"America is the most destructive nation in history. We have overthrown more than 50 foreign governments;
we have attempted to assassinate or have assassinated more than 50 foreign leaders;
we have bombed more than 35 countries; we have interfered in the elections of dozens of countries."
William Blum, 2016
"If you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid."
Arthur Sylvester, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, to American journalists, 1965
"The United States never intended to rebuild Iraq. The United States has a long record of bombing nations,
reducing entire neighborhoods, and much of cities, to rubble, wrecking the infrastructure,
ruining the lives of those the bombs didn't kill. And afterward doing shockingly little or literally nothing to repair the damage."
General William McCoy, Army Corps of Engineers
"American leaders are perhaps not so much immoral as they are amoral. It's not that they take pleasure
in causing so much death and suffering. It's that they just don't care. The same that could be said about a sociopath.
As long as the death and suffering advance the agenda of the empire, as long as the right people and the right
corporations gain wealth and power and privilege and prestige, as long as the death and suffering aren't happening
to them or people close to them, then they just don't care about it happening to other people, including the American soldiers.
American leaders would not be in the positions they hold if they were bothered by such things."
William Blum
"A populace deprived of the ability to separate lies from truth, is no longer capable of sustaining a free society."
Chris Hedges
we have attempted to assassinate or have assassinated more than 50 foreign leaders;
we have bombed more than 35 countries; we have interfered in the elections of dozens of countries."
William Blum, 2016
"If you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid."
Arthur Sylvester, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, to American journalists, 1965
"The United States never intended to rebuild Iraq. The United States has a long record of bombing nations,
reducing entire neighborhoods, and much of cities, to rubble, wrecking the infrastructure,
ruining the lives of those the bombs didn't kill. And afterward doing shockingly little or literally nothing to repair the damage."
General William McCoy, Army Corps of Engineers
"American leaders are perhaps not so much immoral as they are amoral. It's not that they take pleasure
in causing so much death and suffering. It's that they just don't care. The same that could be said about a sociopath.
As long as the death and suffering advance the agenda of the empire, as long as the right people and the right
corporations gain wealth and power and privilege and prestige, as long as the death and suffering aren't happening
to them or people close to them, then they just don't care about it happening to other people, including the American soldiers.
American leaders would not be in the positions they hold if they were bothered by such things."
William Blum
"A populace deprived of the ability to separate lies from truth, is no longer capable of sustaining a free society."
Chris Hedges
