Our buildings can only be as tall as their bricks are strong.
Our civilisation is only as strong as its ideas are true.
When are buildings are erected by the corrupt, when their cement is cut with dirt, when pristine steel is replaced by scrap - our buildings are not safe to live in.
And when our media is corrupt, when our academics are timid, when our history is filled with half-truths and lies - our civilisation will never be just. It will never reach to the sky.
Our societies are intellectual shanty towns. Our beliefs about the world and each other have been created by the same system that has lied us into repeated wars that have killed millions.
You can’t build a skyscraper out of plasticine. And you can’t build a just civilisation out of ignorance and lies.
- Julian Assange
Hitting Society With A Sledgehammer
By Noam Chomsky, John Holder and Doug Morris
Noam Chomsky: “The Emerging World Order: its roots, our legacy”
Published on Sep 19, 2012 by SISSAschool
On September 17, 2012, Noam Chomsky held a public lecture with the title “The Emerging World Order: its roots, our legacy” at Politeama Rossetti in Trieste.
Saturday 29 September 2012
“Insurgency winning war in Afghanistan, troops die for nothing”
Published on Sep 18, 2012 by RussiaToday
There’s a lot of attention now on how unrest in the Muslim world might impact the insurgency in Afghanistan. For more on that, RT talks to British MP George Galloway, who tabled a motion in parliament demanding British troops be home by Christmas.
Qatar: Rich and Dangerous
By Felix Imonti | Mon, 17 September 2012 22:55
(Source: Guardian)
As Italy Sentences 23 CIA Agents in Rendition Case, Obama Refuses to Prosecute Anyone for Torture
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/21/as_italy_sentences_23_cia_agents
16min video interview w/Alfred McCoy
