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 rich bigger meals.

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

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 it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.