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Chairman of the CC CPRF,

Head of CPRF State Duma

Gennady Zyuganov:

We must be aware of the fact that the world is entering a period of

political & socio-economic upheavals. They have been triggered

by the irreversible crisis of the American project of neo-liberal

global expansion. With the United States on the threshold of

a veritable civil war, the turbulence is becoming still more

dangerous. The presidential elections in the USA.... may

trigger a new spiral. The prospect of the collapse of the

political, financial and economic foundations of global

capitalism.. is emerging on the world agenda. To keep

steady at the historical turning point, not to be buried

under the rubble of a decrepit system, to ensure our

independence and development – our peoples can

do this, only in close alliance with each other.

Aneurin Bevan:

''How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political power

to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of

Conservative politics in the twentieth century.''

John Hersey:

''The reality is that changes are coming...

They must come. You must share in

bringing them.''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''We have seen you anguish over the transformation of

your sons and daughters into instruments of a blind

and violent occupation - and we are sure that at no

time did you envisage such a role for the children

whom you thought.. would forge your future. We

have seen you look back in deepest sorrow, at

the tragedy of your past and look on in horror

at the disfigurement of the victim turned

oppressor. Not for this... have you

nurtured your hopes, dreams

and your offspring.''

John Cheever:

“Our country is the best country in the world.. We are

swimming in prosperity and our President is the best

president in the world. We have -- larger apples and

better cotton & faster & more beautiful machines.

This makes us the greatest country in the world.

Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a

fable. In preparatory school, America is

beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean,

and it is too bad. It is bad, because

people believe it all. Because they

become indifferent. Because they

marry and reproduce and vote

and they know nothing.”

John Cheever:

“Long ago when they first invented the atomic bomb

people used to worry about its going off and killing

everybody, but they didn't know that mankind has

enough dynamite right in his guts, to tear the

f***ing planet to pieces.”

Liam Norton, on trial for shutting

down Murdoch's printworks,
to #FreeThePress:

"The only response is to show contempt,

as you show contempt to this planet,

and to ordinary citizens' right to

try and expose criminality."

Yemen’s Supreme Political Council Chair,

Mehdi Mohammad Hussein al-Mashat:

“The US and British governments, the Zionist

regime, and most of the Western & Eastern

countries --- have been trying to obliterate

the Palestinian cause.”

G. K. Chesterton:

''I do not believe in a fate that falls on men,

however they act; but I do believe

in a fate that falls on them,

unless they act.''

Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

The problem of the Negro race first came into being in America,

by the extermination of the aboriginal Red Skins, then, by the

transplantation of natives of Africa, to fill the void created,

and at present it is confounded with the Colonial problem

which is its ultimate phase and which is now shown by

the absolute negation of the rights to property by

Negroes, by negation of their civil rights—since

their civil personality is not recognized, by the

negation of their possibilities of evolution, by

deceit, by calumnies which induce the world

to believe --- that this race is irremediably

condemned to inferiority, to stagnate...

in ignorance, brutality, and violence -

all of which is contrary --- not to

experience --- since you have

never attempted ---- in good

faith, this experience -- but
to that which we know ----
we ...who have lived with

our fathers & our mothers,
our brothers, our sisters:,
we who know - that they

are also men & women.''

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:

''The water in a vessel is sparkling;

the water in the sea is dark. The

small truth has words which

are clear; the great truth

has great silence.

''Harry S. Truman:

''You want a friend

in Washington?

Get a dog.''

John Woolman:

''There is a principle... which is pure, placed in the

human mind which, in different places and ages,

has had different names. It is, however, pure....

and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward,

confined to no forms of religion nor excluded

from any, where the heart stands in perfect

sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root

and grows, of what nation soever, they

become brothers -- in the best sense

of the expression.''

Charles Sumner:

''There is beauty in art, in literature, in science, and in

every triumph of intelligence, all of which I covet for

my country; but there is a higher beauty still — in

relieving the poor, in elevating the downtrodden

and being a succour to the oppressed. There

is true grandeur in an example of justice, in

making the rights of all.. the same as our

own, and beating down the prejudice,

like Satan, under our feet.''

Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

''It's necessary that you should no longer allow yourself to be put

to sleep by this chloroform in strong doses - in doses in bulk -

which from time to time, in flights of oratory, members of

Parliament, and sometimes their supreme chief..

administer you.''

Louise Erdrich:

“We are never so poor, that we cannot bless

another human being, are we? So it is that

every evil, whether moral or material,

results in good. You'll see.”

Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine:

"According to Judaism ------ a person without compassion
who claims to be Jewish cannot be considered Jewish.

I mourn..... for the Judaism of love and kindness,

peace and generosity, that Israel worshipers

dismiss as a Utopian fantasy."

Mary Wollstonecraft:

''The same energy of character which

renders a man a daring villain, would

have rendered him useful in society

- had that society been

well organized.''

Lion Feuchtwanger:

''Both the historian and the novelist view history

as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and

determined to make judgments, which is

up against a vast and densely packed

majority of the blind, who are led by

their instincts and unable to think

for themselves.''

Gustav Stresemann:

''No change in the balance of political parties

can alter the general determination: that

no class should be excluded from

contributing to and sharing

responsibility for,

the state.''

Zhu Xi:

The Master said - "Danger comes from being

at ease in one's position. Death, comes from

preserving one's existence. Disorder comes

from one who rules. Therefore, the superior

person is at ease yet doesn't forget danger;

survives yet doesn't forget death; rules yet

doesn't forget disorder. This is how his life

can be easeful --- and his country can be

preserved.''

On February 26th, 2014, Viktor Yanukovych:

"I can't find words to characterise this new authority.

These are people who advocate violence - the

Ukrainian parliament is illegitimate".

Nicholas Murray Butler:

''Many people's tombstones

should read.. 'Died at 30.
Buried at 60.

'''Hamshahri newspaper:

'''Many argue that the blazing fire of an armed conflict near

European borders --- is needed only by the United States,

which has always sought to weaken Russia --- trying to

achieve this by proxy.. and at the expense of conflicts

along its borders. So in whose geopolitical interests

will be the increase in the production of weapons

on a large scale, which is called for by European

officials and commissioners --- at all levels?''

Patch Adams:

''I have often found that mental patients who

are given love, creativity, and community,

find the peace that they are reaching

out for.''

John Cheever:

''Wisdom, we know, is the knowledge of
good and evil --- not the strength
to choose between the two.''

Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

''For us, all races are as welcome as the magnificent bloom

of spring. We do not understand --- that colour enters into

intellectual or moral expositions; we do not understand

that colour intervenes in economic questions ------ we

understand nothing, of the egotistical and barbarous

aims sought by certain civilized people who believe

that civilization can only reach its zenith --- by

ignoring original laws, and by debasing and

enslaving men who have the natural right

to live, to evolve, and to attain the full

expression of their being.''

Proverbs 22:7:

“The rich rule over the poor, and the

borrower is the slave of the lender”.

Political philosopher Alasdair

MacIntyre ---- in 'After Virtue':

“In the absence of traditions, moral debate

is out of joint; and becomes a theatre of

illusions in which simple indignation &

mere protest, occupy centre stage.”

President Xi, in 2013:

“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall to pieces?

To completely repudiate the historical experience

of the Soviet Union, to repudiate the history of

the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate

Stalin ------- was to wreak chaos on Soviet

ideology & engage in historical nihilism.”

President Putin:

“(China) managed in the best possible way --- in my

opinion, to use the levers of central administration

(to spur) the development of a market economy.

The Soviet Union did nothing like this and the

results of an ineffective economic policy

impacted the political sphere.”

Alexander Lebed on how NATO acts:

"Like a big drunken hooligan

in a kindergarten who says

he will hit anyone he likes."

Augustine of Canterbury:

''If we live good lives, the times are also

good. As we are, such are the times.''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''The settlements must stop - now. Peace cannot be waged

while Palestinian land is confiscated in myriad ways and

the status of the Occupied Territories is being decided

each day by Israeli bulldozers and barbed wire. This

is not simply a position; it is an irrefutable reality.''

Richard Bach:

The meaning I picked -- the
one that changed my life:
Overcome fear,

behold wonder.''

Al Sharpton:

''Civilians are arrested every single day - including

innocent ones - and they must wait until their day

in court in order to argue their side of the story.

Police officers must be subjected to the

same rules.''

Woody Guthrie:

“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good.

I hate a song that makes you think you are just born to lose.

Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing.

Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too

slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run

you down - or poke fun at you on account of your bad

luck, or hard travelling. I am out to fight those songs

to my very last breath of air & my last drop of blood.

I'm out to sing songs that will prove to you that this

is your world and that, if it has hit you pretty hard

& knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what

colour, what size you are, how you are built, I am

out to sing the songs that make you take pride

in yourself -- and in your work. And the songs

that I sing, are made up for the most part by

all sorts of folks just about like you. I could

hire out to the other side, the big money

side, & get several dollars every week

--- just to quit singing my own kind of

songs & to sing the kind that knock

you down still farther and the ones

that poke fun at you even more, &

the ones that make you think that

you've not got any sense at all.

But I decided a long time ago,

that I would starve to death,

before I'd sing any such

songs as that. The radio

waves & your movies &

your jukeboxes, & your

songbooks, are already

loaded down & running

over with such no good

songs as that, anyhow.”

Aretha Franklin:

''People... really don't have to give you

anything, so appreciate what people

give you. Every birthday is a gift.

Every day is a gift.''

Mark Twain:

“The government of my country snubs honest simplicity

but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have

developed into a very capable pickpocket

if I had remained in the public service

a year or two.”

Alexis de Tocqueville:

“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which

covers the surface of society with a network of

complicated rules, through which, the most

original minds - and the most energetic

characters cannot penetrate. It does

not tyrannise, but it compresses,

enervates, extinguishes... and

stupefies a people, until each

nation is reduced to nothing

better than a flock of timid

& industrious animals, of

which, the government

is the shepherd.”

William Godwin:

''The true key of the universe, is love.''

Joe Klein:

''When Jennifer Rubin or Abe Foxman calls me antisemitic,

they're wrong. I am anti-neoconservative. I think these

people are following very perversely extremist

policies and I really did believe that it was

time for mainstream Jews to stand up

and say, "They don't represent us,

they don't represent Israel."

Tim Wise:

''If we dont figure out a way to create equity,

real equity of opportunity and access to

good schools, housing, health care,

and decent paying jobs, we're not

going to survive as a productive

and healthy society.''

Horace:

''He who postpones the hour of living rightly,

is like the rustic who waits for the river

to run out... before he crosses.''

Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist:

''Why.. did they force us to close the banks?

To instil fear in people; and spreading fear,

is called terrorism.''

John Masefield:

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song.

Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.

Linus Pauling:

''We must not have a Nuclear war. We must begin to solve

international disputes by the application of man's power

of reason, in a way that is worthy of the dignity of man.

We must solve them by arbitration, negotiation --- and

the development of international law, the making of

international agreements that will do justice to all

nations and to all peoples ------ and will benefit all

nations and all people. Now is the time to start.

''Francis Lieber:

''Races are very often invented from

ignorance, or for evil purposes.''

Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

We, Negroes of Africa, we raise our indignant protestation against

the fate of our brothers in America. Shame to those Americans

who feign to be civilized, but who have not yet condemned, by

law, the outrage of lynching, and who continue to torture 15

millions of our brothers! Let the so-called civilized nations

stop a wholesale trade of Negroes by the purchase and

sale of Colonies -- after having condemned the slave

trade in detail! No more transfer of territories with

their inhabitants, as that recently effected by

Denmark! This is the most modern, and the

most monstrous form, of the slave trade.

Cesar Chavez:

''Though many of the poor have come to see the

affluent middle class as its enemy, that class

actually stands between the poor and

the real powers in this society - the

administrative octopus with its

head in Washington, the

conglomerates, the

military complex.''

Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

What do we want in the Colonies—we subjects—or, by special

favour and grudgingly made, citizens? We want the laws that

concentrate and codify despotism repealed. There are no

half- measures! A new constitution is needed in the

Colonies. When a member is gangrenous, it is

necessary to intervene quickly; remove the

member by amputation. That’s what the

surgeon does. If it happens... that he

hesitates, lingers, delays, ignorant

pain is aggravated—the disease

gains ground, then an ignorant

adventurer takes a scalpel

- and wounds the healthy

organ, while attempting

to remove the affected

member.''

As positions in the transitional government

went to representatives of the neo-fascist

group, Svoboda, which was condemned

by the EU, in 2012, Viktor Yanukovych:

"Have you become blind? Have

you forgotten what fascism is?"

George Sand:

''Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a

condition of intellectual magnificence, to which

we must cling, as to a treasure, and not

squander on our way through life, in

the small coin of empty words, or

in exact and priggish argument.''

