"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." Thoreau
“The goal was to maximise public benefit rather than to maximise profits." Hilary Wainwright
I've made every mistake in the book, and I'm not ashamed of making mistakes, because you learn from your mistakes. The thing I would be ashamed of is if I ever said anything I didn't believe in order to get on .- Tony Benn

September 11, 1973
"My words do not have bitterness but disappointment." He refused to resign. "I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seeds which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever." - Salvador Allende
Allende asked Chile's workers to grasp the lesson: "foreign capital, imperialism, together with the reaction, created the climate in which the Armed Forces broke their traditionThe people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves. The people must not let themselves be destroyed or riddled with bullets, but they cannot be humiliated eitherThese are my last words, and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain, I am certain that, at the very least, it will be a moral lesson that will punish felony, cowardice, and treason."
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson
For what is the crime of burglarizing a bank, compared with the crime of building one? --Bertolt Brecht
"I could hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." -- Jay Gould, Wall Street financier, 1886

"After the first death, there is no other." - Dylan Thomas
"And the main thing I've learned is that kindness and compassion can be the biggest antidotes to anger and hatred, and I believe the biggest antidotes to violence.'' - Craig Scott
"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."
-- Cicero.
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime"- Ernest Hemingway

"Property is theft"
"Copyright Is Theft"
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"The US response to 9/11 has ushered in an epidemic of global terrorism that has claimed an estimated 72,265 lives since 2001."
There is a story about Henry David Thoreau who, as you may know, was jailed for civil disobedience for refusing to pay his federal taxes as a protest against slavery and the U.S. invasion of Mexico. While in prison, he was visited by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson walked into the jail, approached Thoreau’s cell, and called out: “Henry, what are you doing in there?” Thoreau, without skipping a beat, retorted, “Ralph, what are you doing out there?”

“Our goal is to provide the workers the skills to self-organize and manage their workplace. While this takes time, we do our best to explain and educate workers on every part of the organizing process”.
Santayana said, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret." ? - Thoreau.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. —James Baldwin
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” - Thomas Pynchon
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings".
"There's an old saw in the military that goes, 'Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.' And when it comes down to the essential elements of the Iraq war, the fight is about logistics." Robert Bryce
"A true friend stabs you in the front" --Oscar Wilde
“Almost anything you do [to help humanity] will seem insignificant, but it’s very important that you do it.” Mahatma Gandhi
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" --Mario Savio, the steps of Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, December 2, 1964
The organized effort of American industry to usurp government surpasses anything in modern history.From the use of psychology to spread truth has come the use of organized gathering of news to guide public opinion, then to deliberately mislead it by scientific advertising and propaganda. Mass capitalistic control of books and periodicals, news gathering and distribution, radio, cinema, and television has made the throttling of democracy possible and the distortion of education and failure of justice widespread. -W.E.B. DuBois 1953
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which established authorities are wrong. - Voltaire
H L Mencken wrote, "The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893
"Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are." - St. Augustine of Hippo
H.L. Mencken said: "There is always an easy solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong."
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies. " Groucho Marx
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
'The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it' - Mimi Smith, Lennon's aunt.
"The development of capitalism has arrived at a stage when, although commodity production still "reigns" and continues to be regarded as the basis of economic life, it has in reality been undermined and the bulk of the profits go to the "geniuses" of financial manipulation. At the basis of these manipulations and swindles lies socialized production; but the immense progress of mankind, which achieved this socialization, goes to benefit... the speculators." Lenin
"With the benefit of the lessons of our history we are destined to repeat many otherwise preventable policy mistakes because we believe ourselves to be exceptional.” – Dr. Zimmerman Robert
“I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address.
"The real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones." John Maynard Keynes
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." - Thomas Paine
"The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth." - Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Abraham Lincoln on December 3, 1861 - Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress
"I turned down the OBE because it's not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who've got it. It's all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest." - Ken Loach
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.- Upton Sinclair
"Our lives are worth more than their profits" - Olivier Besancenot..
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves" -. Eric Hoffer
"It is easy to see that the rich have a great distaste for their country's democratic institutions," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in his classic 19th century treatise, Democracy in America. "The people are a power whom they fear and scorn."
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." - Cassius
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. Maximilien Robespierre
"What we have in this country is socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor." Gore Vidal
"The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of capitalist production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute consuming power of society constituted their limit." (Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 3, New York International publishers, 1967.)
The man who is dependent on another is no longer a man, he has lost his standing, he is nothing but the possession of another man. - Immanuel Kant
“Mankind thus inevitably sets itself only such tasks as it is able to solve, since closer examination will always show that the problem itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or at least in the course of formation!.” Marx’s maxim in the Preface to the Critique of Political Economy
'Hay que endurecerse sin perder jamás la ternura jamás.' (One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.) - Ernesto "Che" Guevara
In what turned out to be his final performances, Bruce took to reciting (with a thick German accent) lines from a poem by the Trappist monk Thomas Merton — a meditation on the high-ranking Nazi official Adolf Eichmann. “My defense? I was a soldier. I saw the end of a conscientious day’s effort. I watched through the portholes. I saw every Jew burned and turned into soap. Do you people think yourselves better because you burned your enemies at long distances with missiles? Without ever seeing what you’d done to them?” - Lenny Bruce
"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force." George Bernard Shaw
"We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours." Lord Baden-Powell
" Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. "- John Lennon
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. Bertrand Russell
"I am an anarchist not because I believe anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal"- Rudolf Rocker (The London Years, 1956)
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” - General Dwight David Eisenhower..
Nos vies valent plus que leurs profits ("Our lives are worth more than their profits") - Olivier Besancenot
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep has fallen on you
Ye are many - they are few
- Percy Shelley
Join in the battle
Wherein no man can fail
For who so fadeth and dieth
Yet his deed shall still prevail
William Morris
“It’s like when you go to the dentist, and the man’s going to take your tooth. You’re going to fight him when he starts pulling. So he squirts some stuff in your jaw called novocaine, to make you think they’re not doing anything to you. So you sit there and ’cause you’ve got all of that novocaine in your jaw, you suffer peacefully. Blood running all down your jaw, and you don’t know what’s happening. ’Cause someone has taught you to suffer – peacefully.” -- Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), Message to the Grassroots (1964).
A Devout Memory of Adolf Eichmann
"I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere."- J. Lennon
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
"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
“. . . the ever memorable and blessed Revolution…A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror -- that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” -- Mark Twain
Howard Zinn called upon us “to engage in whatever nonviolent actions appeal to us. There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress. We find ourselves today at one of those critical points."
"...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
It’s fear of the unknown Unknown is what it is. Accept that it is unknown And it’s plain sailing_ -John Lennon
"A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice, lest you jeopardise your chances of self-promotion and self-advancement. This is how it starts and, before you know where you are, you're a fully paid-up member of the rat pack. The price is too high. It entails the loss of your dignity and human spirit. Or as Christ puts it, 'What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?'"- Jimmy Reid
“The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom” Bertolt Brecht
“The great ethical principle enunciated by Immanuel Kant, that other people should always be treated as ends in themselves, never as means to further ends.” A C Grayling
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage
"If people really knew [the truth], the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and they can't know."- British Prime Minister David Lloyd George
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — Voltaire
People liberate themselves
“Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.”
"The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth." - Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.'
- Thomas Paine
"The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them." - Albert Einstein
“The goal was to maximise public benefit rather than to maximise profits." Hilary Wainwright
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. Lord Acton
Contact Us at The Wily Python Show
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

