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"No people can be both ignorant and free."

Thomas Jefferson

 

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"The news and the truth are not the same thing. "

Walter Lippmann

 

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"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but [an American] political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either."

Edward Zehr

 

NEW WORLD ORDER

 

"It is [Henry] Kissinger's belief ... that by controlling food, one can control people, and by controlling energy, especially oil, one can control nations and their financial systems. By placing food and oil under international control along with the worlds monetary system, Kissinger is convinced a loosely knit world government operating under the framework of the United Nations can become a reality..."

syndicated Washington columnist Paul Scott, 1970s

 

SEARCH PAGE

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary."

George Orwell

 

QUOTATIONS TO MAKE US THINK

a searchable database of thousands of quotations

 

QUOTATIONS PAGE

 

"We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness - embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television."

Howard Zinn

MEDIA - MAIN PAGE

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"The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."

Noam Chomsky

Media pageMedia watchMedia Reform

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Magazines pageProgressive Media Links

Think Tank watchFreedom of Information Act - Help Center

"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology."

Michael Parenti

AUTHORS' PAGE

"There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy... What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope."

Walter Karp

CORPORATE MEDIA & THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

 


"Real information, subversive information, remains the most potent power of all ... we must not fall into the trap of believing that the media speaks for the public. That wasn't true in Stalinist Czechoslovakia and it isn't true of the United States."

Harold Pinter

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY - MAIN PAGE

 

U.S. Sanctions on Iraq 1991-1998 - excess mortality rates and excess deaths of children under five (link)
See No Evil - Abu Ghraib - Iraq (photos)
Suffer the Children - Iraq (photos)
Suffer the Children II - Iraq (photos)

"We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population.... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming, and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction.... We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."

George Kennan, secret U.S. State Department memo, 1948

 

September 11, 2001, NYCConspiracy Theories or 'Real' World Order?

One World Governmnt pageGlobal Secrets & LiesFriendly dictators page

Pentagon watchDictators pageForeign policy watch

Middle East watchIsrael watchIraq pageAfghanistan page

Africa watchCentral Africa page Congo watchEast Africa page

North Africa pageSouthern Africa pageWest Africa page

"In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena."

Robert McChesney

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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get the people to stop reading them."

Ray Bradbury

 

School of the Americas watchTorture watchAmerican Empire page

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War on Drugs pageCoup d'etat pageSubverting Democracy page War and Peace page

"Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on."

Michael Parenti

Demanding Democracy pageWeapons pageForeign Policy Institutions pageAssassinations page

International War Crimes pageTerrorism watchWar on Terrorism page

War Profiteering pageMilitary-Industrial Complex pageReducing U.S. Military Budget page

 

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."

John Maynard Keynes

 

Just Foreign Policy (link)
Toward an Ethical Foreign Policy

"In dictatorships we are more fortunate than you in the West in one respect. We believe nothing of what we read in the newspapers and nothing of what we watch on television, because we know it's propaganda and lies. Unlike you in the West, we've learned to look behind the propaganda and to read between the lines, and unlike you, we know that the real truth is always subversive."

dissident Czech novelist Zdener Urbanek

MILITARIZATION OF AMERICA

 

"An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, is likely to get us to world order faster than the old-fashioned frontal assault... Even as nations resist appeals for "world government" and "the surrender of sovereignty," technological, economic and political interests are forcing them to establish more and more far-ranging institutions to manage their mutual interdependence."

Richard Gardner, Council on Foreign Relations

 

FRIENDLY DICTATORS

Augusto Pinochet - Chile, "Papa Doc" Duvalier - Haiti, Efrain Rios Montt - Guatemala, Park Chung-hee - South Korea, King Fahd - Saudi Arabia

P W Botha - South Africa, Sani Abacha - Nigeria, Rafael Trujillos - Dominican Republic, General Suharto - Indonesia, Fulgencio Batista - Cuba

Shah Pahlevi - Iran, Mobuto Sese Seko - Zaire, Ferdinand Marcos - Philippines, Anastasio Somoza - Nicaragua

King Hassan II - Morocco, Pol Pot - Cambodia, Hosni Mubarak - Egypt, Saddam Hussein - Iraq

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The Crimes of Augusto Pinochet pageSchool of the Americas page

 

"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of external menace"

John Foster Dulles secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration

 

Conspiracy Theories or 'Real' World Order?

What if everything we were told about 9-11 was a lie ?

