
from orphanages from under
shelling, evacuating them –
and now -- The Hague will
chase after her, for this.''
Dmitry Medvedev:
“The behaviour of Washington and others, this year
- is the last warning to all nations; there can be no
business with the Anglo-Saxon world: it is a thief,
a swindler, a card-sharp, that could do anything.”
Ugandan foreign minister, Jeje Odongo, Feb. 28th, 2023:
“We were colonized and forgave those who colonized
us. Now, the colonizers are asking us to be enemies
of Russia, who never colonized us. Is that fair? Not
for us. Their enemies are their enemies. Our
friends are our friends.”
Namibia’s P.M. Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila:
“We, are promoting a peaceful resolution of the
Ukraine conflict -- so that the entire world and
all the resources of the world can be focused
on improving the conditions of people around
the world -- instead of being spent on
acquiring weapons, killing people,
and actually creating hostilities.”
Edward Young:
''A God all mercy, is a God unjust.''
Ms. Alena Douhan, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the
negative impact of unilateral coercive measures:
"Secondary sanctions or threats of secondary
sanctions and civil and criminal penalties,
are illegal."
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang:
"The United States talks a lot about following rules.
But imagine two athletes competing in an Olympic
race. If one athlete, instead of focusing on giving
one's best, always tries to trip or even injure the
other, that is not fair competition, but malicious
confrontation and a foul!"
Cong Yi professor of Finance & Economics Tianjin University:
"Unlike the West's approach of exploitation, China stresses cooperation and win-win results. While the US is making
all kinds of noise.. in the short term, China's mutually
beneficial and win-win development, is in line with
the development interests of most countries and therefore, will be welcomed."
Caitlin Johnstone:
''They don’t work so hard to manufacture our consent because
it’s fun for them, they work so hard to manufacture
our consent, because they require our consent.
So it’s important that we don’t give it to them.
It’s important that we forcefully oppose the
global conflict the US-centralized empire
is pushing us all towards, and that we
vocally decry the propaganda that’s
being used to grease the wheels
of that depraved agenda.''
''Ultimately the powerful have no answer to the problem that
there are a whole lot more of us than there are of them and
that there’s really nothing they can do if we decide not to
be ruled by them anymore.''
''Sooner or later, the giant that these monsters have been
keeping in a propaganda-induced coma, is going to start
stirring. We’re going to have to wake up sooner or later,
& because of the stakes involved, it is very important
that we do everything we can, to try and make sure
that it is sooner.''
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Tuesday:
"If the US does not hit the brake but continues
to speed down the wrong path, no amount of
guardrails can prevent derailing, and there
will surely be conflict and confrontation."
President Kennedy's American University
speech in 1963, ended with these words:
“We must do our part to build a world of peace
where the weak are safe and the strong are
just. We are not helpless before that task
or hopeless for its success. Confident
and unafraid, we must labour on
towards a strategy of peace.”
In October 2022 Cambridge University harmonized
137 countries' surveys on their attitudes towards
the West and towards Russia and China:
''Of 6.3 billion people who live outside the West,
66% feel positively towards Russia - and 70%
feel positively towards China. Of the 66%
feeling positive about Russia 75% are in
South Asia, 68% in Francophone Africa,
62% in S.E. Asia. Opinion of Russia
remains positive, in Saudi Arabia,
Malaysia, India, Pakistan
and Vietnam.''
Evan Reif, explaining post-war W. Germany:
''The state machinery once called the Greater German
Reich, had now simply been absorbed into a new
structure, now called the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO). Now in the position of
the deputy, Ernst Albrecht took on the
same role his boss had in the 1940s,
this time with “blood and soil”
replaced with “European
values.”
Ernst Albrecht, father of Ursula von
der Leyen (born Ursula Albrecht):
“If we succeed in bringing people of above-average
capabilities to governance, an autocracy, or the
rule of the few, will be able to create a better
order, than the rule of the people.”
Richard Darré, Ernst Albrecht's Nazi S.S. boss:
“By blitzkrieg -- before autumn -- we shall be the absolute masters of two continents, a new aristocracy of German masters will be created…. slaves assigned to it. These
slaves to be their property and to consist of landless,
non-German nationals. We actually have in mind, a
modern form of medieval slavery, which we must
and will introduce, because we urgently need it -
in order to fulfill our great tasks. These slaves
will by no means be denied the blessings of
illiteracy; higher education will, in future,
be reserved only for the German
population of Europe.”
India’s foreign minister, S. Jaishankar:
“Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe’s
problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s
problems are not Europe’s problems.”
