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"On Fox (News), I said that as the first African American president we wish him (Barack Obama) well. The question is, will he be Uncle Sam for the people or Uncle Tom for the giant corporations which are driving America into the ground."
Ralph Nader in Hail to the Chief of Staff by Alexander Cockburn - November 7, 2008.
Also see An Open Letter to Barack Obama by Ralph Nader - November 3, 2008.
"The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and the Majority Leader of the Senate, Harry Reid just sent a letter to Bush asking whether the White House believes the bailout law could be interpreted to save not just the reckless banks, but also the grossly mismanaged Big Three auto companies in Michigan.
Didn’t Congress know what they were or were not authorizing? Or did the stampede started by the demanding Bush result in blanket, or panicked ambiguity by a cowardly Congress?"
Ralph Nader, A Phenomenon of Systemic Criminality - November 13, 2008.
"Spending billions of additional federal tax dollars with no promises to reform the root causes crippling automakers' competitiveness around the world is neither fair to taxpayers nor sound fiscal policy."
John Boehner (R-Ohio) - November 13, 2008.
"What Reich (Robert Reich, an adviser to President-elect Obama) and the American economic establishment do not understand is that the recession paradigm does not apply. There are no jobs waiting at U.S. manufacturers for a demand stimulus to pull Americans back into work. The problem is not a liquidity problem. To the contrary, there have been many years of too much liquidity. Credit has grown far more than production. Indeed, U.S. production has been moved offshore. Jobs that used to support the growth of American incomes and the tax bases of cities and states have moved, along with U.S. GDP, to China and elsewhere.
The work is gone. All that is left are credit card and mortgage debts. Anyone who thinks that America still has a vibrant economy needs to log onto Economy In Crisis and face the facts."
Paul Craig Roberts, America’s economic crisis is beyond the reach of traditional solutions - November 14, 2008.
"We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. ...This divide, more than race, class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct, unbridgeable and antagonistic entities."
Chris Hedges, America the Illiterate - November 10, 2008.
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"The Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle reported Tuesday (July 22) that Boeing Co. is buying unmanned aircraft maker Insitu Inc. (of Bingen WA) for an undisclosed price."
Boeing to buy Insitu - July 22, 2008.
"Oregon health officials are looking for 400 windsurfers and kiteboarders to help them investigate reported illnesses affecting extreme sport lovers in the Columbia River Gorge."
Gorge windsurfers, kiteboarders needed for illness study - June 12, 2008.
"It is an ironic twist in history. Cascade Locks sits on part of 10 million acres ceded by the Wasco and Warm Springs Indians to the U.S. government in 1855. In exchange, the tribes got government services, fishing rights and a 640,000-acre reservation, Oregon's largest, that begins about 65 miles east of Portland. And now, many here hope the Warm Springs tribes will be permitted to build an off-reservation casino on a sliver of the land they gave up."
Proposed scenic area casino splits tribes, Columbia River town - March 24, 2008.
"A new report indicates that Oregon's only coal-fired power plant is responsible for half the particulate pollution in the Columbia River Gorge when air quality conditions are at their worst."
Gorge power plant a major polluter - March 5, 2008.
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THE AMERICAN WAR MACHINE
PLANNING A FASCIST REGIME
"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."
Arundhati Roy, Come September - September 29, 2002.
Since the end of WWII, the U.S. has bombed China (1945-1946), Korea (1950-1953), China (1950-1953), Guatemala (1954), Indonesia (1958), Cuba (1959-1960), Guatemala (1960), Congo (1964), Peru (1965), Laos (1964-1973), Vietnam (1961-1973), Cambodia (1969-1970), Guatemala (1967-1969), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), El Salvador (1980's), Nicaragua (1980's), Panama (1989), Iraq (1991-1999), Sudan (1998), Afghanistan (1998), Yugoslavia (1999), ... and none of these "democratic" intrusions has resulted in a democratic government respectful of human rights.
William Blum, A Brief History of U.S. Interventions.
"The United States maintains 737 military bases in 130 countries across the globe. They exist for the purpose of defending the economic interests of the United States, what is euphemistically called 'national security.'"
Dan Hamburg, Why There Was No Exit Plan, April 30, 2007.
"The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain ...Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia were the top buyers."
U.S. Is Top Arms Seller to Developing World.
Also see Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1999 - 2006
Bush's Global Arms Trade and Unchecked Arms Trade Fuelling Conflict, Poverty.
"Saddam had his big castles; they symbolized his power and were places to be feared, and now we have the castle of the power that toppled him."
Iraqis See Red as U.S. Opens World's Biggest Embassy - April 24, 2008.
"Taxpayers will get a see-through Berlin Wall right here in America and the city that stands for freedom and democracy the world over will be transformed into a gated community."
