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War and Peace


The President's Real Goal In Iraq
"War, to the increasing exclusion of everything else, is the only thing that America collectively cares about anymore. We don't manufacture much of anything; just war. We don't concern ourselves with education; just war. We don't attend to the 40 million Americans without health coverage; just war. We don't focus on the 30 million American children living in poverty; just war. We don't support the arts; just war. Even though a multitude of human needs were in existence prior to September 11, and have only increased since then, we continue to direct our attention and our resources into what we do best: war. Just war."
David Potorti, brother of WTC victim
United States War Machine
"America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome's policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number."
Arnold Toynbee, historian, 1961
Making a Killing - The Business of War
"... the establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation..."
Edward S. Herman, political economist and author
Re-ordering America's Priorities
"War is the biggest business in America."
Jim Garrison, New Orleans District Attorney, prosecutor in the 1967 JFK assassination conspiracy trial
International War Crimes
" Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists."
Alex de Tocqueville
War on Terrorism
"Governments lie."
I.F. Stone
U.S.Foreign Policy and Pentagon
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
Abraham Lincoln, 1861
American Empire
"The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport."
Barbara Jordan, former U.S. Congresswoman
Pentagon watch
"Although the privileged of this world can accept the existence of poverty on a massive scale and not be overawed by it, problems begin when the causes of this poverty are pointed out to them. Once causes are determined, then there is talk of 'social injustice,' and the privileged begin to resist. This is especially true when to structural analysis there is added a concrete historical perspective in which personal responsibilities come to light. But it is the consientization and resultant organization of poor sectors that rouse the greatest fears and the strongest resistance."
Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation
Foreign policy watch
"To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization."
Jeremy Seabrook, Third World Network
Weapons page
" The U.S. President has been largely refashioned as a high-level trade representative for the transnationals."
The Nation magazine
War on Drugs
"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, 1969
United States & Third World
" 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, political scientist and author