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"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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t r u t h o u t | Russ Baker: Multiply Your Force!

Have you or your publisher been threatened in any way?

Efforts to suppress dialogue don’t happen that way. In general, when you run the show, you don’t have to do that: you just make sure the information you’d like to suppress doesn’t take off like wild fire. You make it difficult to get the attention of the people who would be interested.

The book is selling respectably well, but the reality is that as I travel, more than 95 percent of the people I meet - including people who are very interested in the topic it covers - have not heard of “Family of Secrets” The struggle is to get attention for it.

There is so much new information coming out all the time, such sensory overload with things that don’t matter at all. I enjoy the World Series or the latest bit of celebrity gossip too, but I see this as very insidious: The drumbeat, the din of the trivial has a profoundly subversive effect on the body politic. With only so much time to devote to being informed, it puts a real burden on us to sift through to what makes a difference in our lives. This is why I really hope people will support WHOWHATWHY so it will become a destination where people can come and effectively use their time to find out about some of these bigger and more profound matters.

In both your book and articles published on the net, you have written about how the “dark arts” of the intelligence world have “jumped the wall,” become a feature of American daily life in the last eight years especially. Would you provide some examples of that phenomenon?

t r u t h o u t | Russ Baker: Multiply Your Force!.

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