Indonesia's President Sukarno:

''What can we do? We can do much! We can inject the voice

of reason --- into world affairs. We can mobilise all the

spiritual, all the moral, all the political strength of

Asia & Africa on the side of peace. Yes, we! We,

the peoples of Asia and Africa, 1,400,000,000

strong, far more than half the human

population of the world --- we can

mobilise what I have called the

Moral Violence of Nations in

favour of peace.''

Sukarno:

''We can demonstrate to the minority of the world which lives

on the other continents, that we, the majority are for peace,

not for war, and that whatever strength we have will always

be thrown on to the side of peace.''

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:

''Faith is the bird that feels the light

when the dawn is still dark.''

Patch Adams:

''Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your

life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas,

experiences. Try to live your gratitude.''

Oswald Spengler:

"Democracy has become a weapon of moneyed interests. It

uses the media to create the illusion that there is consent

from the governed. The press today is an army with

carefully organized weapons, the journalists its

officers, the readers, its soldiers. The reader

neither knows nor is supposed to know, the

purposes for which he is used and the role

he is to play. The notion of democracy is

often no different - than living under a

plutocracy, or a government by

wealthy elites."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

''Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.''

W. E. B. Du Bois:

“Beneath the Veil lay right and wrong, vengeance and love,

and sometimes throwing aside the veil, a soul of sweet

Beauty and Truth stood revealed.”

Daniel Ellsberg:

''Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew

that it involved making threats --- of
nuclear war to North Vietnam.''

Angela Davis:

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they

disappear... human beings. Homelessness,

unemployment, drug addiction, mental

illness, and illiteracy, are only a few

of the problems.. that disappear

from public view --- when the

human beings contending

with them are relegated

to cages.”

Huey P. Newton

''The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas.

They occupy them --- by sending soldiers there, by

sending policeman there. These policemen - or

soldiers, are only a gun in the establishment's

hand. They make the racist secure --- in his

racism. The gun in the establishment's

hand --- makes the establishment

secure in its exploitation.''

The Global Times:

"History teaches us, that the decline of a

hegemon often begins with its currency."

Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew:

“For America to be displaced by an Asian people long despised

and dismissed with contempt as decadent, feeble, corrupt and

inept, is emotionally very difficult to accept. The sense of
cultural supremacy of the Americans, will make this

adjustment most difficult.”

Doug Rokke, the US Army's health physicist, who oversaw

a partial clean up of depleted uranium bomb fragments in
Kuwait, is now sick. His body registers 5,000 times the

level of radiation considered “safe”:

“There can be no reasonable doubt about this. As a result

of the heavy metal and radiological poison of DU, people

in southern Iraq are experiencing respiratory problems,

kidney problems, and cancers. Members of my own

team have died, or are dying, from cancer.”

M. K. Bhadrakumar:

''The NATO declared last year that seven NATO countries

contributed dual-capable aircraft to the nuclear sharing

mission. These countries are believed to be -- the US,

Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey and

Greece. And all --- are signatories to the NPT!

Welcome to the “rules based order”! What

is perfectly permissible to the West is

forbidden for Russia!''

Mark Twain:

“Who are the oppressors? The few: the king, the capitalist

and a handful of other overseers and superintendents.

Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of

the earth; the valuable personages; the workers;

they that make the bread that the soft-handed

and idle eat.”

Simón Bolívar:

''God grants victory to perseverance.''

M. K. Bhadrakumar:

''The crux of the matter is, as with the Cuban missile crisis
of 1962 the Russian decision on tactical nuclear weapons
in Belarus is retaliatory --- drawing attention to the US
missiles stationed close to its borders. (An estimated
100 nuclear weapons, are stored in vaults in five
European countries, Belgium, Germany, Italy,
the Netherlands.... and Turkey.)''

''Worse still the US practices a controversial arrangement

known as “nuclear sharing” -- in which it installs nuclear
equipment on fighter jets of ''select'' non-nuclear NATO

countries --- and trains their pilots to carry out nuclear

strikes with US nuclear bombs.''

Daniel Berrigan:

''Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture

of good order, the burning of paper, instead

of children. How many must die before our

voices are heard, how many must be

tortured, dislocated, starved,

maddened? When, at what

point, will you say no

to this war?'

'President Putin:

"The Soviet Union once withdrew its troops from Germany - and

ended the de facto occupation of the country. The Americans,

as you know, do not, they continue to occupy Germany. But

the point is that the Europeans, in my opinion, have lost

the gene of independence, sovereignty, and national

interest. The more they are hit on the nose, or on

the top of the head ----- the lower they bend, and

smile more broadly. Everything -- in my opinion

-- will change sometime.. but when it will
happen.. it's still difficult to say now.
Sometimes I think that whatever
they are told from overseas,
they will do."

Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova:

''Recently, the Verkhovna Rada approved in the first reading, the

bill: "On Strengthening Democratic Civil Control over the Armed

Forces of Ukraine". It restricts the ability of military personnel

to participate in the political life of the country. Clear. The

political life of the Kiev regime, is something sacred and

belongs to those who occupied the offices on Bankova

Street. And those to whom the Kiev regime, together

with V.A. Zelensky, arranged their fate and form

their reality as cannon fodder, should not care

about any management institutions and the

implementation of such opportunities.

They, will be prohibited from such

options as becoming deputies at

any level -- or of making public

statements. They, are limited

in any manifestation of their

own opinion on domestic

political issues.''

Italy's Defence Minister:

“In recent years, 366 Italian military personnel have died,

and 7,500 have taken sick, with conditions potentially

linked to depleted uranium, prompting courts in Italy

to demand compensation, despite denials from

military officials, that any link existed.”

Chris Hedges:

''The pimps of war, leaping from fiasco to fiasco, cling to the

chimera of U.S. global supremacy. The dance macabre will

not stop until we publicly hold them accountable for their

crimes, ask those we have wronged for forgiveness and

give up our lust for uncontested global power. The day

of reckoning, vital if we are to protect what is left of

our anemic democracy and curb the appetites of

the war machine, will only come when we build

mass anti-war organizations that demand an

end to the imperial folly threatening to

extinguish life on the planet.''

Margarita Simonyan:

''People who throw bound women into the moat --- after

shooting them – The Hague has no complaints about

them. People who bullied our servicemen --- The

Hague has no complaints against them. People

who shot at houses in Mariupol – The Hague

has no complaints about them. The Hague

has no complaints --- about those who

started all this.. in 2014. There are

complaints: against Maria Lvova-

Belova, for taking out children

from orphanages from under

shelling, evacuating them –

and now -- The Hague will

chase after her, for this.''

Dmitry Medvedev:

“The behaviour of Washington and others, this year

- is the last warning to all nations; there can be no

business with the Anglo-Saxon world: it is a thief,

a swindler, a card-sharp, that could do anything.”

