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The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…

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As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless… — Rosa Parks
The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime. — Noam Chomsky
If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty,… — Jacque Fresco
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime. — Antony Beevor
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not… — Sebastian Junger
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth. — Michael Parenti
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target… — Sebastian Junger
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. — George Wald
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a… — Kurt Vonnegut
Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered. — John Pomfret

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