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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Stan Goff: McChrystal & Pelosi

One can’t be sure where to start in unpacking what people need to know about this guy — Stanley McChrystal, the military-culture that is refracted in his personhood, and the peculiar institutional ecology of that military.
I don’t know Stanley McChrystal. I came in the Army a couple of years before him. We are both named [...]

Common Ground - May 09

Spies, lies & whistleblowers

by Annie Machon

Annie Machon on tour
Vancouver:
Friday, May 22, 7pm
Vancouver Public Library, Alice Mackay Rm.,
350 West Georgia St.
Tickets: $15 available through
www.vancouver911truth.org
Victoria:
Sunday, May 24, 7pm
Alix Goolden Performance Hall
907 Pandora St.
Tickets: $10 available through www.hightideconcerts.net and at the following bookstores – Victoria: Chapters, Ivy’s, Sorenson’s, Cadboro Bay Books. Sidney: Tanner’s

MY NAME is Annie Machon [...]

OpEdNews » Nagging Similarities Between JFK Assassination and 9/11

The team linked to the tragedies operated out of a weird flight school in Venice, Florida. It was run by a man from the Netherlands who spent a lot of time in Hamburg, Germany in what looked very much to be CIA type recruiting missions. That is where the alleged assassins of bin [...]

A Timeline of CIA Atrocities

A Timeline of CIA Atrocities
By Steve Kangas
A Timeline of CIA Atrocities.

OpEdNews » Stanford Antiwar Alums Call for War Crimes Investigation of Condoleezza Rice

During the Vietnam War, Stanford students succeeded in banning secret military research from campus. Last weekend, 150 activist alumni and present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza Rice for authorizing torture and misleading Americans into the illegal Iraq War.
OpEdNews » Stanford Antiwar Alums Call for War Crimes Investigation of Condoleezza Rice.

UN pushing Israel toward legal proceedings

Gaza under Israeli fire during the 22-day war.
In pursuit of the case of Israeli war crimes, the United Nations moves to report to the Security Council that UN facilities in Gaza had been targeted willfully.
After the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) compound became the target of GPS-guided Israeli mortars on January 15, the [...]

OpEdNews » Connell’s Sister Now Doubts Plane Crash Was Accident

The sister of the Rove IT guru whose small plane crashed shortly after he became “exhibit A” in a 2004 Ohio vote-rigging lawsuit has now voiced doubts that the crash was an accident. She told a Wisconsin newspaper:
“At first, it was really hard for me to believe Mike was dead because somebody wanted him [...]

ISRAEL: THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE « Desertpeace

The Israeli Police have set themselves up to become the laughingstock of the world. Look what they’ve done:
It was a pinpoint maneuver, timed for maximum impact just before the nation’s Memorial Day, designed to intimidate unarmed civilian idealists whose alleged crime is to steadfastly challenge the wisdom of the ruling military mindset in this country [...]

YouTube - BBC - Dead in the Water - The Attack on the USS Liberty

During the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel attacked and tried to sink the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. In the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats, 34 American servicemen were killed and 171 wounded.
The Israeli story has always been that they mistook a modern US surveillance ship (flying the US [...]