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Executive Director, Task Force
on National & Homeland Security. October 31, 2020:
''The one mission that makes the most sense for Poseidon,
not mentioned by Russia, is trailing and destroying at-sea
SSBNs. Nuclear-powered Poseidon -- could tail SSBNs for months or years - waiting outside ports for their target to resume patrols. Artificially intelligent Poseidon, could be
programmed - to recognize the acoustic signature of its
target submarine, & detonate on command. The lethal
radius of a 100-megaton warhead against submarines
--- is over 100 kilometres. Russia plans to deploy 32
Poseidons. Perhaps not coincidentally -- enough to
assign two Poseidons to tail each of 12 Columbia
SSBNs and 8 Poseidons to target the 8 SSBNs of
allies Britain and France."
Robert Freeman:
''Last year, the ruble reached its highest exchange rate
in history. Russia’s 2022 trade surplus of $227 billion,
was up 86 percent from 2021. The U.S.’ trade deficit
over the same period, rose 12.2 percent, and is
approaching $1 trillion.''
Uriel Araujo, researcher, on Nord Stream:
''In Germany - right now - only Die Linke has supported
AfD calls for an investigation.. but more voices within
the German broader political spectrum are expected
to join them.''
President Xi Jinping, in June 2022:
“As important emerging markets --- and major developing
countries, the BRICS nations should take responsibility
and take action --- to bring positive, stabilizing and
constructive forces to the world. It is necessary
to uphold justice, equality and solidarity and
reject hegemony, bullying and division.”
John Jay Chapman:
''There are lots of people who cannot think
deeply ------ without damaging their minds.'
Cymraeg {Welsh} actor, Richard Burton:
It made me feel, what strong, what
wonderful people, do I come from,
that they helped to give me my
form, my strength”.
Pepe Escobar:
''...were Tehran to play hardball, the US Navy or military
could never keep the Strait of Hormuz open – by the
admission of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Oil prices
in this case, would rise to possibly thousands of
dollars a barrel, according to Goldman Sachs
oil derivative experts – and that would
crash the entire world economy.''
Feofan, priest tortured in Ukrainian captivity:
“I am confident - that Russia is in the process of
writing a new chronicle of its greatness, in the
best sense of the word. The fate of the world
is being decided in Donbass --- right now.
We all realized that, in 2014, but we
understand it even more clearly,
right now.”
Chunga:
''The USA is basically a fiat printing
press - masquerading as a country.''
Tsar Nicholas II:
''Tell everyone that the evil that is in the world
will grow even stronger, but that it is not evil
that will triumph, but love.''
William Schryver:
''The US empire’s most acute concern in recent years
had been the discernible advance of Russo-German
reconciliation and economic collaboration. Going
back over a century, this prospect... has always
been understood as the single greatest threat
to Anglo-American dominance of the western
world, and hence a development that must
be arrested before it can ever
gain momentum.''
William Schryver:
''The [US] imperial masters do not hold genuine aspirations
to spread righteousness and prosperity around the world.
As with all declining empires that preceded this one,
the imperial elite aspire to dominion as an end per
se. It is the self-satisfaction of unquestioned
primacy, that is the ultimate wellspring of
all their actions - at least insofar as the
apparatus of tribute and plunder
remains adequately intact.
''Therefore, in the context of a “collective security
architecture” in Europe, it is not the alleged
threat of despotic Russian expansionism
that has motivated imperial actions, but
rather.. the thought that the Europeans
themselves would agree to a mutually
satisfactory multilateral security
arrangement -- and then firmly
request.. that the Americans
finally take all their military
toys and go home.
''Concerningly, it has become increasingly evident that
the empire would rather rule over the ashes and
rubble of Europe than permit its constituent
nations to reclaim their sovereignty on
their own terms, and by their
own volition.''
Blogger:
''When I was a kid in High School, there was one big
guy who was bullying his classmates.. a different
one everyday, slapping them for no reason, etc..
One day - one did not want to take it anymore &
jumped to his neck choking him; both fell to the
ground but he kept the choking. Then all of the
classmates jumped in and started beating and
kicking the bullying guy and nearly killed him.
He never returned ------ dropped out of school.
That, is what the world needs to do with the
US. The world is sick of these US criminals.
The US ---- has no interest in cooperation, working together etc, in their delusion, they think they are entitled to subdue the world ------- and rule the planet.''
Charles Mackay:
What might be done if men were wise —
What glorious deeds, my suffering brother,
Would they unite,
In love and right,
And cease their scorn of one another?
Oppression's heart might be imbued
With kindling drops of loving-kindness,
And knowledge pour,
From shore to shore,
Light on the eyes of mental blindness.
All slavery, warfare, lies, and wrongs,
All vice and crime might die together;
And wine and corn,
To each man born,
Be free as warmth in summer weather.
The meanest wretch that ever trod,
The deepest sunk in guilt and sorrow,
Might stand erect
In self-respect,
And share the teeming world to-morrow.
What might be done? This might be done,
And more than this, my suffering brother —
More than the tongue
Ever said or sung,
If men were wise and loved each other.
