"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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Wis. Republican Pressures UW School of Workers to Cancel Labor Arts Exhibit
Germans, French Were Keen to Sell Arms to Greece
Demonstrators from remote Aysén region march with request to neighbour country over lack of services from own government
How cities can get out of their financial bind
Battle Lines are Drawn on the Volcker Rule Occupy the SEC Pitches An Extreme Makeover of Wall Street
Robert Fisk: I've lost a good, brave, honourable friend
Greece Throws in the Towel, Bows to German Jackboot
Hypocrisy and Syria
“I only wish we’d see liberals as angry and activated about women’s labor, as about women going -- or not going -- into labor.”
We're told that Fed officials and the Obama administration saved us from another 1930s-style slump. Nonsense
China Steps Up in Syria
Redistricting Shocker in Wisconsin
The obituaries for Assad's regime are premature – after Libya, no one has the stomach to intervene
Face Masks, Snipers and Aerial Surveillance: Chicago's Newest Anti-Protest Measures Revealed
MI5 spied on Charlie Chaplin after FBI asked for help to banish him from US
Capitalism, the Infernal Machine: An Interview With Fredric Jameson
Torturer Sues Coup Generals for Making Him ‘a Monster’
Malawi: Africa's 'warm heart' feels chill of creeping dictatorship
The imperial way: American decline in perspective, part 2
Wis. Senate Passes Wetlands Deregulation in Midnight Session
Chris Hedges and the Occupy Movement The Queasy Liberal
“Western politicians and media are not yet fighting World War III, but they are talking themselves into it.” Road to Damascus… and on to Armageddon?
TEPCO: No. 2 reactor’s temperature hits 82 degrees
Syria: Slipping into Civil War
Robert Fisk: Could there be some bad guys among the rebels too?
Madrid rally outside supreme court calls for reinstatement of disbarred human rights judge after conviction for wiretapping
Why the Feds Won’t Prosecute the Big Wall Street Banks - Foreclosure Settlement: Just Another Link In a Long Chain of Corruption
The legacy of Generalísimo Francisco Franco is alive in Spain today.
We May Yet Lose Tokyo
Robert Fisk: John McCarthy knows the value of history
“Or Your Lying Eyes…” Truth and Fiction in the News Business
A blood-spattered trip through today's lamentable lingo
Robert Fisk: From Washington this looks like Syria's 'Benghazi moment'. But not from here
Book Burning in Arizona
Yakuza labor structure formed base of nuclear industry
Robert Fisk: History keeps repeating itself – as do clichés
As Karl Marx said, money turns everything into a commodity that can be bought and sold. All other values are defeated–honor, integrity, truth, justice, loyalty, even blood kin.
Robert Fisk: An attack on Tehran would be madness. So don't rule it out
The Supreme Court Decides the GPS Case, United States v. Jones, and the Fourth Amendment Evolves
“Women, in particular, seem to be on a long steady march out of the workplace and back into the home or off the books, or off to somewhere invisible.”
Robert Fisk: Syria is used to the slings and arrows of friends and enemies
Labor Fights Back After Wisconsin
The Beginning of the End of the Anti-Same-Sex-Marriage Movement
Wall Street’s Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD
Goodbye to Afghanistan
Victory for Carme Chacón in leadership contest would set her on course to be country's first female PM
A tsunami of Republican money washed into Florida to pay for the execration of the erratic Newt
Why Won't the Media Give Peace a Chance? The War Drums of the New York Times
Who Really Rescued the Big Three? The Deal That Saved Detroit and Banned Strikes
“Long embargoes kill more people than brief wars” The Ongoing War on Iran
Hatuey's Rebellion The First American Freedom Fighter
“It’s really hard to speak out, but it’s more painful to keep quiet.” The Drug War’s Invisible Victims
Foreclosure Auctions Stopped—Again
Is the “Deep State” still in business? The Turkish Riddle
Journalists—Myself Included—Swept Up in Mass Arrest at Occupy Oakland
The United States is shamefully implicated in the terror that Charles Taylor, erstwhile leader of Liberia, inflicted on the people of West Africa.