Ugandan foreign minister, Jeje Odongo, Feb. 28th, 2023:

“We were colonized and forgave those who colonized

us. Now, the colonizers are asking us to be enemies

of Russia, who never colonized us. Is that fair? Not

for us. Their enemies are their enemies. Our

friends are our friends.”

Namibia’s P.M. Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila:

“We, are promoting a peaceful resolution of the

Ukraine conflict -- so that the entire world and

all the resources of the world can be focused

on improving the conditions of people around

the world -- instead of being spent on

acquiring weapons, killing people,

and actually creating hostilities.”

Edward Young:

''A God all mercy, is a God unjust.''

Ms. Alena Douhan, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the

negative impact of unilateral coercive measures:

"Secondary sanctions or threats of secondary

sanctions and civil and criminal penalties,

are illegal."

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang:

"The United States talks a lot about following rules.

But imagine two athletes competing in an Olympic

race. If one athlete, instead of focusing on giving

one's best, always tries to trip or even injure the

other, that is not fair competition, but malicious

confrontation and a foul!"

Cong Yi professor of Finance & Economics Tianjin University:

"Unlike the West's approach of exploitation, China stresses
cooperation and win-win results. While the US is making

all kinds of noise.. in the short term, China's mutually

beneficial and win-win development, is in line with

the development interests of most countries
and therefore, will be welcomed."

Caitlin Johnstone:

''They don’t work so hard to manufacture our consent because

it’s fun for them, they work so hard to manufacture

our consent, because they require our consent.

So it’s important that we don’t give it to them.

It’s important that we forcefully oppose the

global conflict the US-centralized empire

is pushing us all towards, and that we

vocally decry the propaganda that’s

being used to grease the wheels

of that depraved agenda.''

''Ultimately the powerful have no answer to the problem that

there are a whole lot more of us than there are of them and

that there’s really nothing they can do if we decide not to

be ruled by them anymore.''

''Sooner or later, the giant that these monsters have been

keeping in a propaganda-induced coma, is going to start

stirring. We’re going to have to wake up sooner or later,

& because of the stakes involved, it is very important

that we do everything we can, to try and make sure

that it is sooner.''

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Tuesday:

"If the US does not hit the brake but continues

to speed down the wrong path, no amount of

guardrails can prevent derailing, and there

will surely be conflict and confrontation."

President Kennedy's American University

speech in 1963, ended with these words:

“We must do our part to build a world of peace

where the weak are safe and the strong are

just. We are not helpless before that task

or hopeless for its success. Confident

and unafraid, we must labour on

towards a strategy of peace.”

In October 2022 Cambridge University harmonized

137 countries' surveys on their attitudes towards

the West and towards Russia and China:

''Of 6.3 billion people who live outside the West,

66% feel positively towards Russia - and 70%

feel positively towards China. Of the 66%

feeling positive about Russia 75% are in

South Asia, 68% in Francophone Africa,

62% in S.E. Asia. Opinion of Russia

remains positive, in Saudi Arabia,

Malaysia, India, Pakistan

and Vietnam.''

Evan Reif, explaining post-war W. Germany:

''The state machinery once called the Greater German

Reich, had now simply been absorbed into a new

structure, now called the North Atlantic Treaty

Organization (NATO). Now in the position of

the deputy, Ernst Albrecht took on the

same role his boss had in the 1940s,

this time with “blood and soil”

replaced with “European

values.”

Ernst Albrecht, father of Ursula von

der Leyen (born Ursula Albrecht):

“If we succeed in bringing people of above-average

capabilities to governance, an autocracy, or the

rule of the few, will be able to create a better

order, than the rule of the people.”

Richard Darré, Ernst Albrecht's Nazi S.S. boss:

“By blitzkrieg -- before autumn -- we shall be the absolute
masters of two continents, a new aristocracy of German
masters will be created…. slaves assigned to it. These

slaves to be their property and to consist of landless,

non-German nationals. We actually have in mind, a

modern form of medieval slavery, which we must

and will introduce, because we urgently need it -

in order to fulfill our great tasks. These slaves

will by no means be denied the blessings of

illiteracy; higher education will, in future,

be reserved only for the German

population of Europe.”

India’s foreign minister, S. Jaishankar:

“Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe’s

problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s

problems are not Europe’s problems.”

Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Executive Director, Task Force

on National & Homeland Security. October 31, 2020:

''The one mission that makes the most sense for Poseidon,

not mentioned by Russia, is trailing and destroying at-sea

SSBNs. Nuclear-powered Poseidon -- could tail SSBNs for
months or years - waiting outside ports for their target to
resume patrols. Artificially intelligent Poseidon, could be

programmed - to recognize the acoustic signature of its

target submarine, & detonate on command. The lethal

radius of a 100-megaton warhead against submarines

--- is over 100 kilometres. Russia plans to deploy 32

Poseidons. Perhaps not coincidentally -- enough to

assign two Poseidons to tail each of 12 Columbia

SSBNs and 8 Poseidons to target the 8 SSBNs of

allies Britain and France."

Robert Freeman:

''Last year, the ruble reached its highest exchange rate

in history. Russia’s 2022 trade surplus of $227 billion,

was up 86 percent from 2021. The U.S.’ trade deficit

over the same period, rose 12.2 percent, and is

approaching $1 trillion.''

Uriel Araujo, researcher, on Nord Stream:

''In Germany - right now - only Die Linke has supported

AfD calls for an investigation.. but more voices within

the German broader political spectrum are expected

to join them.''

President Xi Jinping, in June 2022:

“As important emerging markets --- and major developing

countries, the BRICS nations should take responsibility

and take action --- to bring positive, stabilizing and

constructive forces to the world. It is necessary

to uphold justice, equality and solidarity and

reject hegemony, bullying and division.”

John Jay Chapman:

''There are lots of people who cannot think

deeply ------ without damaging their minds.'

Cymraeg {Welsh} actor, Richard Burton:

It made me feel, what strong, what

wonderful people, do I come from,

that they helped to give me my

form, my strength”.

Pepe Escobar:

''...were Tehran to play hardball, the US Navy or military

could never keep the Strait of Hormuz open – by the

admission of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Oil prices

in this case, would rise to possibly thousands of

dollars a barrel, according to Goldman Sachs

oil derivative experts – and that would

crash the entire world economy.''

Feofan, priest tortured in Ukrainian captivity:

“I am confident - that Russia is in the process of

writing a new chronicle of its greatness, in the

best sense of the word. The fate of the world

is being decided in Donbass --- right now.