Serbia's Colonel General Ratko Mladic:
''I think it is time for all peace-loving people
of this world, to start pondering where all
this leads. I think it's high time that the
weapons in this part of the world,
and all over the world, were
silenced.''
George Washington:
''My first wish, is to see this plague
of mankind, war, banished from
the earth.''
August Strindberg:
“There are poisons that blind you,
and poisons that open your eyes.”
Jon Cruddas, MP for Dagenham and Rainham:
''We bet the ranch on the private oligopoly of house
builders, but it’s in their interests to bank land and
ration housing, so that house prices continue to
rocket. So you have a structural undersupply,
at the same time as we live longer and
decouple earlier.''
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
''I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''We demand respect for the territorial integrity and the national
independence of the rare African states... or states of African
origin, which still possess their autonomy. Abyssinia, Liberia,
Haiti and St. Domingo, are striking proofs of the organizing
and political genius of Negroes, notwithstanding their
persistant sabotage by nations eager for conquest.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''It is sufficient to say that even today, in the Colonies, there
are Administrators who insert like suppositories, cartridges
of dynamite in the natives, and order them to run; then
suddenly the dynamite explodes -- and the natives are
blown to pieces. This happens in the French colonies!''
Douglas Macgregor:
''Russia is forcing Ukraine.. to
stare annihilation in the face.''
Dmitry Medvedev:
“Soon, the Kyiv regime
will have no sea at all.”
US president, John Tyler:
''I should be pleased to see all the nations
on the earth, prosperous and happy and
rich, for it would furnish to me the best
evidence of the prosperity of my
native land.''
Harold Wilson:
''There is no future for Britain in a Little England
philosophy. There is no future either, for
anyone, in a Little Europe philosophy.''
G.K. Chesterton:
“When the Founding Fathers talked about democracy
they did indeed mean, doubtless, the government of
the people, by the people, for the people. But they
meant the government of the people they knew,
by the people they knew, for the people
they knew.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski warned the USUK:
“Potentially the most dangerous scenario would be
a grand coalition between Russia, China and Iran.”
Former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski:
"Corruption and megalomania, have
brought Ukraine to its current state."
Evo Morales:
“Superiority, is so important to them - the ability to
dominate. It’s reprehensible that they don’t have
a principle of humanity, of brotherhood. They
are, instead, slaves to the policies of how
to dominate.”
Batiushka:
''At present.... the Ukraine is surrounded by nearly 700,000
Russian troops. As they are not taking part in the fighting in Bakhmut or anywhere else, it is assumed that they are
being held back ----- to form a future Army of Occupation
after Bakhmut. They will restore freedom and normal life
to every Ukrainian who wants to get rid of their Western
-enforced isolation.... and join a Free Ukraine allied with
the Russian Federation and Belarus and the Free World
of international organisations ---- like the EEU (the
Eurasian Economic Union), BRICS, and the SCO.
They all represent the seven billion ---- the 88%
of the world who constitute the Global North,
the Global South and the Global East. The
million or two isolationists who do not
want this, will flee across the Polish
border ------ together with Zelensky
and his corrupt clique ------ if they
are still alive by then.''
Ukrainian writer Larisa Nitsoi tweets ------- Russia
supporters must wear a red star on their clothes:
"...this is not segregation, we're not fascist Germany,
people just need to understand who is around them."
Mike Whitney:
"The plan to engage Russia militarily is a tacit
admission: that the United States can no
longer maintain its global dominance
through economic or political
means alone."
The new Czech President, General
Pavel's, election campaign slogan:
"It's time to use the big guns."
Humpty Dumpty:
“When I use a word... it means just what I
choose it to mean, neither more nor less."
Mr Volodin, Speaker of the Duma:
"If Washington and the NATO countries supply
weapons that will be used to strike civilian
cities and attempt to seize our territories
- as they threaten - this will lead to
retaliatory measures -- using
more powerful weapons."
Oleg Nesterenko:
''Since 2014, the beginning of the conflict provoked by
the US in Ukraine, through a coup d’état --- Russia has
got rid of almost all US debt. Whereas in 2010, Russia
was one of the top 10 holders of U.S. Treasury bonds,
with over $176 billion, in 2015, it held only about $90
billion, meaning that the total mass of these assets
had almost halved, in 5 years. Today, Russia holds
only about two billion in U.S. debt, an extremely
insignificant amount, comparable to the
mathematical error of the global
Treasury bond market.''
Maria Zakharova:
''You in the West have long since lost any notion of true values
based on love. It is impossible to believe, that the West is now
supplying German tanks - to where they have already brought so much trouble & suffering, killing tens of millions of people. Like imagining - that you know what love, compassion, honour, conscience are, after all.''
