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John Lennon & Yoko Ono: 'War Is Over! (If You Want It)'

Poverty is the worst form of violence. - Gandhi

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War itself is the enemy of the human race. —Howard Zinn

Renounce War Projects

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. - Mohandas Gandhi

There's No Place Like Home

Dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system, we seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America, to function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests. National Lawyers Guild S.F. Bay Area Chapter

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." - Bertrand Russell

John and Yoko give peace a chance (7 pictures)

Don't Deploy

"One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness." - Che Guevarra

Universal Healthcare

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.- Oscar Wilde

Universal Healthcare 

’The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.’ Mahatma Gandhi 

"This Land is Your Land"

Some hours of work

"Let's just speak of using the incredible wealth of the earth for human beings, Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure."- Howard Zinn from 'Marx in Soho'

AY CARMELA VIVA REPUBLICA

“Compassion was the chief and, perhaps the only law of all human existence.” From The Idiot, p 263 trans. David Magardhack, Penguin Classics 1955

Marx in Soho Brian Jones

The Shakespeare Sonnets, from 1 to 154 - the full links

It's a Public Benefit

Biographies of William Morris (1834-96)

Davy The Fat Boy

"You must never suggest that ordinary people collaborated. You must never suggest that the people who committed crimes were not monsters but human beings under certain pressures who do not belong to a separate category but are completely normal people." - Louis Malle

Renounce War .info

There really is no safe level of radiation

Satyagraha

"The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad. It will come and it will devour you, it will remove you from the present. It will steal your future and this happens every day." - Bruce Springteen

(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man." Thomas Paine

An injury to one is an injury to all

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts,
and that is where all our battles should be fought.
~Mahatma Gandhi

"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" –from "Ozymandias" (Ramesses the Great)

"But I have absolutely no choice. I cannot come, I do not want to come, and I am not coming." - Mike Leigh

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. - Oscar Wilde

Yankee Go Home

“I hope I don’t go to hell. Imagine the table talk of all those popes.” - Luis Buñuel

"Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no justification for freedom." T. E. Lawrence wrote about Iraqis on 22 August 1920.

"The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease." — Helen Keller, IWW member, 1911

 

“Hic Rhodus, hic salta!”

After the first death, there is no other.

 

Renounce War

"If a majority of workers want a union, they should get a union; it's that simple" ~ Barack Obama, April 2008

 

Give Peace A Chance

"I'm neither Trotskyist nor Guevarist or Luxemburgist, I'm a revolutionary. And revolution needs to be reinvented, for no revolutionary experiment has ever succeeded. Some of them ended up as bloody caricatures".- Olivier Besancenot

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros Police and Thieves.

Universal Healthcare

"I would rather be vaguely right, than precisely wrong." - John Maynard Keynes

Polonius advice to his son Laertes:

"Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel."

Polonius' advice:

"This above all—
To thine own self be true;
And it must follow
As the night the day,
Thou canst not then
Be false to any man."

 

Seeräuber Jenny

War Is Over 2010

~ The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money. Rabindranath Tagore

Universal Healthcare

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed ~ Gandhi

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.” - John Maynard Keynes

"The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them." - Albert Einstein

Universal Healthcare 2010

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions, it is the opium of the people.” - Marx

 

John Lennon Give Peace a Chance Live in Toronto 1969

Give Peace A Chance

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor" - Voltaire

The Great Transformation By Karl Polanyi

---MAHALIA JACKSON Live late 1960's--- We shall overcome

MALCOLM X: THE HOUSE NEGRO AND THE FIELD NEGRO

 

Muir Beach in Marin California

Cuba's zunzún or bumblebee hummingbird

Universal Healthcare

“I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.” — Jean Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands: act 5, scene 3. 1963

What is Property? By P. J. Proudhon

THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE - JM Keynes (1920)

"It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go." - Bertrand Russell

1000 artworks to see before you die

Don't Deploy

Washington, DC, is a Potemkin village of alabaster and marble

Caused by the future adminstration

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead.