We all realized that, in 2014, but we

understand it even more clearly,

right now.”

Chunga:

''The USA is basically a fiat printing

press - masquerading as a country.''

Tsar Nicholas II:

''Tell everyone that the evil that is in the world

will grow even stronger, but that it is not evil

that will triumph, but love.''

William Schryver:

''The US empire’s most acute concern in recent years

had been the discernible advance of Russo-German

reconciliation and economic collaboration. Going

back over a century, this prospect... has always

been understood as the single greatest threat

to Anglo-American dominance of the western

world, and hence a development that must

be arrested before it can ever

gain momentum.''

William Schryver:

''The [US] imperial masters do not hold genuine aspirations

to spread righteousness and prosperity around the world.

As with all declining empires that preceded this one,

the imperial elite aspire to dominion as an end per

se. It is the self-satisfaction of unquestioned

primacy, that is the ultimate wellspring of

all their actions - at least insofar as the

apparatus of tribute and plunder

remains adequately intact.

''Therefore, in the context of a “collective security

architecture” in Europe, it is not the alleged

threat of despotic Russian expansionism

that has motivated imperial actions, but

rather.. the thought that the Europeans

themselves would agree to a mutually

satisfactory multilateral security

arrangement -- and then firmly

request.. that the Americans

finally take all their military

toys and go home.

''Concerningly, it has become increasingly evident that

the empire would rather rule over the ashes and

rubble of Europe than permit its constituent

nations to reclaim their sovereignty on

their own terms, and by their

own volition.''

Blogger:

''When I was a kid in High School, there was one big

guy who was bullying his classmates.. a different

one everyday, slapping them for no reason, etc..

One day - one did not want to take it anymore &

jumped to his neck choking him; both fell to the

ground but he kept the choking. Then all of the

classmates jumped in and started beating and

kicking the bullying guy and nearly killed him.

He never returned ------ dropped out of school.

That, is what the world needs to do with the

US. The world is sick of these US criminals.

The US ---- has no interest in cooperation,
working together etc, in their delusion,
they think they are entitled to subdue
the world ------- and rule the planet.''

Charles Mackay:

What might be done if men were wise —

What glorious deeds, my suffering brother,

Would they unite,

In love and right,

And cease their scorn of one another?

Oppression's heart might be imbued

With kindling drops of loving-kindness,

And knowledge pour,

From shore to shore,

Light on the eyes of mental blindness.

All slavery, warfare, lies, and wrongs,

All vice and crime might die together;

And wine and corn,

To each man born,

Be free as warmth in summer weather.

The meanest wretch that ever trod,

The deepest sunk in guilt and sorrow,

Might stand erect

In self-respect,

And share the teeming world to-morrow.

What might be done? This might be done,

And more than this, my suffering brother —

More than the tongue

Ever said or sung,

If men were wise and loved each other.

Serbia's Colonel General Ratko Mladic:

''I think it is time for all peace-loving people

of this world, to start pondering where all

this leads. I think it's high time that the

weapons in this part of the world,

and all over the world, were

silenced.''

George Washington:

''My first wish, is to see this plague

of mankind, war, banished from

the earth.''

August Strindberg:

“There are poisons that blind you,

and poisons that open your eyes.”

Jon Cruddas, MP for Dagenham and Rainham:

''We bet the ranch on the private oligopoly of house

builders, but it’s in their interests to bank land and

ration housing, so that house prices continue to

rocket. So you have a structural undersupply,

at the same time as we live longer and

decouple earlier.''

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:

''I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy.''

Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

''We demand respect for the territorial integrity and the national

independence of the rare African states... or states of African

origin, which still possess their autonomy. Abyssinia, Liberia,

Haiti and St. Domingo, are striking proofs of the organizing

and political genius of Negroes, notwithstanding their

persistant sabotage by nations eager for conquest.''

Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

''It is sufficient to say that even today, in the Colonies, there

are Administrators who insert like suppositories, cartridges

of dynamite in the natives, and order them to run; then

suddenly the dynamite explodes -- and the natives are

blown to pieces. This happens in the French colonies!''

Douglas Macgregor:

''Russia is forcing Ukraine.. to

stare annihilation in the face.''

Dmitry Medvedev:

“Soon, the Kyiv regime

will have no sea at all.”

US president, John Tyler:

''I should be pleased to see all the nations

on the earth, prosperous and happy and

rich, for it would furnish to me the best

evidence of the prosperity of my

native land.''

Harold Wilson:

''There is no future for Britain in a Little England

philosophy. There is no future either, for

anyone, in a Little Europe philosophy.''

G.K. Chesterton:

“When the Founding Fathers talked about democracy

they did indeed mean, doubtless, the government of

the people, by the people, for the people. But they

meant the government of the people they knew,

by the people they knew, for the people

they knew.”

Zbigniew Brzezinski warned the USUK:

“Potentially the most dangerous scenario would be

a grand coalition between Russia, China and Iran.”

Former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski:

"Corruption and megalomania, have

brought Ukraine to its current state."

Evo Morales:

“Superiority, is so important to them - the ability to

dominate. It’s reprehensible that they don’t have

a principle of humanity, of brotherhood. They

are, instead, slaves to the policies of how

to dominate.”

Batiushka:

''At present.... the Ukraine is surrounded by nearly 700,000

Russian troops. As they are not taking part in the fighting
in Bakhmut or anywhere else, it is assumed that they are

being held back ----- to form a future Army of Occupation

after Bakhmut. They will restore freedom and normal life

to every Ukrainian who wants to get rid of their Western

-enforced isolation.... and join a Free Ukraine allied with

the Russian Federation and Belarus and the Free World

of international organisations ---- like the EEU (the

Eurasian Economic Union), BRICS, and the SCO.

They all represent the seven billion ---- the 88%

of the world who constitute the Global North,

the Global South and the Global East. The

million or two isolationists who do not

want this, will flee across the Polish

border ------ together with Zelensky

and his corrupt clique ------ if they

are still alive by then.''

Ukrainian writer Larisa Nitsoi tweets ------- Russia

supporters must wear a red star on their clothes:

"...this is not segregation, we're not fascist Germany,

people just need to understand who is around them."

Mike Whitney:

"The plan to engage Russia militarily is a tacit

admission: that the United States can no

longer maintain its global dominance

through economic or political

means alone."

The new Czech President, General

Pavel's, election campaign slogan:

"It's time to use the big guns."

Humpty Dumpty:

“When I use a word... it means just what I

choose it to mean, neither more nor less."

