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“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

“Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can’t do that, to shut Up.”

~Bill O’Reilly, Fox News

“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

“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

“A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn’t have an air force.”

~William Blum

“The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretense, and start hiring theater directors instead of journalists.”

~Arundhati Roy

“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

“The corporations don’t have to lobby the government any more. They are the government.”

~Jim Hightower

“The men and women who enlist in this country’s military [should] be told the truth that they are not protecting the United States, they are and always have been protecting corporate interests.”

~Chante Wolf

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

~Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945

“[The Right] lie with impunity. Let’s face it. They’re liars. They lied about the reason they took our sons and daughters to war. They spend millions of dollars in campaign ads saying they are for a prescription drug benefit under Medicare while they work to destroy Medicare and replace it with private plans and HMOs. They call their dirty air legislation “Clear Skies” and their plan to give the timber companies our trees, “Healthy Forests.” They call their job-killing economic program a “jobs program.” They say they are for peace when they are for war. Millions of children are left behind under their miserly “No Child Left Behind” education bill. They tout a child tax credit for working families and then silently drop it in favor of more tax cuts for millionaires.”

~Rep. Jan Schakowsky

“Somebody’s paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. They’re getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer to U.S. corporations…”

~Noam Chomsky

“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

“Free and responsible government by popular consent just can’t exist without an informed public.”

~Bill Moyers

“The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.”

~John Dewey

“No form of government, once in power, can be trusted to limit its own ambition, to extend freedom and to wither away. This means that it is up to the citizenry, those outside of power, to engage in permanent combat with the state, short of violent, escalatory revolution, but beyond the gentility of the ballot-box, to insure justice, freedom and well being.”

~Howard Zinn

“Amazing, incredible pick your word. For the third time today, it’s reminiscent of those pictures we’ve all seen too much on television before, where a building was deliberately destroyed by well placed dynamite to knock it down.”

~Dan Rather (CBS News Anchor, comments after Building 7 falls down)

“It starts from below… They have simply blown away columns… This is controlled demolition… A team of experts did this… This is professional work, without any doubt.”

~Controlled Demolition Expert Danny Jowenko’s comments about Building 7 on Dutch TV’s, Zembla Investigates 9/11 Theories (2006).

“We have the power to stop and reverse the tides of time by making our awareness of abuse known to the powers of industry and their uncouth political arms. Only by raising the awareness and promoting personal peace within today’s self-defeatist society, can we allow the planet a chance to avoid self-destruction!
OPEN YOUR EYES, OPEN YOUR MOUTHS,
CLOSE YOUR HANDS AND MAKE A FIST.”

~Daron Malakian

“The combined military expenditures of all the world’s governments in 1987 were so large that all of the social programs of the United Nations could be financed for three hundred years by this expenditure.” (the UN is made up of 192 nations)

~William H. Koetke

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”

~Einstein

“For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political & economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family & me as ‘internationalists’ & of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political & economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, & I am proud of it.”

~David Rockefeller – 2002 – In his book, “Memoirs”

“It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from it’s government.”

~Thomas Paine

“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”

~ Edward R. Murrow

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives”

~James Madison

“When enough is enough that’s when you know that you’re halfway there”

~Rise Against