Highland clan chief Diarmid MacAulay walks us through his favourite landscapes in Scotland

“He who serves all, best serves himself.” Jack London

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Give Peace A  Chance

Was the Civil War worth it? Might slavery have died out anyway, as it did in Brazil?

‘If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?” Tuco from “Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)

"In October 1884, a convention held by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions unanimously set May 1, 1886, as the date by which the eight-hour work day would become standard. When May 1, 1886 approached, American labor unions prepared for a general strike in support of the eight-hour day. The Haymarket affair is generally considered to have been an important influence on the origin of international May Day observances for workers"

Revolution Number 9 Backwards

"In Cuba I have time, time to do what I want to do. In other countries, no one has time."

Soldiers, Don't Deploy

SourceWatch

The delusion of a classless America

“believe nothing until it has been officially denied.”- Claude Cockburn

Strawberry Fields Forever

Victor Jara - Comandante Che Guevara

Marjorie Cohn is president of the National Lawyers Guild

It's got electrolytes

The dull compulsion of economic relations completes the subjection of the laborer to the capitalist. - Marx

"When you start a war for the wrong reasons, you are responsible for all that follows, even the other side's atrocities." - Michael Neumann

Empire's Military Bases Map

A Campaign to Cut Poverty in the United States in Half in Ten Years

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop

Howl: People vs Ferlinghetti - Final mp3 Beat Generation, etc

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."- Edmund Burke

Glimpses of Nature

Yippie!

"New York City Hippie"

“Labor cannot, on any terms, surrender the right to strike.” —Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice

Steve Earle - City Of Immigrants (Official)

Works in Progress

“The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class” Jack London

"Information is like air. It must be free for all. Forever."

Social Justice Leadership

"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all." -- Maximilien Robespierre

Remembering the US Soldier Who Committed Suicide After She Refused to Take Part in Torture.

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - June Jordan

If we are always guided by other people’s thoughts, what’s the good of having our own? -- Oscar Wilde from “A Good Woman” 

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” - Helen Keller

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America is gangsterism for the private profit of the few.-Vanessa Redgrave

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Website will allow you to calculate your own personal rate of inflation

"There was never a good war or a bad peace." Benjamin Franklin

It was James Baldwin who said, “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”

"The real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones." John Maynard Keynes

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. - John Lennon

NO DRAFT, NO WAY!

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov

"War is cruelty and you cannot refine it." - Gen. William T. Sherman 1820-1891

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant

"History is one big smoking gun and the function of the official press is to say this isn't so." - Alex Cockburn

Dovetail Joints

Collective puts Marx's Das Kapital on stage

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What is capital punishment if not the most premeditated of murders to which no criminal act, no matter how calculated, can be compared."-- Albert Camus

 

"We need to acknowledge, if we are thoughtful people, that terror is everywhere, and has been with us always, and involves all kind of people who later get called men of peace.'"- P. Sabin Willett

The Mindsweep - A Fellatio Rodriguez Film

 

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw

No One Is Safe: The Ruling Class Unleashed

Do do do do do do- oh yeah!

"If you take a step towards freedom - It'll take two steps towards you" - Tom Morello

"No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up."- Lily Tomlin

“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation worship is the goal of human history.”- Rabindranath Tagore

"The crimes of the US throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them" - Harold Pinter

"A clever man solves a problem; a wise man avoids it." Einstein

 

 

No Human Being Is Illegal

"It is so simple a remedy, merely service. Not one ignoble thought or act is demanded of any of all men and women in the world to make fair the world. The call is for nobility of thinking, nobility of doing. The call is for service, and such is the wholesomeness of it. He who serves all best serves himself." - Jack London

 

"Possession is nine tenths of the problem." - Dr. Winston O'Boogie

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Public Housing and the American Dream

Click on headlines to go to links; click on pictures to go to links

One System for All: Universal Access to Health Care

American Empire and the Future

If there’s any nation in the world that is well on the way to meriting the admittedly vague label of “fascist,” surely it’s the United States.