Zakharova's visceral excoriation of Scholz:
''Perhaps the only thing more concerning and disgusting,
than Germany sending its tanks to fight against Russia,
is the almost total lack of discussion within its media
and political class --- their utter disregard for how
Russia will perceive it, and - most of all - the
total fecklessness and subordination of
the German people, judging by the
public's lack of reaction.''
India's Mahabharata:
Q: “is it permitted to wage war against one’s brothers?”
A: “It is permitted, but only if there is sorrow in your
heart.”
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 29/4/1938:
"The first truth -- is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power -- to a point where it becomes stronger... than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism: the ownership of Government by an individual, by a group.... or by any other controlling private power.
The second truth -- is that the liberty of a democracy isn't safe -- if its business system doesn't provide employment and produce amd distribute goods in such a way... as to sustain an acceptable standard of living."
Former US President Donald Trump, to Biden:
“First come the tanks --- then come the nukes.
Get this crazy war ended, now. So easy to do.”
Scott Ritter:
''NATO is a Suicide Pill for the World. Pray that Russia Wins.''
Serbian President Vucic on West's current agenda:
"What worries me is that there is no longer a rational
approach to solving problems. I saw this at the
meeting with the Big Five. No matter what
I said - and no matter what facts I gave -
no one wanted to listen to me. Reason
no longer plays any role. They have
their own agenda, and that is the
defeat of Russia, and along the
way, anyone who gets in their
way...... will be mopped up."
Calgacus, in AD 84:
''Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder
exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy is
rich, they are rapacious; if he is poor, they lust for
control; neither the east nor the west has been
able to satisfy them. Alone among men they
covet with equal eagerness poverty and
riches. To robbery, slaughter and
plunder, they give the lying
name of empire; they
create a wilderness
and call it peace.''
Bundestag (AfD) deputy Petr Bystron:
“You are bringing German tanks against Russia in Ukraine.
Your grandfathers already tried to do this then with the
Melniks and Banderas, as they do - again - now. And
what is the result? Result, Russian tanks, are here
in Berlin. And you pass by two of them every day
on your way here. The Russians have over
10,000 tanks and can mobilize 2 million
men. Two hundred of our tanks are of
no importance. This conflict cannot
be won militarily."
Ursula von der Leyen:
"When my own children join the armed forces,
and it will be necessary to deploy them, then
I will indeed be afraid like any other mother."
Interviewer: "Is one of your 7
children in the armed forces?"
Ursula von der Leyen: "No,
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."
Giuseppe Biden:
“18 FBI agents have verified - that Hunter
Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation!”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
"We know... they are lying.
They know they are lying.
They know that we know
they are lying. We know
that they know that we
Know they are lying.
And still...... they
continue to lie."
Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK:
"Most of the weapons supplied to the Ukrainian Armed
Forces from Western countries are outdated, they just
expired. If you want to dispose of it ------- give it to us."
''Given the fact that -- despite the pressure of
unprecedented Western sanctions Russia
continues to maintain both healthy state
finances, an insignificant public debt, a
trade surplus, and no budget deficit --
the confrontation in Ukraine, cannot
but be won by Russia --- in one form
or another. The irreversibility of the
process --- makes it inadvisable to
'substantially' revise US strategy
toward Ukraine, which could be
reflected in an additional signif-
icant increase in quantitative
and qualitative... military and
financial support, especially
since such an initiative......
proportionally increases
the risks ------ of nuclear
strikes on US territory.''
Condoleezza Rice, then US secretary
of state ----- in her 2014 TV interview:
“In the long term.. we just want to change the
structure of [the EU’s] energy dependence.
Make it more dependent on the North
American energy platform, on the
excellent abundance of oil and
gas found in North America.”
Hugo Dionísio:
''The total submission of the G7 countries and the EU
to the dictates of NATO, an organization created to
groom them, which today is confused with the EU
itself; the blind application of all economic and
financial sanctions and guidelines; the lack of
protection mechanisms for the respective
internal markets… All this has the effect
that we are witnessing, which had been
foreseen by so many silenced people -
throughout this time. How they must
hate to be right.''
Michael Hudson:
''United States Treasury officials have told me that
all they need to do is give little white envelopes
filled with dollar bills and they’ve been able to
control European politics.''
Charles Higham - a half-Jewish Briton
whose family perished in Nazi camps:
''....the US government could do nothing about the
collaborative ventures - including strategic ones -
of US conglomerates, with Nazi Germany, during
the war. The only person to protest to Roosevelt
about these practices.. was the Supreme Court
Justice, Felix Frankfurter. Roosevelt... told him
that - if he took prohibitive measures --- there
was the expressed risk --- that Big Business
would retaliate by stopping war production
and that he, Roosevelt, could do nothing
about it. Roosevelt suggested, that too
many US political leaders were bound or held by Big Business, to hope for a
successful mobilisation of coercion.