Mr Volodin, Speaker of the Duma:

"If Washington and the NATO countries supply

weapons that will be used to strike civilian

cities and attempt to seize our territories

- as they threaten - this will lead to

retaliatory measures -- using

more powerful weapons."

Oleg Nesterenko:

''Since 2014, the beginning of the conflict provoked by

the US in Ukraine, through a coup d’état --- Russia has

got rid of almost all US debt. Whereas in 2010, Russia

was one of the top 10 holders of U.S. Treasury bonds,

with over $176 billion, in 2015, it held only about $90

billion, meaning that the total mass of these assets

had almost halved, in 5 years. Today, Russia holds

only about two billion in U.S. debt, an extremely

insignificant amount, comparable to the

mathematical error of the global

Treasury bond market.''

Maria Zakharova:

''You in the West have long since lost any notion of true values

based on love. It is impossible to believe, that the West is now

supplying German tanks - to where they have already brought
so much trouble & suffering, killing tens of millions of people.
Like imagining - that you know what love, compassion,
honour, conscience are, after all.''

Zakharova's visceral excoriation of Scholz:

''Perhaps the only thing more concerning and disgusting,

than Germany sending its tanks to fight against Russia,

is the almost total lack of discussion within its media

and political class --- their utter disregard for how

Russia will perceive it, and - most of all - the

total fecklessness and subordination of

the German people, judging by the

public's lack of reaction.''

India's Mahabharata:

Q: “is it permitted to wage war against one’s brothers?”

A: “It is permitted, but only if there is sorrow in your

heart.”

US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 29/4/1938:

"The first truth -- is that the liberty of a democracy is not
safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power
-- to a point where it becomes stronger... than their
democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is
Fascism: the ownership of Government by
an individual, by a group.... or by any
other controlling private power.

The second truth -- is that the liberty of a democracy
isn't safe -- if its business system doesn't provide
employment and produce amd distribute goods
in such a way... as to sustain an acceptable
standard of living."

Former US President Donald Trump, to Biden:

“First come the tanks --- then come the nukes.

Get this crazy war ended, now. So easy to do.”

Scott Ritter:

''NATO is a Suicide Pill for the World.
Pray that Russia Wins.''

Serbian President Vucic on West's current agenda:

"What worries me is that there is no longer a rational

approach to solving problems. I saw this at the

meeting with the Big Five. No matter what

I said - and no matter what facts I gave -

no one wanted to listen to me. Reason

no longer plays any role. They have

their own agenda, and that is the

defeat of Russia, and along the

way, anyone who gets in their

way...... will be mopped up."

Calgacus, in AD 84:

''Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder

exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy is

rich, they are rapacious; if he is poor, they lust for

control; neither the east nor the west has been

able to satisfy them. Alone among men they

covet with equal eagerness poverty and

riches. To robbery, slaughter and

plunder, they give the lying

name of empire; they

create a wilderness

and call it peace.''

Bundestag (AfD) deputy Petr Bystron:

“You are bringing German tanks against Russia in Ukraine.

Your grandfathers already tried to do this then with the

Melniks and Banderas, as they do - again - now. And

what is the result? Result, Russian tanks, are here

in Berlin. And you pass by two of them every day

on your way here. The Russians have over

10,000 tanks and can mobilize 2 million

men. Two hundred of our tanks are of

no importance. This conflict cannot

be won militarily."

Ursula von der Leyen:

"When my own children join the armed forces,

and it will be necessary to deploy them, then

I will indeed be afraid like any other mother."

Interviewer: "Is one of your 7

children in the armed forces?"

Ursula von der Leyen: "No,

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."

Giuseppe Biden:

“18 FBI agents have verified - that Hunter

Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation!”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"We know... they are lying.

They know they are lying.

They know that we know

they are lying. We know

that they know that we

Know they are lying.

And still...... they

continue to lie."

Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK:

"Most of the weapons supplied to the Ukrainian Armed

Forces from Western countries are outdated, they just

expired. If you want to dispose of it ------- give it to us."

Oleg Nesterenko:

''Given the fact that -- despite the pressure of

unprecedented Western sanctions Russia

continues to maintain both healthy state

finances, an insignificant public debt, a

trade surplus, and no budget deficit --

the confrontation in Ukraine, cannot

but be won by Russia --- in one form

or another. The irreversibility of the

process --- makes it inadvisable to

'substantially' revise US strategy

toward Ukraine, which could be

reflected in an additional signif-

icant increase in quantitative

and qualitative... military and

financial support, especially

since such an initiative......

proportionally increases

the risks ------ of nuclear

strikes on US territory.''

Condoleezza Rice, then US secretary

of state ----- in her 2014 TV interview:

“In the long term.. we just want to change the

structure of [the EU’s] energy dependence.

Make it more dependent on the North

American energy platform, on the

excellent abundance of oil and

gas found in North America.”

Hugo Dionísio:

''The total submission of the G7 countries and the EU

to the dictates of NATO, an organization created to

groom them, which today is confused with the EU

itself; the blind application of all economic and

financial sanctions and guidelines; the lack of

protection mechanisms for the respective

internal markets… All this has the effect

that we are witnessing, which had been

foreseen by so many silenced people -

throughout this time. How they must

hate to be right.''

Michael Hudson:

''United States Treasury officials have told me that

all they need to do is give little white envelopes

filled with dollar bills and they’ve been able to

control European politics.''

Charles Higham - a half-Jewish Briton

whose family perished in Nazi camps:

''....the US government could do nothing about the

collaborative ventures - including strategic ones -

of US conglomerates, with Nazi Germany, during

the war. The only person to protest to Roosevelt

about these practices.. was the Supreme Court

Justice, Felix Frankfurter. Roosevelt... told him

that - if he took prohibitive measures --- there

was the expressed risk --- that Big Business

would retaliate by stopping war production

and that he, Roosevelt, could do nothing

about it. Roosevelt suggested, that too

many US political leaders were bound
or held by Big Business, to hope for a

successful mobilisation of coercion.

This marks the pathetic limits of the

true extent of US political power in

relation to other dominant forces."

Posted by OohCanada on Moon of Alabama:

''2 weeks ago, the west announced Ukraine's new

package of weapons and the Russians stated the
western supply routes will be targeted ---- (west

Ukraine got smashed) ---- This time, they were

targeted with missles... that Nato didn't even

detect & instantly everyone walked it back.

''They look like fools and will either need to send those

goods or just get it over with and fold. The Russians

pointed to Ukraine's obsolete air defense as a huge

weakness (they mean Nato's current systems
that Ukraine uses).

''The realization that they can bomb people in bed

without a warning must have a few money men

in the west stressed right out.''

