William Blum Quotes

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• A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
• What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to…
• Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?
• The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because…
• Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
• No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.
• Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People…
• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
• The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the…
• From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against…
• What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings;…
• Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism…
• America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that reason is morally worse than murder or rape.

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