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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FT.com / US / Politics & Foreign policy - Taboo broken in US Middle East offensive

A US official last week broke a long-standing taboo by referring to Israel’s nuclear weapons in a speech at the United Nations, and Joe Biden, vice-president, delivered a message to the biggest US pro-Israel lobby group that he warned they were “not going to like”.
The Russians and the US have been working together on a [...]

May 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: militarism, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment |

Medvedev: NATO’s exercises in Georgia genuine provocation

Medvedev: NATO’s exercises in Georgia genuine provocation
30.04.2009, 13.46
MOSCOW, April 30 (Itar-Tass) — President Dmitry Medvedev has assumed responsibility for negative consequences of NATO’s exercises in Georgia on those who took a decision to conduct these provocative manoeuvres.
“NATO’s exercises in Georgia are a genuine provocation no matter how we’re been convinced in the contrary,” Medvedev said [...]

April 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: imperialism, militarism, military/industrial complex, totalitarianism/corporatism/fascism | Leave a comment |