Lula da Silva:

“We need to rescue the model of state institutions,

public banks, and state-owned companies in the

development of this country. Brazil is too big, to

renounce its productive potential. It makes no

sense to import fuels, fertilizers, oil platforms,

aircraft and satellites. We have sufficient

technical capacity and market, to

resume industrialisation.”

Oleg Nesterenko:

''Only an extremely aggressive U.S. foreign policy,
backed by world military & monetary domination

allows the US to occupy its current position. Any

other state which had committed even a fraction

of [its] crimes would be classified by the “inter-

national community” gathered around the US,

as a criminal, pariah state and would be

subject to a “legal” embargo more

serious than that of North

Korea, Iran and Cuba..

combined.''

Lugansk republic’s acting head, Pasechnik:

"The situation at the front, is complicated by the

fact that - today - we are fighting not only with
the Ukrainian army: there are many foreign

mercenaries and instructors, in the

ranks of the enemy. We know that

thousands of mercenaries, from

more than fifty countries, are

fighting in the ranks of the

Ukrainian Nazis, mainly

from Eastern Europe."

Patrushev:

''We are not at war with Ukraine, because by definition, we
cannot have hatred for ordinary Ukrainians. Ukrainian
traditions, are close to the people of Russia, just as
the heritage of the Russian people.. is inseparable
from the culture of Ukrainians. And... the sooner
the citizens of Ukraine realize - that the West is

fighting Russia with their hands, the more lives
will be saved. Many people have long realized
this ------- but they are afraid to declare it, for
fear of reprisals. The West does not plan to
save anyone's life --- at the expense of its
own enrichment -- and other ambitions.''

Patrushev:

''That sudden withdrawal of the Americans from

[Afghanistan] as it turned out, was largely due

to focusing on Ukraine, where -- according to

their estimates -- the preparation of the Kiev

puppet regime.. for offensive anti-Russian

actions, was going well. By the way, this

was confirmed by US Secretary of State

Blinken, who said that if the US military

had not left Afghanistan --- Washington

would not have been able to allocate

so much money to Ukraine.''

Former US Senator Richard Blake:

“We don’t care how many Ukrainians will die. How

many women, children, civilians and military. We

don’t care. Ukraine cannot take the peace

decision. The peace decision can only be

taken in Washington. But, for now, we

want to continue this war --- we will

fight --- to the last Ukrainian.”

Jason Michael McCann:

''What journalists in the western media... in the US and
Europe didn't realise.. between 2014 and the Russian

invasion, was that these Ukrainian Nazis, both in the
US and in the Nazi battalions of the Ukrainian army,

are important C.I.A. assets. As ideological fighters
they are committed to their hatred of Russia. The

US State Department, trusts them more than any

other political group or faction in Ukraine.These

are the people that the US government has been
working with funding & training for almost eight

decades. In the US’ global fight against Russia,

these Nazis have to be protected at all costs --

they are essential to the US plan in Ukraine.''

saying in the US in the 1960's:

"War is good for business, invest your son."

saying in the US in the 2020's:

''War is good for business, invest

your overweight, gender-fluid,

adopted, educationally

challenged, halfwit.''

A Russian Officer's wife speaks at a mourning rally

dedicated to Russian fighters killed in Makeyevka:

''The whole West is rallying to destroy us - us and our
children - but I assure you, our husbands and sons

will not allow it... for the inconsolable widows,

for the orphans. We will not forgive, and

victory will definitely be ours.''

Rob Endert:

''If Bakhmut is the central logistic hub for the last

defensive belt, then... by putting Bakhmut in a

difficult position prevents it from playing this

vital logistic role. The current situation is

already a Russian strategic success,

even before Bakhmut has fallen.''

Pierre de Gaulle, Grandson of President de Gaulle:

''I think that public opinion in France is beginning

to understand what the malicious game of the

Americans is today. Using lies primarily when

communicating with allies within NATO -- the

United States managed to use the Ukrainian

crisis to destabilize Europe.''

R. Buckminster Fuller:

''Sadly we see enormous numbers of stranded poverty

stricken people, while potential abundance, is being

deliberately curtailed by governments subservient

to the landlord’s will. Humanity is so accustomed

to failure it still assumes failure to be normal and

does not realize that it has literally earned – and

actually acquired - the capability to take care of

everyone on earth at a higher standard of living

than ever - heretofore - experienced by anyone.

The really big fact is that we are going to have

to go through, a complete mental resorting of

what its all about. Then we are going to have

to go about taking care of everybody, not as

''on relief'' but with the same spontaneous

welcome and love..... accorded a new-

born baby. Landlordism will no longer

be able to extract a ransom. Money

too, will become obsolete, with the

ability to produce enough - to take

care of all. The fact, that we now

have the capability to support all

life, and are not doing so, means

we have to introduce... a new

system. One that can make

the world work.''

Dmitry Medvedev on May 11th, 2022:

''The US House of Representatives has approved a $40
billion aid package for Ukraine. Biden asked for less,
but - from the bounty - they threw in a couple more
billion. The money is huge and there will be a lot

of hunters to share it, in the American military-

industrial complex. Not to mention, the banal

thieves on both sides of the ocean. It is quite

obvious that “aid” on such an unprecedented

scale isn't at all explained by love for Ukraine

--- and not even support for its own economy.
Its goal.. is to continue a proxy war against

Russia, the desire to inflict a heavy defeat

on our country ---- to limit its economic

development and political influence

in the world. It will not work. Their

printing press, due to which, the US

is constantly increasing its already

inflated national debt --- will break

faster. Not to mention.. the insane

prices.. for gasoline and food, for

the growth of which, Americans

should thank their Russophobic

authorities. But the goals of
the special operation...
will be achieved.''

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:

''If you cannot sleep because of the Russian-Ukrainian
conflict, here are pieces of advice, to calm yourself.
Firstly, imagine this is happening in Africa. Imagine

it's happening in the Middle East. Imagine Ukraine

as Palestine. Imagine Russia is the United States.''

Karl Marx from ‘Capital: A Critique

of Political Economy, Volume I’:

''The discovery of gold and silver in America, the

expiration, enslavement and entombment in

mines, of the indigenous population of that

continent, the beginnings of the conquest

and plunder of India, and the conversion

of Africa, into a preserve for the

commercial hunting of black

skins.. are all things which

characterize the dawn of

the era of capitalist

production.''

Image: President Putin: ''The situation in the world is changing dynamically and the outlines of a multipolar world order --- are takingshape. An increasing number of countries and peoples are choosing a path of free and sovereign development based on thei

President Putin:

''The situation in the world is changing dynamically,

and the outlines of a multipolar world order --- are

taking shape. An increasing number of countries

and peoples - are choosing a path of free and

sovereign development based on their own

distinct identity, traditions and values.''