This marks the pathetic limits of the
true extent of US political power in
relation to other dominant forces."
Posted by OohCanada on Moon of Alabama:
''2 weeks ago, the west announced Ukraine's new
package of weapons and the Russians stated the western supply routes will be targeted ---- (west
Ukraine got smashed) ---- This time, they were
targeted with missles... that Nato didn't even
detect & instantly everyone walked it back.
''They look like fools and will either need to send those
goods or just get it over with and fold. The Russians
pointed to Ukraine's obsolete air defense as a huge
weakness (they mean Nato's current systems that Ukraine uses).
''The realization that they can bomb people in bed
without a warning must have a few money men
in the west stressed right out.''
Lula da Silva:
“We need to rescue the model of state institutions,
public banks, and state-owned companies in the
development of this country. Brazil is too big, to
renounce its productive potential. It makes no
sense to import fuels, fertilizers, oil platforms,
aircraft and satellites. We have sufficient
technical capacity and market, to
resume industrialisation.”
Oleg Nesterenko:
''Only an extremely aggressive U.S. foreign policy, backed by world military & monetary domination
allows the US to occupy its current position. Any
other state which had committed even a fraction
of [its] crimes would be classified by the “inter-
national community” gathered around the US,
as a criminal, pariah state and would be
subject to a “legal” embargo more
serious than that of North
Korea, Iran and Cuba..
combined.''
Lugansk republic’s acting head, Pasechnik:
"The situation at the front, is complicated by the
fact that - today - we are fighting not only with the Ukrainian army: there are many foreign
mercenaries and instructors, in the
ranks of the enemy. We know that
thousands of mercenaries, from
more than fifty countries, are
fighting in the ranks of the
Ukrainian Nazis, mainly
from Eastern Europe."
Patrushev:
''We are not at war with Ukraine, because by definition, we cannot have hatred for ordinary Ukrainians. Ukrainian traditions, are close to the people of Russia, just as the heritage of the Russian people.. is inseparable from the culture of Ukrainians. And... the sooner the citizens of Ukraine realize - that the West is
fighting Russia with their hands, the more lives will be saved. Many people have long realized this ------- but they are afraid to declare it, for fear of reprisals. The West does not plan to save anyone's life --- at the expense of its own enrichment -- and other ambitions.''
Patrushev:
''That sudden withdrawal of the Americans from
[Afghanistan] as it turned out, was largely due
to focusing on Ukraine, where -- according to
their estimates -- the preparation of the Kiev
puppet regime.. for offensive anti-Russian
actions, was going well. By the way, this
was confirmed by US Secretary of State
Blinken, who said that if the US military
had not left Afghanistan --- Washington
would not have been able to allocate
so much money to Ukraine.''
Former US Senator Richard Blake:
“We don’t care how many Ukrainians will die. How
many women, children, civilians and military. We
don’t care. Ukraine cannot take the peace
decision. The peace decision can only be
taken in Washington. But, for now, we
want to continue this war --- we will
fight --- to the last Ukrainian.”
Jason Michael McCann:
''What journalists in the western media... in the US and Europe didn't realise.. between 2014 and the Russian
invasion, was that these Ukrainian Nazis, both in the US and in the Nazi battalions of the Ukrainian army,
are important C.I.A. assets. As ideological fighters they are committed to their hatred of Russia. The
US State Department, trusts them more than any
other political group or faction in Ukraine.These
are the people that the US government has been working with funding & training for almost eight
decades. In the US’ global fight against Russia,
these Nazis have to be protected at all costs --
they are essential to the US plan in Ukraine.''
saying in the US in the 1960's:
"War is good for business, invest your son."
saying in the US in the 2020's:
''War is good for business, invest
your overweight, gender-fluid,
adopted, educationally
challenged, halfwit.''
A Russian Officer's wife speaks at a mourning rally
dedicated to Russian fighters killed in Makeyevka:
''The whole West is rallying to destroy us - us and our children - but I assure you, our husbands and sons
will not allow it... for the inconsolable widows,
for the orphans. We will not forgive, and
victory will definitely be ours.''
Rob Endert:
''If Bakhmut is the central logistic hub for the last
defensive belt, then... by putting Bakhmut in a
difficult position prevents it from playing this
vital logistic role. The current situation is
already a Russian strategic success,
even before Bakhmut has fallen.''
Pierre de Gaulle, Grandson of President de Gaulle:
''I think that public opinion in France is beginning
to understand what the malicious game of the
Americans is today. Using lies primarily when
communicating with allies within NATO -- the
United States managed to use the Ukrainian
crisis to destabilize Europe.''
