Profound Quotes

"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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WAR IS A RACKET - Major General Smedley D. Butler - USMC Retired

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Khaleej Times Online - Americans Divided by Hate Crimes Bill

Susan Fani of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights warns: “The problem in general with hate crimes legislation is that it invites the government to probe way beyond motive. And in instances like this, it trespasses on free speech and religious liberty.”
Although the bill “declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed [...]

How You Can Change The World - ANTI-FASCISM

Anti-fascism recognises that all people, regardless of their race or origin, are beautiful and deserve equal respect. In many countries in the world, those with lighter skins are valued more than those with dark skins. For example, fair Indians are promoted as beautiful in India to the exclusion of darker, southern Indians. In Latin countries [...]

ScienceDirect - Journal of Research in Personality : The role of “dark personalities” (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy), Big Five personality factors, and ideology in explaining prejudice

Gordon Hodsona, , , Sarah M. Hoggb and Cara C. MacInnisa

aBrock University, Psychology, 500 Glenridge Ave, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1
bUniversity of Saskatchewan, Psychology, 9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5K5

Available online 20 February 2009.

Abstract
The so-called Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) represent correlated subclinical personality traits capturing “dark personalities”. How might darker personalities [...]

Promised Land » Blog Archive » Israeli “Death to Arabs” Facebook group

Posted: May 7th, 2009 | Author: noam | Filed under: The Right, media, racism | Tags: Arabs, facebook, kahana, Meretz, racism |
Journalist Dimi Reider came across this Israeli Facebook group called “Death to Arabs”. Take a look (click on the picture to see it in full size):

The messages posted on the group’s [...]

OpEdNews » America’s Shame

Why does Israel have a right to exist, but Palestine doesn’t?
This is the question of our time.
For sixty years Israelis have been stealing Palestine from Palestinians. There are maps available on the Internet and in Israeli publications showing the shrinkage over time of what was once Palestine into what Palestine is today–a small number of [...]

Women’s ski jumping lawsuit wraps up in Vancouver

Legal arguments over whether Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee, known as VANOC, are at the crux of a B.C. Supreme Court case that wrapped up Friday.
Fifteen former and current women ski jumpers are suing VANOC for their sport’s exclusion from the 2010 Winter Olympics
The women say the [...]