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The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

When you're violent you undermine everything.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'
- Seka Milanovik

If we don't rebel, if we're not physically in an active rebellion, then it's spiritual death.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.42

Useless DECEMBER 7, 2009 Liberals are a useless lot.

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

The sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

The sweats teach you that you can't carry grudges, you can't carry hatred in your heart. It'll make you sick, so you have to learn to forgive,

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

Lies are considered true. Truth is considered seditious.

Money has replaced the vote.

Jesus was a pacifist.

The property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

The United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world - an average of 89 per 100 people,

Patriotic duty and the disease of nationalism lure us to deny our common humanity

Bankrupt corporate capitalism is on its way to bankrupting the socialism that is trying to save it,

A culture," the poet W. H. Auden observed, "is no better than its woods.

Those who look at others as simple, one-dimensional caricatures fuel the rage of the dispossessed.

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

W. Bush's life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year ... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

There is no reliable data on the number of military-style assault weapons in private hands, but the working estimate is about 1.5 million.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible ...

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

Scratch the surface of the survivalist cult in the United States and you expose terrified white supremacists.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

When human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied.

After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.

It has enriched a tiny global elite that has no loyalty to the nation-state. These corporations, if we use the language of patriotism, are traitors.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis

The superior force of despotic regimes is disarmed not through violence but through conversion.

We make our heroes out of clay.

Racism towards Muslims is as evil as anti-Semitism, but try to express this simple truth on a partisan Palestinian or Israeli website.

I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.