R. Buckminster Fuller:
''Sadly we see enormous numbers of stranded poverty
stricken people, while potential abundance, is being
deliberately curtailed by governments subservient
to the landlord’s will. Humanity is so accustomed
to failure it still assumes failure to be normal and
does not realize that it has literally earned – and
actually acquired - the capability to take care of
everyone on earth at a higher standard of living
than ever - heretofore - experienced by anyone.
The really big fact is that we are going to have
to go through, a complete mental resorting of
what its all about. Then we are going to have
to go about taking care of everybody, not as
''on relief'' but with the same spontaneous
welcome and love..... accorded a new-
born baby. Landlordism will no longer
be able to extract a ransom. Money
too, will become obsolete, with the
ability to produce enough - to take
care of all. The fact, that we now
have the capability to support all
life, and are not doing so, means
we have to introduce... a new
system. One that can make
the world work.''
Dmitry Medvedev on May 11th, 2022:
''The US House of Representatives has approved a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine. Biden asked for less, but - from the bounty - they threw in a couple more billion. The money is huge and there will be a lot
of hunters to share it, in the American military-
industrial complex. Not to mention, the banal
thieves on both sides of the ocean. It is quite
obvious that “aid” on such an unprecedented
scale isn't at all explained by love for Ukraine
--- and not even support for its own economy. Its goal.. is to continue a proxy war against
Russia, the desire to inflict a heavy defeat
on our country ---- to limit its economic
development and political influence
in the world. It will not work. Their
printing press, due to which, the US
is constantly increasing its already
inflated national debt --- will break
faster. Not to mention.. the insane
prices.. for gasoline and food, for
the growth of which, Americans
should thank their Russophobic
authorities. But the goals of the special operation... will be achieved.''
Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:
''If you cannot sleep because of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, here are pieces of advice, to calm yourself. Firstly, imagine this is happening in Africa. Imagine
it's happening in the Middle East. Imagine Ukraine
as Palestine. Imagine Russia is the United States.''
Karl Marx from ‘Capital: A Critique
of Political Economy, Volume I’:
''The discovery of gold and silver in America, the
expiration, enslavement and entombment in
mines, of the indigenous population of that
continent, the beginnings of the conquest
and plunder of India, and the conversion
of Africa, into a preserve for the
commercial hunting of black
skins.. are all things which
characterize the dawn of
the era of capitalist
production.''
''These idyllic proceedings, are the chief moments
of primitive accumulation. The different moments
of primitive accumulation -- can be assigned in
particular to Spain, Portugal, Holland, France,
and England, in more or less chronological
order. These moments are systematically
combined together ...at the end of the
seventeenth century in England;- the
combination embraces the colonies,
the national debt.... the modern tax
system --------------- and the system of
protection. These methods depend
in part on brute force, for example,
the colonial system. But, they all
employ the power of the state ---
the concentrated and organised
force of society, to hasten, hot-
house fashion, the process of
transformation of the feudal
mode of production into the
capitalist mode ---- and to
shorten the transition.''

Chinese Foreign Ministry:
''85 percent of the world's population
- has not imposed sanctions against
Russia: only the majority represent
the international community."
President Putin:
''The situation in the world is changing dynamically,
and the outlines of a multipolar world order --- are
taking shape. An increasing number of countries
and peoples - are choosing a path of free and
sovereign development based on their own
distinct identity, traditions and values.''
''These objective processes... are being opposed by the
Western globalist elites, who provoke chaos, fanning
long-standing & new conflicts, and pursuing the so-
called containment policy, which, in fact, amounts
to the subversion.. of any alternative, sovereign
development options. Thus -- they are doing all
they can, to keep hold onto the hegemony and
power that are slipping from their hands; they
are attempting to retain countries & peoples
in a grip of what is essentially a neocolonial
order. Their hegemony.. means stagnation for the rest of the world & for the entire
civilisation; it means obscurantism,
the cancellation of culture, and
neoliberal totalitarianism.''
Timothy Leary (1920-1996):
"Almost everyone today is brain-damaged
by our education, which is designed to
produce docile automatons."
General Sherman, told his wife his purpose:
''Extermination --- not of soldiers alone, that is
the least part of the trouble --- but the people.''
Historian Lee Kennett, in
his biography of Sherman:
“Had the Confederates somehow won, had their
victory put them in position to bring their chief
opponents before some sort of tribunal, they
would have found themselves justified in
stringing up President Lincoln and the
entire Union high command --- for
violation of the laws of war ---
specifically, for waging war
against noncombatants.”
Jeremy Kuzmarov:
“Former Bolivian President Evo Morales calls
for a global campaign --- to eliminate NATO.”
Evo Morales:
“Julian Assange's detention --- represents an escalation,
an intimidation: so that all the crimes against humanity
committed by the different governments of the United
States --- are never revealed. So many interventions, so many invasions, so much looting.”
