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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Is Obama Taking on the Israel Lobby? by Justin Raimondo — Antiwar.com

Is Obama Taking on the Israel Lobby?
Posted By Justin Raimondo On May 7, 2009 @ 9:00 pm In Uncategorized | 1 Comment
The elaborate pretenses that surround any discussion of Israel are fast making it impossible to say a word about that country without uttering a number of increasingly obvious lies.
We are, for example, [...]

May 8th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized, arms control, atomic energy, militarism, military/industrial complex, non-proliferation treaty, nuclear weapons, social justice | Leave a comment |

Bibi’s Holocaust – or Ours? by Gordon Prather — Antiwar.com

And what nuclearization might that be?
Well, Iran’s pursuit – as is its “inalienable right” as a signatory of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – of programs designed to provide Iranians all the benefits of the peaceful uses of atomic energy.
And how do the rest of us non-paranoids know Iran’s pursuit thus far has [...]

May 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized, atomic energy, colonialism, corruption, deep politics, media disinformation, militarism, military/industrial complex, persecution, pre-emptive war, vampire elite, war crimes | Leave a comment |

Who will pay for America’s Chernobyl roulette?

Who will pay for America’s Chernobyl roulette?
By Harvey Wasserman
Online Journal Guest Writer
Apr 30, 2009, 00:14
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As the US attempts to dig out from economic collapse, a little-known nuclear industry liability could seriously derail Obama’s attempt to revive our finances.
It is the federal disaster insurance on 104 rickety atomic reactors. Because the industry [...]

April 29th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: atomic energy, energy, environment, totalitarianism/corporatism/fascism | Leave a comment |