Editorial, Gated America - September 4, 2001.
"Local landowners realized that the fence's location had everything to do with politics and private profit, and nothing to do with stopping illegal immigration."
Melissa del Bosque, Holes in the Wall - February 18, 2008.
Also see U.S.-Mexico "Virtual Fence" Ready
Spy Towers on U.S. Border
Virtual Fence Along Border to Be Delayed
Environmental Rules Waived For Mexican Border Fence
Challenges Arise to Border Fence Project
The Twisted Logic of the Border Wall
"Neither Israel nor the United States are willing to countenance a serious political solution to either occupation, which would entail addressing the core political issue that is driving each insurgency: ending the foreign occupation. ...Like the Palestinians, Iraqis will be sequestered within walled enclaves so that the political and economic occupation can remain in place. ...One of the great ironies in all of this is the willful failure of both Israel and the United States to learn the fundamental historical lesson of the French in Algeria: that they could have negotiated a withdrawal far earlier and spared all this bloodshed and violence."
Steve Niva, The New Walls of Baghdad - April 28, 2008.
"Asked to name two countries that, in their view, posed the "biggest threat" to them, a whopping 95 percent and 88 percent of respondents named Israel and the U.S., respectively. That compared to 85 percent and 72 percent, respectively, in late 2006.
By comparison, the sense of threat posed by Iran appears to have diminished over the same period. While 11 percent of Arab respondents named Iran as one of the two greatest threats in late 2006, only seven percent did so in the most recent survey."
Jim Lobe, Attitudes Toward U.S. Worsen in Arab World - April 15, 2008.
"The fact is: There is an alliance between America and Israel in the war on Islam. They are both determined to establish Israeli control over Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple where the Dome of the Rock now stands - and the Palestinians are in the way. This is the core issue behind the current 'War on Islam' disguised as a 'War on Islamic Terrorists' and more recently, 'War on those who hate our civilization.'"
Laura Knight-Jadczyk, The Most Dangerous Cult in The World - July 30, 2005.
"The Jewish state has been treated by the USA as a holy land beyond criticism, and often beyond rational thought. The Palestinian people were thrown out of their homeland, into refugee camps, or forced to live in Israel as second-class citizens, maligned and forgotten souls who had done nothing to incur the vengeful wrath that was visited upon them, and has grown worse over the years."
Frank Scott, Israel: Time to boycott, divest and sanction - March 26, 2008.
Also see Should the U.S. End Aid to Israel? - April 4, 2008.
"So there is a problem and that problem is that the United States is just not a functioning democracy. Public opinion does not matter, and among articulate and elite opinion that is a principle -- it shouldn't matter. The only principle that matters is we own the world and the rest of you shut up, whether you're abroad or at home."
Noam Chomsky, We Own The World - January 1, 2008.
"I wouldn't go to war again, as I have done, to protect some lousy investment of the bankers.
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket."
Major General Smedley Butler (1881-1940), Smedley Butler on Interventionism.
"Years ago, I declared that there was only one war in which I would enlist -- and that was the war of the workers of the world against the exploiters of the world. I declared moreover that the working class had no interest in the wars declared and waged by the ruling classes of the various countries upon one another for conquest and spoils."
Eugene V. Debs, convicted in 1918 under the Espionage Act and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
See The Canton, Ohio Speech - June 16, 1918 and The Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive.
"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, 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, U.C. Berkeley, December 2, 1964.
"The normal legislative process that should accompany a monumental proposal (Treasury Secretary Paulson's $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008) to bail out Wall Street has been shelved. Yes, shelved! Only a few insiders are doing the dealing. These criminals have so much power they can shut down the normal legislative process of the highest lawmaking body in this land. All the committees that should be scanning every word that is being negotiated have been benched. And that means the American people have been benched. We are constitutionally sworn to protect this country against all enemies foreign and domestic, and yes, my friends, there are enemies.... The people who are pushing this bill are the very same ones who are responsible for the implosion on Wall Street. They were fraudulent then; and they are fraudulent now. We should say 'No' to this deal".
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), September 29, 2008.
"The obligation is not to be personally pure. The obligation is to effect a measurable change."
Ward Churchill, The Satya Interview, April 2004.
"There is only one group effecting a measurable change in this country: The Bush Cabal."
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"If the framers of the Declaration of Independence -- if Jefferson or Henry or the others -- if they could look down upon the country and see what their offspring has done to it, how they have outraged it, how they have robbed it, how they have polluted it -- why, my friends, they would turn in their graves. They would rise again, and they would
cleanse this country from its internal enemies, and that is -- the ruling class of the United States."
Emma Goldman,
Speech Against Conscription and War, June 14, 1917.
The Emma Goldman Papers
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ...That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
The Declaration of Independence
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