 

"Why of course the people don't want war... That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

Hermann Goering

INTERNET NEWS & INFORMATION

"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe."

George Orwell


DemocracyNow.org

The Real News Network

StopBigMedia.com
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SaveTheInternet.com

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."

H. L. Mencken

INDEPENDENT MEDIA

"[I] never saw a foreign intervention that the [New York] Times did not support, never saw a fare increase or a rent increase or a utility rate increase that it did not endorse, never saw it take the side of labor in a strike or lockout, or advocate a raise for underpaid workers. And don't let me get started on universal health care and Social Security. So why do people think the Times is liberal?"

veteran New York Times reporter John Hess

COVERT ACTIVITIES - MAIN PAGE

CIA watchFBI watchNational Security Agency (NSA) watchGlobal Secrets & Lies page

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"Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers 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."

William Blum

PROGRESSIVE WEBSITES

"The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."

Alex Carey

TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS - MAIN PAGE

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"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people..."

Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice

Transnational corporations & Third World pageNew Global Economy pageCorporate watch

Controlling Corporations pageGlobalization watchCorporate Welfare page

"Television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation... Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing."

Neil Postman

QUOTATIONS PAGE

"What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city."

Walter Karp

DEMOCRACY & SOCIETY - MAIN PAGE

Democracy in America pageFascism watchDissent pagePatriotism page

Labor pageClass War watchRuling Elites pageDemocracy watchSociety watch

Civil Liberties watchMilitarization of America pageDemanding Democracy pageSocialism watch

"From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair."

William Blum

Education watchEconomics watchHistory watchEnvironment watchWater pageFood watch

Nationalism pageHealth watchReligion pageReforming the Electoral Process page

Real Democracy pageThink Tank watchNational Security pageAssassinations page

"Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others."

Emma Goldman

OpenSecrests.org - Where do the candidates get their money?

Politics watchPolitical Repression pageProgressive Politics watchPoliticians' page

Political Crimes and Criminals pagePolitical Corruption pagePolitical Reform page

American Fundamentalism pageRe-ordering America's Priorities

Energy watchYouth & Children watchWomen watch

Socialism watchPolice State watchMilitary-Industrial Complex page "Thirdworldization" of America

 

"The price good people pay for their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

Plato



FASCISM - AMERICAN-STYLE

"If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag."

Huey Long

 

The 14 characteristics of Fascism

 

" With unfailing consistancy, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests."

Michael Parenti

THIRD WORLD - DEFINITION & DESCRIPTION

 

"Those who know the least obey the best."

George Farquhar

HUMAN RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY DOCUMENTS

"Americans are too broadly underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world ... Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations... Politicians and the media have conspired to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At heart, politicians don't believe that Americans can handle complex truths, and the news media, especially television news, basically agrees."

Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent

BURMA WATCH

"Who needs censorship when we have self-censorship. When news is being withheld, or neutralized, at best, how can we expect anything but cynicism from those who read our daily papers? Maybe the reason many aren't buying newspapers isn't that they can get information for free on the Internet, but because they don't believe what they read, and how can they?"

Jane Lyn Stahl

HAITI PAGE

"When the full and true story of Jean-Bertrand Aristide is finally told, it will portray a noble and humble man who gave of himself honorably to serve the interests of all the people of Haiti. His only failure was his inability to overcome the brutal and corrupt power of the U.S. and its determination to see him fail. "

Stephen Lendman

 

CONGO WATCH

"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen."

G. K. Chesterton

HUMAN RIGHTS - MAIN PAGE

"For ethics to matter to us, the happiness and suffering of others must matter to us."

Sam Harris

Human Rights Documents pagePrison watch

Life & death in Third World pageHeroes pageZeroes pageHuman rights watch

Genocide watchJustice watchReforming the System page

United Nations pageThird World in United States pageWorld Federalism page

"The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged not to think independently or critically and instead to accept the mythology of the United States as a benevolent, misunderstood giant as it lumbers around the world trying to do good."

Robert Jensen

THIRDWORLDIZATION OF AMERICA

"The problem is not that a computer network [Internet] offers an alternative to the information aristocracy. The true crisis is that neither the news media nor the government has enough credibility to be accepted as either truthful or impartial on their own."

military writer William M. Arkin

WHAT YOU CAN DO - MAIN PAGE

"The goal of conservative rulers around the world, led by those who occupy the seats of power in Washington, is the systematic rollback of democratic gains, public services, and common living standards around the world."