Inside Halden, the most humane prison in the world

How Government and Corporations Use the Poor as Piggy Banks Preying on the Poor

Sunday's partial solar eclipse will bring a burning ring of fire to the sky

A Line-by-line Analysis of National Defense Authorization Act, Nuclear Provisions

Paul Krugman’s Economic Blinders

"I Guess You're on Your Own" Grounded By US Airways

Relax! They’ve Got It Covered Why Jamie Dimon’s $2 Billion Gambling Loss Will NOT Speed Financial Reform

The Moral Arc of the Universe

Euro Bond Holders, Beware! The Insanity of Austerity

“Seldom has a Body of Political and Business Leaders been so Badly Mistaken in So Many Ways.”

When Empires Forget the Lessons of History

UN Probe: U.S. Should Return Stolen Sacred Land, Including Mt. Rushmore, to Native Americans

The FARC Calls for a Debate The Retention of Romeo Langlois

"Chicago is my hometown and the mayor is making me feel mighty unwelcome...

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Drones in US Flight Paths

A cycle of overhyped terror plots involving government agency entrapment feeds a multimillion-dollar surveillance industry

“Articles about Argentina are almost always very negative in tone — they’re irresponsible, they’re renationalizing some industries, they talk populist, so they must be going very badly.”

Economic democracy: the next big left idea?

War Crimes Indictment Served at Hancock Air Force Base

Chen Guangcheng, WTF?

Quantum computers are ever closer to becoming a reality, and when they arrive they will revolutionise computing power

The Lutfallah II Arms-Smuggling Scandal

Is the US Poised to Regain Control of Latin America with Regional Proxy Wars Through Colombia?

Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life

Craters in the Roads Why Osama Lives

American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?

Will Sadat’s Camp David and the Zionist Embassy be Next?

Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying–U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails

French Elections: Cracks in the Neoliberal Consensus

Making the US a White Gated Community

Human Rights or Security? Mexico’s False Dilemma

Billionaire superyachts cast a shadow over Barcelona's traditional barrios

The Philanthropies of American Imperialism Foundations and American Power

An Envoi for Christopher Hitchens At the Pearly Gates

German 'hypocrisy' over Greek military spending has critics up in arms

Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes

For He’s a Jolly Good Scoundrel: On Sanford Weill

Tariq Ali with Avi Lewis, 26 October 2011, Talk – Video

Locking Down an American Workforce The Prison Labor Complex

The NDAA means the US military can put anyone under suspicion of being a terror threat and detain them for ever

Get rid of 'digital handcuffs', says European Commission vice-president

An Interview with Tariq Ali In the Shadow of the Extreme Center

The Hollow Republic Health Care in an Age of American Decline

40 Years in Solitary Confinement: Two Members of Angola 3 Remain in Isolation in Louisiana Prison

First, Your Double Standard The Crackdown in Bahrain

The Logic of Unintended Consequences: The ‘Mess in Mali’

150 years of research proves that long hours at work kill profits, productivity and employees

The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning

Ozzie Guillen and Free Speech

If the Other Shoe Drops, I Want Medicare Medicare for All, For Life

Always Making Fresh Enemies

The Disgusting Attacks on Gunter Grass

Guayaberas Without Cubans

The Demon from Bradford

Kenya: Tricks, Intrigues and Somali War Grab Everything And Justify It By War

Fighting the Legacy of Enrico Fermi

Remember Captain Boycott!

Wikipedia world: an interactive guide to every language. Infographic map

Unlikely allies

Concentrated levels found as scientists sample the Pacific for signs of Fukushima

How Forced Relocation Becomes "Voluntary" Uprooting 30,000 Bedouin in Israel

The Real Nuclear Outlaws

Walker Recall Overshadows GOP's Weird Wisconsin Primary

By the Numbers: 'Medicare for All' Could Fund Prosperous Future

Guilt and Identity Politics The Toulouse Murders

Egypt: A Culture of Subjugation is Dying

A short history of privatisation in the UK: 1979-2012

General Franco gives an award to a family in Madrid. Babies were taken away from families during his regime and trafficking continued into the 80s

The current radiation levels are so high that even robots cannot enter

The Transportation and Security Administration has installed about 640 full-body millimeter wave and X-ray backscatter scanners at 165 airports as of January

FBI’s Activities Raise Constitutional Concerns and Violate Federal Privacy Law, ACLU Says

Police as Commodity Security for the One-Percent

Totalitarian systems always begin by rewriting the law. They make legal what was once illegal.