Generals Still in Charge Tough Days Ahead in Egypt
"The Overarching Lack of Trust" U.S. Probe of Border Attack Hardened Pakistani Suspicions
Dream on.
New evidence that excessive working time damages your health
Re: What Would a “Good” Banking System Look Like? Banks Weren’t Meant to Be Like This
Findings
The On-Going War Against Truth
A Deadly Comeback - Polio in Afghanistan
Bring on the Sanctions; Send in the Clowns Nuclear Iran
He doesn’t write particularly well. But most important, he is an apologist for a soft form of imperialism.
How the media enable the Republican tax agenda
The ’65 Massacres: Complicity and Cover-Up The U.S., Indonesia & the New York Times
An Ominous Optimism Will Turkey Join Sick Men of Europe?
Gingrich Plays the Race Card, as Press Cheers “Debating Skills”
A Mountain Almost 70 Years High - The Radioactive Waste Crisis
Romney's Newt nightmare: how Gingrich found the cash
I'm looking forward to people from Occupy Everywhere coming to Chicago.
They don't just propose making US media firms into judge, jury and executioner, they propose forcing every site on the internet to pitch in on the proposed censorship and, critically, they imagine punishing not just the original sites but anyone else who doesn't censor them well enough.
Judge Baltasar Garzón, who ordered Pinochet arrest, faces being struck off
Wikipedia's blackout looms
Is This Land Made for You and Me? Woody Guthrie at 100
Renewables Now Surpass Nuclear Power in the U.S.
What We Owe to Bertha Von Suttner
The U.S. Census recently released statistics that designate half of the U.S. population, 146 million, poor or low income.
Clinton Revives Dubious Charge of “Covert” Iranian Nuclear Site
California Teachers Take On Jerry Brown The Working Class Begins to Fight Back
Clinton's Tone Deaf US Foreign Policy Announcements Create New Provocations in Asia - Encircling China
Why Now? What's Next? Naomi Klein and Yotam Marom in Conversation About Occupy Wall Street
Recognizing the "Unpeople"
Scott Walker and the Stench of Scandal
Former “Dumbest Member of Congress” Scorches Romney
Universities Gone Wild: Big Money, Big Sports and Scandalous Abuse at Penn State
Much to Forgive - The Story of Bibi Sadia
Swedes Play Dirty with US Workers Nordic Whoring
His decision to sign the bill at a moment unconducive to press attention was probably intentional
Are We Witnessing the Final Disintegration of Iraq?
The timber racket A culture of corruption and political payoffs harms the land and ourselves
Bonfire of the dictators
Will 2012 Bring Tribal War to Libya?
Robert Fisk: France's shamefully forgotten allies
Low Friends in High Places: Triad of Business, Cops and Politicians Attack Occupy
How Israel Empowers Islamist Movements
Robert Fisk: Turkey's long road to reconciliation
Ethnic Studies Ruling Escalates Arizona Schools Struggle
The Repression Strengthened Us!
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
Exposing Government Crimes and Lies
CounterPunch Diary of the Year Goodbye to 2011, Year of the Rabbit, Welcome 2012, Year of the Dragon
The Iraq War Review By Harper's Magazine
Thud of the Jackboot
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." I. F. Stone
Iraq Trembles Amid Renewed Sectarian Violence
Thousands enjoy merry Christmas in Bethlehem
A Dispatch From Japan To the Radiation Zone
A Holiday Visit to Gerardo’s Hell
Alaa al-Aswany: 'Overthrowing Mubarak was too good to be true'
The adventures of Tintin in Beirut
History will remember Bradley Manning better
Propagandizing for Perpetual War
Dream of the Suburbs - Vancouvria
The Contradictions of Vaclav Havel
The Trial of Bradley Manning - Rule of Law or Rule of Intimidation, Retaliation and Retribution
Desmond Tutu urges Trinity Church to allow Occupy protester camp
Anatomy of a NATO War Crime
What Newt Gingrich would do with the children of the poor
Waste of Shame The Plot to Oust America’s Nuclear Watchdog
Occupy Takes Over the Ports: A Report from Oakland
Occupy protesters disrupt ports across US west coast
Paris bans beggars from most popular shopping and tourist hotspots
Wars Without Victory; America Without Influence
Europe’s Deadly Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy
WHEN in doubt, wheel on Teddy Roosevelt. It's article one in every Democratic president's playbook.
