“In brief, to be minimally serious the ‘new atheism’ should begin by looking in the mirror.”
Noam Chomsky
(Source: Guardian)
“US media reports systematically exclude both the perspectives of “the other side” and the victims of American violence. Media outlets in predominantly Muslim countries certainly report on their plight, but US media outlets simply do not, which is one major reason for the disparity in worldviews between the two populations. They know what the US does in their part of the world, but Americans are kept deliberately ignorant of it.”
Glenn Greenwald
(Source: Guardian)
“I am not into defeatism.”
Agavebuzz
The Beatles - Do you want to know a secret
Brooklyn College’s academic freedom increasingly threatened over Israel event
New York politicians join the Alan Dershowitz-led campaign to dictate to colleges what academic events they can hold
Glenn Greenwald
Saturday 2 February 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/02/brooklyn-college-bds-alan-dershowitz
“For Obama to condemn Israel’s rogue behavior would be to condemn himself.”
Glenn Greenwald
(Source: Guardian)
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism – ‘disposition matrix’ – the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim
“The US does not interfere in the Muslim world and maintain an endless war on terror because of the terrorist threat. It has a terrorist threat because of its interference in the Muslim world and its endless war on terror.”
Glenn Greenwald
(Source: Guardian)
“Continuous killing does not eliminate violence aimed at the US but rather guarantees its permanent expansion.”
Glenn Greenwald
(Source: Guardian)
“What has been created here - permanently institutionalized - is a highly secretive executive branch agency that simultaneously engages in two functions: (1) it collects and analyzes massive amounts of surveillance data about all Americans without any judicial review let alone search warrants, and (2) creates and implements a “matrix” that determines the “disposition” of suspects, up to and including execution, without a whiff of due process or oversight. It is simultaneously a surveillance state and a secretive, unaccountable judicial body that analyzes who you are and then decrees what should be done with you, how you should be “disposed” of, beyond the reach of any minimal accountability or transparency.”
Glenn Greenwald
(Source: Guardian)
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