1/28/2019 0 Comments Quote 31We have many men who hold high offices of trust who are nothing more or less than pro-Germans or spies in the pay of Germany. -from the book First Call by Arthur Guy Empey (1918)
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1/26/2019 0 Comments Quote 30Acts or utterances of any kind tending to hinder or impair the efficient prosecution of the war are made unlawful by the sedition bill prepared for Governor Neville and the state council of defense, which was introduced in the lower branch of the legislature Tuesday afternoon as house ro'l [sic] No. 5. - from the article Sedition Bill Carries a Punch printed in, The Lincoln Star (March 27, 1918)
12/26/2018 0 Comments Quote #29That doesn't mean that we journalists have to risk our lives to tell the truth, but we do have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country. That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions, not at a far away enemy, but at you at home. It's very simple, in this age of endless imperial war the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us. "Never believe anything until it's officially denied." said the great reporter, Claud Cockburn. In other words, those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power. - John Pilger, journalist; documentary filmmaker; war correspondent; from his film "The War You Don't See" (2010)
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- from You Can't Print That! The Truth behind the News, 1918-1928 by George Seldes
8/27/2018 0 Comments Quote #27An example was PROLEFEED, meaning the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses. - from 1984, by George Orwell
6/18/2018 0 Comments Quote #26that in some countries the laboring poor were called freemen, in others they were called slaves; but that the difference as to the state was imaginary only. What matters it whether a landlord, employing ten laborers on his farm, gives them annually as much money as will buy them the necessaries of life, or gives them those necessaries at short hand? - John Adams, as recounted by Thomas Jefferson in his autobiography
6/8/2018 0 Comments Quote #25I learned afterwards, that the substitute of hard labor in public, was tried (I believe it was in Pennsylvania) without success. Exhibited as a public spectacle, with shaved heads and mean clothing, working on the high roads, produced in the criminals such a prostration of character, such an abandonment of self-respect, as, instead of reforming, plunged them into the most desperate and hardened depravity of morals and character. - from the autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
6/8/2018 0 Comments Quote #24I went through the Pentegon 10 days after 9/11. . . . and an officer from the Joint Staff called me into his office and said, "I want you to know" he said, "sir, we're going to attack Iraq." and I said, "Why?" He said, "We don't know." I said, "Well, did they tie Saddam to 9/11?" He said, "No." He said, "But, I guess they don't know what to do about terrorism, but they can attack states and they want to look strong, and so, I guess they think if they take down a state it will intimidate the terrorists and, you know it's like that old saying" he said, "if the only tool you have is a hammer than every problem has to be a nail." - General Wesley Clark (retired), at the Commonwealth Club of California (October 3, 2007)
5/9/2018 0 Comments Quote #23Moreover, the use of the Internet to spread computer viruses reveals how easy it can be to disrupt the - from, Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century, a report of The Project for the New American Century, written by Donald Kagan, Gary Schmitt, and Thomas Donnelly (September 2000)
5/4/2018 0 Comments Quote #22When any country whose workers are strongly organized starts veering towards fascism, it must either win over the trade-unions in one way or another or destroy them, for rebellious labor can prevent fascism by means of the general strike. British labor is known to hate fascism since it has learned that fascism destroys, among other things, the value of the trade-unions and all that they have gained after many years of struggle. Any veering by England toward fascism and fascist alliances spells trouble with the trade-unions; hence, the decision "to coordinate the political education of the people." This move is particularly necessary since some trade-union leaders, especially in the important armament industry, have already stated publicly that unless the workers were given assurances that the arms labor was manufacturing would be used in defense of democracy and not to destroy it, they would not cooperate. -from Secret Armies: The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by John L. Spivak (1939)
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