What next for Pakistan's President Zardari?
New US Military Bases in Honduras
New Latin American and Caribbean Bloc Defies Washington Out of the Backyard
Argentina: The Assassins of the Landowners
What Really Happened in the Russian Elections
Wis. Protesters Vow to Defy Walker’s Edict on Free Speech
No People, No Problem’ The Baltic Tigers’ False Prophets of Austerity
"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
Iraqis On Edge as Americans Leave
Why Iranians Hate the British - Iran's Coming WIKI leak?
“Dismantling Democracy One Bill at a Time”
'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'
Why the Democratic National Movement Has Failed Syrian Revolution Hijacked
And in the meantime, “life saving” for some at the cost of diminishing the lives of others
Strikes over public sector pensions hit services across UK as 2 million walk out
The Untouchables of Zuccotti Park
Battlefield America: U.S. Citizens Face Indefinite Military Detention in Defense Bill Before Senate
Hidden Hand Syndrome The Demonization of Iran
Meet Wal-Mart's Rob Walton The Worst of the One Percent?
10 members of Occupy OKC discovered that chanting “Buy local!” in a crowded Walmart is an arrestable offense
What's Next? NATO vs Pakistan
A Modest Proposal for Occupy Wall Street De-Fault Is Ours
Pepper Spray Meme
The “Left” and Libya
Ex-Ambassador Exposes Government Cover-Up Is Britain Plotting With Israel to Attack Iran?
"Where man starts by burning books he ends up by burning people." 451 at Zuccotti Park
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality
Sonia Jacobs and Peter Pringle on Their Journey From Death Row to the Wedding Altar
“Freedom,” “Dignity,” and “We Shall Overcome.”
Wisconsin's Down-home Recall Effort
The Tom and Jerry Show Back to Tahrir Square
“Our rights will not voluntarily be handed to us, so we are heading out to demand them." Frederick Douglass,
Show Trials in Benghazi
Radioactive cesium blankets 8% of Japan's land area
The American government and its highest officials, including Obama and the Clintons—people who at some time or another claimed to represent the interests of American citizens—are doing shameful work in Haiti.
First, the US backed a coup that deposed the elected president. Now, it's backing the return of death-squad government
Occupy Colleges Now: Students as the New Public Intellectuals
The Power in Silent Protest at UC Davis
By comparison, the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was a marginal event Huge Stakes in Syria
40,000 Rally, More Than 100,000 Sign Petitions, To Say: "Recall Walker"
Most rallies these days lack the kind of passion and disruptive intensity that you will see if you watch the Sotheby's protest.
March to Washington to Save Social Security and Medicare
Goon Squad Attacks Our Children
Bad Moon Rising Over Great Sirte Bay
First Steps in Reforming the U.S. Financial and Tax System
Protest and survive: the Greenham veteran who refuses to go away
Extradition request for fugitive George Wright denied by Portugal
Documenting the Dismantling of Democracy in Wisconsin
Assad will only go if his own tanks turn against him
"New Military Urbanism"
Arab League's 'roar' at Syria shows how tiny Qatar is starting to flex its muscle
Top Aide to Oakland Mayor Resigns Over Occupy Raid: Mayors, Police Are Doing Wall Street’s Business
Birgenou's Rampage U.C. Berkeley Chancellor Sends in Riot Police to Batter Students
“Give the spivs your taxpayers’ money or we’ll bring down your banking system.”
Will computers make extinct the last of Islam's proud and honourable calligraphers?
“It is clear that the current period is cascading into paroxysmal revenge attacks and political cleansing.”
Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have continually put pre-conditions on any negotiations
The Killing of Ahmed Abdullah al-Ghadamsi
Night of the Sandinistas Election Night in Nicaragua
Occupy Chicago “Don’t Trade on Me”
Reagan and Guatemala’s Death Files
All the news that fits, they print
Best Strategies for Managing the Commons
Libya’s Liberation Front Organizing in the Sahel
Do those who flaunt the poppy on their lapels know that they mock the war dead?