Michael Parenti

 

What Can I Do?

Coalition to Ban Cluster Bombs
International Campaign to Ban Landmines

Antislavery - today's fight for tomorrow's freedom
AFESIP - combating trafficking of women and children for sex slavery
U.S. Campaign for Burma

STOP TORTURE Now
Global Response - environmental and education network
Kiva - loans that change lives
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation

Rugmark Foundation - end illegal child labor in the carpet industry in South Asia
Partners in Health - health care in Haiti
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (Haiti Action Network)

Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
Smile Train - cleft repair for third world children

International Rescue Committee
Oxfam America
Doctors Without Borders


"The system is not going to reform itself from the inside. Stop trying to get corporations to be socially responsible. Stop trying to achieve any particular social objective like global warming or a national healthcare system ... Put all of our efforts into a citizen's movement for democracy. That would include the public financing of campaigns and would require any network, any broadcaster using the public airwaves to provide advertising for all candidates."

Robert Reich

Boycott pageProgressive websitesSolidarity pageNumbers to know

Become informed -- authors pageBecome informed -- books page

Become informed -- magazines & media organizations

 

"WHY DO THEY HATE US ?"

[Ariel Sharon - Israel, King Fahd - Saudi Arabia, Shah Pahlevi - Iran, Saddam Hussain - Iraq]

"You don't need a totalitarian dictatorship like Hitler's to get by with murder ... you can do it in a democracy as long as the Congress and the people Congress is supposed to represent don't give a damn?"

William Shirer

ARTICLES

Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?
War Immemorial Day - No Peace for Militarized U.S.
An Expanding Military Budget Taxpayers Can't Afford
Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11
The Last Roundup - Martial Law and Overriding the Constitution in the Event of a Terrorist Attack

" Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own."

William Greider

The "Third World" - excerpted from the book Contrary Notions by Michael Parenti
Pain and Conscience

The Mega-Pentagon: A Bush-Enabled Monster We Can't Stop
The Destruction of Yugoslavia - excerpted from the book Contrary Notions by Michael Parenti
Fascism: the Real Story - excerpted from the book Contrary Notions by Michael Parenti
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence - Martin Luther King, Jr. speech, April 4, 1967, New York City

" If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue? "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Habeas Corpus - the most extraordinary writ
Creeping Fascism: Lessons From the Past
Who Rules America?
America the ignorant

"Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike."

William O. Douglas, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Nasty Double Standards on Man-made Catastrophes and Crimes against Humanity
Challenging Authority - Frances Fox Piven
Beware the [Political] Psychopath, My Son (5/08)
Senate Moves Forward on Orwellian "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act"

"While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government."

Robert Kennedy. Jr.

The Unseen Lies: Journalism As Propaganda
Oil Costs More Than You Think
"Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007"

"We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had -- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it, all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism."

Howard Zinn

The U.S. Aggression Process and Its Collaborators: From Guatemala (1950-1954) to Iran (2002-present)
Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

The Most Dangerous Alliance in the World [Israel and U.S.]

"The Middle East is center of the world's energy resources... That's been an axiom of U.S. foreign policy, that it must control Middle East energy resources. It is not a matter of access ... the issue has always been control. Control is the source of strategic power."

Noam Chomsky

Where Do Our Income Tax Dollars Go? [FY2006]
U.S. Money Aids World's Worst Dictators

The Israel Lobby
There's Always Money For War

"fascism - A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."

The American Heritage Dictionary, 1983

U. S. Imperialism: A Century of Slaughter
Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State

Some of Our Best Friends Are Authoritarians
Who's The Biggest Rogue of All ? - international laws and agreements ignored, compromised or violated by the US

"The United States has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporations, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican."

Gore Vidal

BOOKS

Book excerpts - sorted alphabetically
Book excerpts - sorted by subject


The Shock Doctrine - the Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
The Bilderberg Group - Daniel Estulin
The Secret History of the American Empire - John Perkins
Crossing the Rubicon - The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - Michael Ruppert

"Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them."

Mark Hertzgaard

Empire's Workshop - Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism - Greg Grandin
Overthrow - America's Century of Regime Change from Haiti to Iraq - Stephen Kinzer
Who Rules America Now? - G. William Domhoff
The Power Elite - C. Wright Mills

"The U.S. record of war crimes has been, from the nineteenth century to the present, a largely invisible one, with no government, no political leaders, no military officials, no lower-level operatives held accountable for criminal actions... Anyone challenging this mythology is quickly marginalized, branded a traitor or Communist or terrorist or simply a lunatic beyond the pale of reasonable discussion."

