Left Quote by George Orwell

What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been…

— Charles P. Kindleberger

“We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision. And yet, of course, everything in the mainstream…

— Rebecca Solnit

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is…

— Michel Foucault

Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps…

— Muriel Lester

“Most people remember COINTELPRO from the days of the Black Panthers, Yippies, and other revolutionary groups who threatened our government during the civil rights…

— David Icke

The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful…

— Eric Schlosser

“The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power, and influence. Our sole weapon is public…

— David Mitchell

Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions…

— Richard A. Falk

We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved.…

— Barack Obama

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others…

— Margaret Thatcher