Oakland’s General Strike
Capitalism in crisis: what if the protesters got serious?
Bedouin's plight: 'We want to maintain our traditions. But it's a dream here'
Lakota Tribes "Refuse to Cooperate" With Tar Sands Proponents
Al Jazeera - 15 years in the headlines
UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears
WHITE POPPIES ARE FOR PEACE
A New and Frightening Stuxnet
Jack London's great-granddaughter on Tuesday's police riot
All means to attract and distract...
If It Bleeds, It Distracts: Police Brutality Threatens Occupiers' Bodies - and Message
Arrogant City New York Chic
Former US chief prosecutor condemns 'law-free zone' of Guantánamo
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. -Theodor Adorno
Blind, Idiotic and Corrupt Radiation Reporting
Scenes From Occupy Wall Street - Doing the Work
Argentine president wins landslide re-election
Lessons in humanity from a Libyan family, a tale of Dickens from Cairo – and the wrong shark
Occupy Wall Street Spreads Worldwide
Department of Agriculture research in the 1930s and '40s documented the importance of farming practices based on human skill and hand work
Dale Farm: residents condemn police violence
Welcome to America - now a banana republic
You can't blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys
California’s Message to Obama
Imperial Massacres
Third fall in a row raises fears that world’s second biggest economy is stuttering due to eurozone troubles
Assad, his raids on Lebanon, and Syria's slow slip into civil war
The XL Pipeline: a Political Litmus Test for the Environmental Movement The Biggest Environmental Crime in History?
Mapping Tokyo’s Cesium Hot Spots
A 30-year mortgage is a 30-year prison sentence.
Great War secrets of the Ottoman Arabs
An Interview with Fulvio Grimaldi on Libya Bloody Spring
How Petraeus Fueled the Plot The CIA and the Iran Caper
Failure for 90 Percent of the People (The Rest Will Be Fine)
Where to Stash the Loot? Crisis for Billionaires
Zbigniew Brzezinski: "It is easier to kill one million people, than it is to control them"
Iranian terror ‘plot’: is it just a pretext for war?
Neoliberalism Has Failed - Street Action
The Guys in the 1% Brought This On
High radiation levels found on Tokyo street scare residents
Bizarre Iranian “Plot” Doesn’t Add Up
Dr. Margaret Flowers confronts Wall Street investors trying to profit from health care
Where the Rubber Meets the Tariff Tires, Trade and Virtual Nobel
Democratic governments don't deal with terrorists – until they do
No New Death Penalty Trial Likely for Mumia
The Wall Street Occupiers and the Democratic Party
Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
The assault on public services – how can the unions fightback?
Violence shows uneasy place of minorities after Arab Spring
Who Do the White Shirt Police Report to at Occupy Wall Street Protests? Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll
Jerusalem can do strange things to your sanity
Rebellious Media: History gives us hope
Feminism may one day bring us the equality that ends alienation.
Iron Fist Tactic Suspended (For Now) Saudi Forces Pull Back
King: this may be worse than Great Depression
GOP segregation era style voting restrictions could eliminate five million voters
Why did the greatest failure of laissez-faire capitalism since the Great Depression lead to a turn to the right rather than the left in both Europe and the U.S.?
Follow the Money: Behind Europe’s Debt Crisis Lurks Another Giant Bailout of Wall Street
Saudi Police Open Fire on Civilians as Protests Gain Momentum Now It’s the Kingdom’s Turn
Now it has spread to cities all across the United States
America's new racial makeup mapped
Defend the Madison 13
Bugger Off Spying Online Is Perilous and Unnecessary
The Weak Dark Underside
It's elemental: Many private wells across U.S. are contaminated with arsenic and other elements
Supreme Court Scandal Widens Koch Entertained Justice Thomas At His Private Club
May the Empire Crumble First Obama’s Supervised Shame
The never-ending war against cliché and jargon
Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care
The Legacy of Leonard Weinglass
America celebrates the silencing of a crucial and fluent propagandist
Forget ‘peak oil’ - America has a glut of the black stuff
Palestine, yes, but Israelis draw the line at Jerusalem
The Next Shoe to Drop Cracked China?