Milagros Pichardo Pérez:
''Even the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López
Obrador, directly asked his counterpart, Joe Biden,
to release the founder of the WikiLeaks portal, to
whom he "opens the doors of his country," and
described him as "the best journalist of our
time." He also considered, that the
treatment he has received, only
"for denouncing human rights
violations", is worse than
that of a criminal.''
The UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer,
says Assange has suffered psychological torture:
"How far have we sunk?"
Robert Penn Warren wrote in his 1960 book:
“The Northerner, with his Treasury of Virtue, caused
by his victory in the Civil War, feels as though he has an indulgence; a plenary indulgence, for all sins past present & future. This indulgence is the justification
for our crusades of 1917-1918 and 1941-1945, and
our diplomacy of righteousness, with the slogan
of unconditional surrender and universal
rehabilitation --- for others.”
Thomas DiLorenzo:
''Lincoln’s war destroyed the voluntary union of
the founding fathers and replaced it with an
involuntary union held together by threat
of invasion, bloodshed, conquest,
and subjugation.''
Evo Morales:
“They think that some countries are the property
of other nations. They think God put them there,
so the world belongs to the U.S. and the UK.
That’s why the rebellions and the
uprisings will continue.”
Evo Morales:
“In politics we must ask ourselves: Are we with the
people or are we with the empire? If we are with
the people, we make a country; if we are with
the empire, we make money. If we are with
the people, we fight for life, for humanity;
if we are with the empire, we are with
the politics of death, the culture of
death, interventions and pillaging
of the people. That is what we
ask ourselves as humans,
as leaders: ‘Are we
at the service of
our people?’”
Yves Smith of 'Naked Capitalism':
“Despite the aggressive Western sanctions….... Russia
has been very restrained, as far as counter-measures
are concerned. So, after loudly saying that the EU
wants nothing to do with Russian energy, or
Russian pipelines... the EU should hardly
be upset, if Russia is tired of laboring
not to give them what they asked
for, an economic divorce. The
problem is, Europe is now
upset, that it’s getting
what it acted like
it wanted.”
Catherine the Great, of Russia:
''A man ought to form, in his own mind, an exact
and clear Idea of what liberty is. Liberty is the
right --- of doing whatsoever the laws allow:
and if any one citizen could do what the laws forbid --- there would be no more
liberty; because others would have
an equal power of doing the same.''
Ian Rankin OBE DL FRSE FRSL:
''I would have loved to have been a
rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any instruments.''
Jim Rickards:
“The economies of the US and the EU are in, or very
near to, recession. Inflation is out of control in the
West and commodity shortages will lead quickly
to food shortages and more empty shelves in
supermarkets… as economic sanctions
have backfired - with protests turning
up at all spots in the global supply
chain - including railways,
trucking, warehouses,
and ports…”
US Senator Lindsey Graham:
"I like the path we are on. As long as we
help Ukraine with the weapons it needs
and economic support, it will fight to
the last man."
Jim Rickards:
“Almost everything you heard ---- about the
war in Ukraine from US media.. was a lie.”
Ex President of Ukraine Poroshenko
who signed the Minsk Agreements:
“When I was signing it, I never intended to implement
it. We just needed more time - to get more weapons
from the West - in order to enable us to resolve the
problem of the Ukrainian East by the use of force.”
Martin Jay:
"The once-golden relationship between the US
and the EU is also coming to an end. A game
of accusations will begin ---- which will be
carefully developed over several weeks
in the media. The West needs to get
out of the conflict in Ukraine and
it needs a good reason to
turn around."
What kids in the late 1940s used
to sing, on the May day marches:
''Go home yankee, yankee go home!
We don’t want you anymore.
For the way of life you sell
Doesn’t suit us very well
And it wasn’t Errol Flynn
that won the war!''
Rachel Marsden:
“The conflict in Ukraine, risks creating the ultimate
nightmare for Western elites: an alternative group
of allies, over which the West has no control, but
with the capacity to offer opportunities that are
competitive with what their own governments
or countries are offering… Western elites are
doubling down in Ukraine to save the world
order --- that protects their own selfish
interests --- thinking that it’s the way
to prevent... a parallel option from
emerging. It’s as simple as that.
And they don’t care, if it’s the
average citizen who has to
pay the price”.
Camilo José Cela:
''There are two kinds of man:
the ones who make history -
and the ones who endure it.''
Dmitry Medvedev:
“Washington - in tandem with London - conned the Europeans like a couple of shell-game tricksters.”
Sergey Lavrov:
“The European economy is impacted -- more than
anything else. The stats show that 40 percent
of the damage caused by sanctions is borne
by the EU --- whereas the damage to the
United States is less than 1 percent.”
Kusumagraj:
"My love is deep and wide like that of the sky.
My only morality is to fight slavery.
I do not care for the restrictions of caste or creed.