Putting Out the Wrong Fire White House Burning

An Agrarian Progressive The Life and Passion of Henry A. Wallace

Strike Down the Obama Mandate! Single-Payer Docs to Rally at Supreme

Syria Was Not Libya After All Bid to Overthrow Assad Fails

Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown

400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, Electromagnetic Pulses and Nuclear Armageddon

Anniversary of forgotten American tragedy

Why We Are Not Supporting Jeffrey Sachs to be World Bank President

Honduras and the Obama Administration

When the Rich Jump Ship

Massacres Will Always Follow Occupy A Country

Goldman Sachs’ Trader Finds a New Occupy Tactic

The history of life, the universe and everything - visualised

The Death of Investigative Journalism

Of Unions, Nuns and Health Care

Ireland’s Debt and the Heart of O’Toole

ChronoZoom Beta goes live

Something in American Culture Builds Walls Around Those Who are Different The Wall

Stratfor: And it gets worse

Exposing the "No Harm" Mantra The Dangerous Myths of Fukushima

What Could Have Happened in Spain

Don't Restart It, Dismantle it It’s Time to Get Realistic About the Dangers of the San Onofre Nuclear Plant

Try a Little Tenderness... Lessons From Bolivia

Anti-Nuclear Groups in Georgia Seek to Block First New Nuclear Plants in U.S. in Decades

Will 2012 Bring Tribal War to Libya?

Robert Fisk: France's shamefully forgotten allies

2012 Threatens to be Very Violent Year The Sunni-Shia Wars

Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, "Serial Fabricators" and the Tale of Iran and 9/11

"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." I. F. Stone

"If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?" -Eduardo Galeano

The “Left” and Libya

“Our rights will not voluntarily be handed to us, so we are heading out to demand them." Frederick Douglass,

Best Strategies for Managing the Commons

WHITE POPPIES ARE FOR PEACE

The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian

Three Strikes Against the Empire The U.S. Southern Command & the 4th Fleet

Affirmative Action Meets 21st Century White Supremacy at Berkeley

"The impact of war is self-evident, since economically it is exactly the same as if the nation were to drop a part of its capital into the ocean." --Karl Marx, Grundrisse, 1857-58

"Of course we will, boy! The British Army has always fought the wily Pathan. Stripped mother-naked, under the tent brailings like a snake, he is." - Colonel Grapple - later to be known as Grapple of the Bedoo

“A real man should feel on his own cheek the blow given to another man’s cheek.” José Martí

Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion and the legacy of violence

Shared Work, Shared Leisure Shorter Weeks, Longer Vacations

A Short History of Black-Owned Land in America

The Bay View Massacre

Bay View Massacre

Resistance Works.

‘If you’re not careful the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.’ - Malcolm X

THE PROBLEM IS CIVIL OBEDIENCE: HOWARD ZINN 1971/2007

As we do, we serve notice to NATO that we shall not desist until they have left our country and we will ensure that they never return.

I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore

Hewn from rock, the cavernous cisterns which dot the desert beyond Bethlehem have for centuries harvested winter rain to provide shepherds and their flocks with water through summer.

Groucho Marx- Capt Spalding's Adventures in Africa

Chernobyl: A field trip to no man's land

Heard the one about the child and the blood money?

“The first revolutionary act is to call things by their true names.”- Rosa Luxemburg

Before You Enlist

“Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?” - George Bernard Shaw

An Infinite Succession of Presents

“Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.” - Howard Zinn

Soldier, We Love You

"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" –from "Ozymandias"

“Crises are, as it were, the irrational rationaliers of an always unstable capitalism”- David Harvey

The Ruthlessness of the Ruling Class

Dave Duerson killed himself, he asked that his brain be left to researchers studying head injuries among athletes.

