Hizbullah is not a militia.
No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
I will continue – as Labour Leader – to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East and all over the world. But those who claim to do so with hateful or inflammatory language do no service to anyone, especially dispossessed and oppressed people in need of better advocacy.
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In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
My personal position is that society must keep children safe.
As the United States geared up to overthrow the Mossadeq government, his media image deteriorated and he was routinely condemned as a dictator. The Shah, however, was virtually never described in such terms as long as his power held.
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change.
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
It is only when all black groups, join hands and speak with one voice that we shall be a bargaining force which will decide its own destiny.
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.
I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
Some of the slave-owners, like Jefferson, appreciated the moral turpitude on which the economy relied. But he feared the liberation of slaves, who have ‘ten thousand recollections’ of the crimes to which they were subjected.