Carl Boggs

Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo (1939)
1984 - George Orwell (1949)

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II - William Blum
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire - Chalmers Johnson

"We live in a nation hated abroad and frightened at home. A place in which we can reasonably refer to the American Republic in the past tense. A country that has moved into a post-constitutional era, no longer a nation of laws but an autocracy run by law breakers, law evaders and law ignorers. A nation governed by a culture of impunity ... a culture in which corruption is no longer a form of deviance but the norm. We all live in a Mafia neighborhood now."

Sam Smith

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
State Terrorism and the United States - Frederick H. Gareau
Burning All Illusions - a guide to personal and political freedom - David Edwards

 

WHO RULES THE WORLD?

Books

The Bilderberg Group - Daniel Estulin
The Rockefeller File - Gary Allen
Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management - edited by Holly Sklar

The Power Elite - E. Wright Mills
The Powers That Be - G. William Domhoff
Who Rules America Now? - G. William Domhoff

Articles

Meet the Men Who Rule the WorId
San Francisco Bohemian Club: Power, Prestige and GIobalism
Bilderberg Club
Inside the Secretive Bilderberg Group

The Party of Davos
Richest 2% hold half the world's assets
Who Rules America?
The Rise of the Imperial Class - [John] McCain is their avatar, and war is their mother's milk
Elite 'Democratic' Planning at the Council on Foreign Relations

 

"For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is in the American character... that almost automatically, even when we have a liberal President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant towards them."

William Shirer

 

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"Expecting FOX News to report real news is about as silly as waiting for George Bush and Dick Cheney to tell the truth... Americans care, but it's tough to care when you don't know what's going on. That ignorance is what the warmakers count on and what the corporate media delivers."

Amy Goodman

 

Videos / Documentaries / Photos

Save the Internet (video)
What We Call The News (video)
Bill Moyers: Buying the War - the mainstream media's role in selling the Iraq War (video)

The Real Reason the U.S. and/or Israel Will Attaack Iran
In January 2001, George W. Bush Sought to "Find A Way" to Invade Iraq -
CBS 60 Minutes (2004) interview of Former Secretary Of Treasury Paul O'Neil and reporter Ron Suskind

Oil, Smoke & Mirrors (video)
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror (video)
Bill Moyers: Buying the War - the mainstream media's role in selling the Iraq War (video)
What We Call The News (video)
America: Freedom to Fascism (video)
Frontline: News Wars (videos)
Bill Moyers talk "On the Plantation" - Media Reform Conference, Memphis, TN, January 12,2007 (video)
Bernie Sanders on Media Reform - Media Reform Conference, Memphis, TN, January 22, 2007 (video)
Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Iraqi Children [1990 - 2003] (video)
America's complicity with Saddam Hussein's massacre of 300,000 Shiites in 1991 (video)
Uncovered: the Whole Truth About the Iraq War (video)
Iraq: The Reckoning (video)
U.S Complicity with Saddam's Crimes (video)
Western Complicity in Halabja Massacre (video)
Napalm in Vietnam / Massacre and white phosphorus in Fallujah (video)
Impact of depleted uranium in Iraq and Yugoslavia (video)
Master's of War (video)
John Stockwell - the U.S. War Against the Third World (video)
Eisenhower's Farewell Speech: Military Industrial Complex (video)
Militarism and the American Empire - Chalmers Johnson (video)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - the Attempted Coup Against Hugo Chavez (video)
Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins/Amy Gooodman (video)
The U.S. is a Terrorist State - Noam Chomsky (2 videos)
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (video)
The New Rulers of the World - John Pilger (video)
Year Zero - the Silent Death of Cambodia - John Pilger (video)
The Great Conspiracy - the truth about 9-11 (video)

"This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."

Benjamin Franklin

MORE VIDEOS / PHOTOS

TRAVEL WEATHER

"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them."

Michael Parenti

TRAVEL HEALTH

"To criticize one's country is to do it a service .... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism - a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation."

U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright

TRAVEL LINKS

"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about."

Noam Chomsky

TRAVEL INFORMATION

"Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."

Mark Crispin Miller

THIRD WORLD TRAVEL

"Free and responsible government by popular consent just can't exist without an informed public."

Bill Moyers

 

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