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past."- Karl Marx

"What is the end of our revolution? The tranquil enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice, the laws of which are graven, not on marble or stone, but in the hearts of men, even in the heart of the slave who has forgotten them, and in that of the tyrant who disowns them." -- Maximillien Robespierre

One must remember that in choosing the lesser of two evils, one still chooses evil." --Hannah Arendt

"While a person dies every day during the eight or more hours in which he or she functions as a commodity, individuals come to life afterward in their spiritual creations. But this remedy bears the germs of the same sickness: that of a solitary being seeking harmony with the world." — Che Guevara

Overworked America: The Great Speedup

Why Supermarket Tomatoes Suck

"It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right of speech as it would be to rob him of his money."

Ten Lessons From Chernobyl And Fukushima

Reading Rosa

Self-Reliance from Essays: First Series (1841) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hans Hofmann once wrote: "In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light."

Embryonic stem cells from mice have been transformed into a rudimentary eye, raising hopes of growing parts of the human eye to investigate and treat blindness

'No Safe Levels' of Radiation in Japan

We teach children to be inquisitive, so that they will become accustomed to obeying reason: not authority like the feebleminded, or custom like fools. He who does not know, anyone can deceive. He who does not have, anyone can buy. - Simón Rodríguez

Alice Stewart: The woman who knew too much

Tariq Ali: Rights and Needs

Placebo cures shown to help with depression and stomach complaints – in Bavaria, 88% of doctors have prescribed them

Water on the Table

It is a form of psychic escapism. Taste is immaterial to the millions of addicts who are eating to alleviate the pain of existence

The Rush for Libya's Fossil Waters

"One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness." - Che Guevarra

…Life maybe be dreary, But never the same,

Smile

Colbert 2012

“If anyone understands me, then I wasn’t clear." ¬ Jean-Luc Godard

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time." - Malcolm X

Staughton Lynd could have built an enviable career as an academic but for his conscience.

Life in Sector C

30-hour workweek

The Undeserving Rich

I think we should talk about the undeserving rich

John Dewey said it brilliantly: He said that whatever the best and most privileged parents have for their kids should be the baseline for what we want for all kids. Anything less undermines our democracy.

Gandhi's Wisdom

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

"He Will Have to Live ’Til the Day He Dies with the Knowledge that He Is Guilty of a War Crime" - Tony Benn on Tony Blair

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity" - Simone Weil

George Lakoff warns us about this and gives us methods to counter it

Until they get home and can't remember their daughter's name.

"It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself, when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks." -Malcolm X

Less Work, More Life

Behavioural differences between the sexes are not hard-wired at birth but are the result of society's expectations, say scientists

Jimmy Reid: Inspirational trade unionist who led the work-in at Upper Clyde which reversed government policy on the docks

"There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." Twain didn’t say "obedient neighbor!"

The time to organise resistance is now

""this crusade ... is going to take a while" - G W Bush

Charity is the vice of unequal systems

Howard Zinn: "The Bomb

"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth." - Charles Dickens

How to Survive the Crisis (Organize!)

The income of the average working man flattened out in '73 and never went up in spending ability.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.” - General Omar Bradley

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. -- Mark Twain

Anarchism and Nonviolence: Time for a "Complementarity of Tactics"

"Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong." Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, 1792

The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism

The goal should be a country where every neighborhood features

'Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.'"- Walter Cronkite

Jottings on The Conjuncture

"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong." Frederick Douglass

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

“Compassion was the chief and, perhaps the only law of all human existence.”

Report: Public Housing Works, When You Invest In It

Waist Deep In The Big Muddy

"Parar Es Morir!" - To Stop Is To Die!

President of Cant

What Do Grassroots Organizers Actually Do When They Organize?

