National Security Presidential Statement 7 - classified citizen protesters as domestic terrorists.
If Governments told the truth we would not need WikiLeaks.Anyone who has secrets is doing something wrong. Truth is never wrong. What you do when no one is looking is the measure of your character. Let's debate that.
"We should build a world that helps bring out our goodness, but we haven't. While human beings have an instinct, even a talent, for empathy and collaboration, our politics doesn't enlist and nurture that instinct. Instead of helping us to live constructively and cooperatively, in a spirit of 'We the People' which is based upon a moral compact. Politics has become a winner take all juggernaut, powered by malignant narcissism, and life in America today is becoming a war of all against all, putting the weak and vulnerable, working people, and the middle class at the mercy of money, power, and privilege." - Dorthy Day, Catholic Social Worker
"Gross inequality leads to social disease, when people's experiences have virtually nothing in common because of the economic chasm that separates their lives they experience little sympathy for each other, and this produces a social class; financial, media, and political elites, with all the characteristics of sociopaths. That is RADICALLY DEPRIVED OF EMPATHY." - from Spirt Level
"We allegedly have a civilization, which has taken a long time to overcome the primal instincts of the jungle. But this time the Hyenas have left a wasteland. The single minded pursuit of wealth for its own sake, with no regard for the fate of others, has thrown millions out of work and homes, stolen their hope and dignity, and once again, as in the first Gilded Era has torn America apart, and the end is not in sight." - Bill Moyers
"Democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and making power responsive to their hopes and needs. - Sheldon WollenBut that's not the case today, our political system now is geared to supporting the accumulation of vast wealth at the top, and instead of trying to tackle our massive and costly inequality - which will take this country right out from under us - the movers and shakers in both parties are asking ordinary people to embrace austerity and accept massive cuts in our public services even while giving the richest Americans more tax cuts and wind-falls. - Bill Moyers
We have reached this point by design, thirty years ago, ideologs and many in our Corporate Class, especially those at the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Round-table, set out to divide and conquer to fund electoral conflict for the purpose of forging a political class that would govern in its interest and they did it. - Bill Moyers
The troubling message to progressives is that they remain essentially orphans when it comes to having their political interests addressed by any corporate news outlet. While the Right has built its own vast media infrastructure – reaching from newspapers, magazines and books to radio, TV and the Internet – the Left generally has treated media as a low priority.
Though some on the Left saw hope in the MSNBC evening line-up, the larger reality was that even inside the world of NBC News, the other content ranged from the pro-Establishment centrism of anchor Brian Williams to the center-right views of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough to CNBC’s mix of free-market extremism and corporate boosterism.