I only know humanity and its service"
Richard Price:
''Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world! Take warning, all ye supporters of slavish governments, and slavish
hierarchies! Call no more (absurdly and wickedly)
reformation, innovation. You cannot now hold
the world in darkness. Restore to mankind.. their rights; and consent to the correction of abuses, before they and you are destroyed together.“
Thomas Carlyle:
“Make yourself an honest man, and then
you may be sure that there is one less
scoundrel in the world.”
Eric Zuesse, on post-soviet US aims:
''President GHW Bush, secretly informed America’s allies, starting on February 24th in 1990, “To hell
with that! We prevailed, they didn’t” ie, “they still
need to be totally and humiliatingly defeated
by us; they need to be conquered.” This ---
is the reality. No myth. America’s foreign
policies are laser-focused on crippling if
not destroying, all possible competitors.
Especially, all nations in Europe need
to know this, and to reverse course
because of it. Because --- if they
don’t, then Europe’s economies
will be crushed this coming
winter, in order to keep up
the US Government’s lies.
It is.. their choice. Either
continuing as American
vassal-nations, or else,
making a fundamental
turn, toward freedom
and justice.''
Martin Armstrong:
“There is no way they can get out of this, other than
by default. If they default, they are worried about
millions of people -- storming the parliaments of
Europe. This is really a tremendous financial
crisis that we are facing. They have been
borrowing year after year, since WWII ---
with zero intention of paying
anything back.”
Angelo Giliano, Financial & Political Analyst:
''What the collective West needs to take into account
now is ---- that they are not alone. They need to stop
their imperialist way of approaching how they see
the world. They tend to say the global world, but
when they say the global world, they only mean
maybe 15% of the population. But the problem
now is, that they don't have the weight they
used to have and they need to take into
account that you have an emergent
world and they are - we are -
living in the last days of
the imperialistic West.''
Cynthia Chung:
''Russia’s proclaimed support... in its letters to Lincoln, would be put to the test - during the summer of 1863. By then the South’s invasion of the North had failed at Gettysburg and the violent anti-war New York draft riots also failed, and Britain - as a result - was thinking of a direct military intervention --- with the backing of France.
''What would follow, marks one of the greatest displays of support for another country’s sovereignty, to
ever occur in modern history. The Russian Navy arrived on both the east and west coastlines of the US in late September and early October, in 1863.
''The timing was highly coordinated.... due to intelligence reports of when Britain and France were intending their
military action. The Russian navy would stay along the US coastline... in support of the Union, for 7 months!
They never intervened in the American civil war but rather..... remained in its waters, at the behest of Lincoln in case of a foreign power’s interference.
''If Russia had not done this, Britain and France would most certainly, have intervened on the Confederate
states behalf -- as they made clear they would and the US -- would have most certainly broken in two. At that point it was Russia’s direct naval support that allowed the US to remain whole.''
US ''Defense'' Secretary, Lloyd Austin:
“The range of HIMARS, our GMLRS round, is 80
kilometres and so that’s pretty good reach. It
has allowed and will continue to allow, to get
after those longer-range targets that they’ve
been unable to reach.”
Michael Hudson:
The philosophy of the IMF ever since world war II is
when third world countries can’t pay the debt, the
IMF comes in with an austerity program and says
you have to lower wages -- you have to break up
labour unions, if necessary you have to have a
democracy, and you can’t have a democracy
unless you’re willing to assassinate and
arrest the labour leaders and the
advocates of land redistribution
...because a democracy means
basically, rule by the financial
sector centred in the US. So..
finance capitalism ever since
WWI and especially WWII and
especially since 1980, is the
nationalistic doctrine of US
banks and the US 1%, and
the US financial sector ----
that's sort of merged into
a symbiotic unit with the
finance, insurance and
real estate.''
''In other words, finance capitalism instead of trying
to promote overall economic growth for the 99%, instead of financing the industrialization of an
economy, with rising productivity and rising
living standards, is now cannibalizing the
industrial sector, and cannibalizing the
corporate sector. As you’re seeing
in the U.S., finance capitalism
is the economic doctrine of
deindustrialization... that
has occurred in the US,
in England, and is now
occurring in Europe.''
Michael Hudson:
''You need a strong enough government to check the
power of an oligarchy and to prevent a creditor
landowner oligarchy from developing. And
libertarians... while pretending to be for
liberty, they’re for a centrally planned
economy --- but a centrally planned
economy by the oligarchy, by the
financial sector, and by the real
estate owners. So every
economy is planned.
And the question is,
who’s going to do
the planning?''
Daniel Ortega, Sandinista:
''We are a poor country that wants to take the efforts
and resources.... now being invested in defense of
the revolution and invest it in tractors and plows.
Imperialism cannot conceive of a free people,
a sovereign people, an independent people.
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