Observations of a Jailed Journalist
The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian
Three Strikes Against the Empire The U.S. Southern Command & the 4th Fleet
Targeting the US / Israeli Relationship The Third Intifada
Affirmative Action Meets 21st Century White Supremacy at Berkeley
Protests and strikes rock Greece
Biggest Healthcare Strike Ever
A New Clarity for Palestinians Does UN Bid Herald Death of Old Guard?
Prayers, taunts and weary resignation in Jerusalem
"Not under any circumstances will I ever accept money for the loss of my brother. "I find it repulsive, taking anything from the MoD.
Mocking the Dying
Dreams of a helpful America keep Palestinians hoping
Why the Middle East will never be the same again
Lawmakers: Save My Post Office
UFCW Fights Back Southland Grocery Workers Poised to Strike
German U-boats refuelled in Ireland? Surely not
Bankers’ man, Anders Aslund, invokes Latvia to bail out his reputation
Duane Buck, Rick Perry and the politics of death
Bin Laden's haunting last words, a decade after 9/11
Denmark election tipped to oust rightwing government
Museums used to be a celebration of human achievement. Now they merely peddle misery.
Cesium absorption through roots may have long-term effect on farming Effect of contaminated soil on food chain sparks fears
Explosion at French nuclear waste plant
More Repressive at Home, More Lawless Overseas | America 10 Years After 9/11
Big Brothers Buy in at Big Media The Koch Whisperers
AP Review Finds No WikiLeaks Sources Threatened
New light on an old horror – and still there is no justice
It's not the brutality that is 'systematic'. It's the lying about it
Bristol: Chameleon skin, seditious heart
Rousing Labor Day in Madison with Tom Morello
"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
Speech at Madison Square Garden (October 31, 1936)
King's College Chapel, Cambridge: 'A gravity-defying hall of light' - video
Remembering Attica, 40 years Later
For 10 years, we've lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question
Fukushima Crisis: Caldicott Says Evacuate North-West Japan
“A real man should feel on his own cheek the blow given to another man’s cheek.” José Martí
Algeria sends the West a message by taking in Gaddafi's brood
In Which Franklin Lamb Shields a Nigerian from Rebel Racists and Dreams of Chadian Ladies
"Karl Marx got it right, at some point capitalism can destroy itself"
A Lock-Box of Outrageous Stories Medicine’s Complicity in the Cruelties of Capitalism
Defending the Commons Environmental Justice in Detroit
Cesium leak equal to 168 '45 A-bombs NISA compares contamination to Hiroshima blast
Prosecuting war crimes? Be sure to read the small print
Joe Strummer is Spinning in His Grave - Why Music Needs to Get Political Again
Qatari special forces led Libyan attack on compound
The fruits of capitalism, spreading poverty and unemployment
Chavez Officially Nationalizes Venezuela's Gold Industry
Anna Hazare’s hunger strike may have echoes of Gandhi, but his demands do not
The Bay View Massacre The Eight-Hour Workday
The Iron Heel is thus an allegorical tale of a fascist state
How long does it take before justice is irrelevant?
Happiness is: a life without money in rich Germany
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
Repeat: "...the monetary union.... is an unambiguously right-wing project."
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.
Showdown in SoCal A Strike Looms in the Grocery Industry
"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
Liverpool was right about News International all along
Highest levels in rainwater in California were collected March 22, 2011 in Richmond, CA with levels of 138 pCi/L.
Argentine Singer-Songwriter Facundo Cabral Murdered in Guatemala
One must remember that in choosing the lesser of two evils, one still chooses evil." --Hannah Arendt
"The body of Bouazizi will either be a light in this part of the world," Azoury says. "Or he will be the fire that will consume it."
Why I had to leave The Times
“Never fight anyone who can fight back.”
Man given synthetic trachea created by growing his own stem cells on artificial 'scaffold'
Tristane Banon's lawyer says she will file lawsuit centred on attempted rape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002 interview
"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
A Warrior for Liberation A Fuse Called Geronimo
Words of wisdom from an Irish Renaissance man
President Clinton pursued policies that in the long run created more damage to the American economy than any other president since Herbert Hoover
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."
Nostalgia for the Light
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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