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

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)

"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
’The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.’ Mahatma Gandhi
"This Land is Your Land"

"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

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

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

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

“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

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

"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.

"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

~ 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

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

“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

"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

“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

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

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."

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
Wily Python Stories

Courage to Resist
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
Aha! Activism = self-expression; organizing = movement-building
My Life, By Fidel Castro with Ignatio Ramonet
Democracy Now! television program for Thursday, May 27, 2004 - Remembering David Dellinger
"Man's life is but the morning dew, past days many, future ones few." - Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei
“Americans express two points of view. One is, I really like that, the other is, that really pisses me off”-- Graham Chapman
"Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
‘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
The abortion ship's doctor
I don’t understand life, it goes on and on without any meaning with no purpose – Macbeth
My defense: I was a soldier. I saw the end of a conscientious day's effort.
"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
"Nature is prodigal of the forms of life. The fit will be preserved, the weak exterminated utterly – as myriads have been before: battle within battle, ever recurring." - Darwin
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
"Money As Debt"
"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force." George Bernard Shaw
"Time Wounds All Heels" -- Dorothy Parker
"It’s how you play the game.” click
post hoc, ergo propter hoc
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oskar Wilde
"I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing Man has no choice When he wants everything" – Elvis Costello
Poet John Donne's line "never send to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee," says it well
“…it’s hard to build your soul when everyone around you is trying to sell theirs.” - William Deresiewicz
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"After the first death, there is no other." - Dylan Thomas
“He who serves all, best serves himself.” Jack London
EVERY EXPERIENCED politician knows the axiom: He who chooses the members of a commission determines its conclusions in advance.
“What should we not fear? We should not fear heaven. We should not fear ghosts. We should not fear the dead. We should not fear the bureaucrats. We should not fear the militarists. We should not fear the capitalists.” - Mao
Neoliberalism As Water Balloon
“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.”- Bertolt Brecht
An Interview With Gary Snyder - Walking Mount Tam
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“comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.
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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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