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies

“I am no Moses to lead you out of the wilderness … because if I could lead you out, someone else could lead you in again.” - Eugene Debs

Private Profits vs Public Health

The Economics of Revolution” Book by Helen Yaffe Reviewed by Diana Raby

Human Rights violations are so commonplace in the US of A that we do not even think of them as Human Rights violations.- Scott ffolliott

And it's the "fair use" thing which is important here

"The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around."

“A Talk to Teachers” By James Baldwin

"...a newspaper columnist as a person obliged to find significance three times a week in events of absolutely no consequence."

The Problem Is Civil Obedience

Mother Teresa's "clinics and hospitals" were in actuality hospices, where medical care was lacking.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Rebuttal Of The Dalai Lama’s Denigration of Sex By Janie Rezner

Corner Store

The absolute ... spells doom to everyone when it is introduced into the political realm. - Hannah Arendt

Wayne Morse on Democracy

Chernobyl: a Photographic Essay

Olivier Besancenot à CPolitique

Don't Deploy

Howard Zinn: “Holy Wars”

The Trials of Tony Judt

“Holy Wars” May 2, 2009

Three Holy Wars

"The crimes of the US throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them" - Harold Pinter

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest...no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism...true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village. Mahatma Gandhi

"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force." George Bernard Shaw

I don't fear death, I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice ... I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring."- Malalai Joya

Helen Caldicott Slams Environmental Groups on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions

Can we imagine a society where interest and profit do not exist?

The Unpardonable Lenny Bruce

This is a clip from Lenny Bruce's second to last performance

“As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” - William O. Douglas

“We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.” —W.H. Auden

Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

We must lay down axes, pick up our shovels, and get tree-planting

A Just Cause ≠ A Just War

An injury to one is an injury to all

“I hold the view that before Obama completes his term, there will be from six to eight right-wing governments in Latin America that will be allies of the empire." -- Fidel Castro.

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves" -. Eric Hoffer

"Our lives are worth more than their profits" - Olivier Besancenot..

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. --William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"

The Battle of Orgreave

Mike Figgis Creates Short Films Inspired by Liverpudlians' Reactions to Art from the Tate Collection

"Our for-profit health care system makes money off of death, the same way our arms merchants make money off of death. - Chris Hedges

But the paradox of public transport, of course, is that the better it does its job, the less "efficient" it may be. - Tony Judt

Corner Store - Introduction

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." -Woody Allen

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Henry David Thoreau

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” - Thomas Pynchon

Timely, Safe and Legal

The right to a great public education

Nelson Mandela on Fidel Castro

Why Someone Else Can't Do It For Us

Gore Vidal's United States of fury

“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality." Yoko Ono

If people believe there is no better way, disenchantment with the existing capitalist system will breed nothing more than cynicism and a retreat to private spaces. In fact, that is the result purveyors of capitalism are banking on.

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.' - Thomas Paine

Scientists have found an anti-ageing drug that works on mice – and could do the same for humans

"Everyone of them knew that as time went by they'd get a little bit older and a litter slower but..."

“…most people want to believe that they live in a fair world. They therefore adopt "cognitive coping strategies" that justify existing inequalities.” - Fabian research director Tim Horton

Helen Yaffe explores impact of Che Guevara as an economist and politician

The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine (1794)

Public service reform ... but not as we know it!

Dead Souls or "Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."

Corner Store - The Film

Tagore put it succinctly: “Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation worship is the goal of human history.”

"The universe we observe, if properly understood, has all the properties we should expect if there is no purpose, no design, no evil, and no good. Nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. Each form eternally destroyed while others take its place." - Darwin

"Does not Dionysius seem to have made it sufficiently clear that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?"- Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5.1

A Feather From The Sky

"Wichita Vortex Sutra"

"it takes two to speak the truth, one to speak and another to hear"
- henry david thoreau

 

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."- Gandhi

“Carved in stone on the grave of Second Lieutenant Arthur Conway Young, who died on 16 August, 1917. 'Sacrifice to the fallacy that war can end war,' his family had inscribed on his last resting place.” - R.Fisk

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