''These objective processes... are being opposed by the

Western globalist elites, who provoke chaos, fanning

long-standing & new conflicts, and pursuing the so-

called containment policy, which, in fact, amounts

to the subversion.. of any alternative, sovereign

development options. Thus -- they are doing all

they can, to keep hold onto the hegemony and

power that are slipping from their hands; they

are attempting to retain countries & peoples

in a grip of what is essentially a neocolonial

order. Their hegemony.. means stagnation
for the rest of the world & for the entire

civilisation; it means obscurantism,

the cancellation of culture, and

neoliberal totalitarianism.''

Timothy Leary (1920-1996):

"Almost everyone today is brain-damaged

by our education, which is designed to

produce docile automatons."

General Sherman, told his wife his purpose:

''Extermination --- not of soldiers alone, that is

the least part of the trouble --- but the people.''

Historian Lee Kennett, in

his biography of Sherman:

“Had the Confederates somehow won, had their

victory put them in position to bring their chief

opponents before some sort of tribunal, they

would have found themselves justified in

stringing up President Lincoln and the

entire Union high command --- for

violation of the laws of war ---

specifically, for waging war

against noncombatants.”

Jeremy Kuzmarov:

“Former Bolivian President Evo Morales calls

for a global campaign --- to eliminate NATO.”

Evo Morales:

“Julian Assange's detention --- represents an escalation,

an intimidation: so that all the crimes against humanity

committed by the different governments of the United

States --- are never revealed. So many interventions,
so many invasions, so much looting.”

Milagros Pichardo Pérez:

''Even the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López

Obrador, directly asked his counterpart, Joe Biden,

to release the founder of the WikiLeaks portal, to

whom he "opens the doors of his country," and

described him as "the best journalist of our

time." He also considered, that the

treatment he has received, only

"for denouncing human rights

violations", is worse than

that of a criminal.''

The UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer,

says Assange has suffered psychological torture:

"How far have we sunk?"

Robert Penn Warren wrote in his 1960 book:

“The Northerner, with his Treasury of Virtue, caused

by his victory in the Civil War, feels as though he has
an indulgence; a plenary indulgence, for all sins past
present & future. This indulgence is the justification

for our crusades of 1917-1918 and 1941-1945, and

our diplomacy of righteousness, with the slogan

of unconditional surrender and universal

rehabilitation --- for others.”

Thomas DiLorenzo:

''Lincoln’s war destroyed the voluntary union of

the founding fathers and replaced it with an

involuntary union held together by threat

of invasion, bloodshed, conquest,

and subjugation.''

Evo Morales:

“They think that some countries are the property

of other nations. They think God put them there,

so the world belongs to the U.S. and the UK.

That’s why the rebellions and the

uprisings will continue.”

Evo Morales:

“In politics we must ask ourselves: Are we with the

people or are we with the empire? If we are with

the people, we make a country; if we are with

the empire, we make money. If we are with

the people, we fight for life, for humanity;

if we are with the empire, we are with

the politics of death, the culture of

death, interventions and pillaging

of the people. That is what we

ask ourselves as humans,

as leaders: ‘Are we

at the service of

our people?’”

Yves Smith of 'Naked Capitalism':

“Despite the aggressive Western sanctions….... Russia

has been very restrained, as far as counter-measures

are concerned. So, after loudly saying that the EU

wants nothing to do with Russian energy, or

Russian pipelines... the EU should hardly

be upset, if Russia is tired of laboring

not to give them what they asked

for, an economic divorce. The

problem is, Europe is now

upset, that it’s getting

what it acted like

it wanted.”

Catherine the Great, of Russia:

''A man ought to form, in his own mind, an exact

and clear Idea of what liberty is. Liberty is the

right --- of doing whatsoever the laws allow:

and if any one citizen could do what the
laws forbid --- there would be no more

liberty; because others would have

an equal power of doing
the same.''

Ian Rankin OBE DL FRSE FRSL:

''I would have loved to have been a

rock n' roll star. But none of us
was musical, and none of us
had any instruments.''

Jim Rickards:

“The economies of the US and the EU are in, or very

near to, recession. Inflation is out of control in the

West and commodity shortages will lead quickly

to food shortages and more empty shelves in

supermarkets… as economic sanctions

have backfired - with protests turning

up at all spots in the global supply

chain - including railways,

trucking, warehouses,

and ports…”

US Senator Lindsey Graham:

"I like the path we are on. As long as we

help Ukraine with the weapons it needs

and economic support, it will fight to

the last man."

Jim Rickards:

“Almost everything you heard ---- about the

war in Ukraine from US media.. was a lie.”

Ex President of Ukraine Poroshenko

who signed the Minsk Agreements:

“When I was signing it, I never intended to implement

it. We just needed more time - to get more weapons

from the West - in order to enable us to resolve the

problem of the Ukrainian East by the use of force.”

Martin Jay:

"The once-golden relationship between the US

and the EU is also coming to an end. A game

of accusations will begin ---- which will be

carefully developed over several weeks

in the media. The West needs to get

out of the conflict in Ukraine and

it needs a good reason to

turn around."

What kids in the late 1940s used

to sing, on the May day marches:

''Go home yankee, yankee go home!

We don’t want you anymore.

For the way of life you sell

Doesn’t suit us very well

And it wasn’t Errol Flynn

that won the war!''

Rachel Marsden:

“The conflict in Ukraine, risks creating the ultimate

nightmare for Western elites: an alternative group

of allies, over which the West has no control, but

with the capacity to offer opportunities that are

competitive with what their own governments

or countries are offering… Western elites are

doubling down in Ukraine to save the world

order --- that protects their own selfish

interests --- thinking that it’s the way

to prevent... a parallel option from

emerging. It’s as simple as that.

And they don’t care, if it’s the

average citizen who has to

pay the price”.

Camilo José Cela:

''There are two kinds of man:

the ones who make history -

and the ones who endure it.''

Dmitry Medvedev:

“Washington - in tandem with London - conned the
Europeans like a couple of shell-game tricksters.”

Sergey Lavrov:

“The European economy is impacted -- more than

anything else. The stats show that 40 percent

of the damage caused by sanctions is borne

by the EU --- whereas the damage to the

United States is less than 1 percent.”

Kusumagraj:

"My love is deep and wide like that of the sky.

My only morality is to fight slavery.

I do not care for the restrictions of caste or creed.

I only know humanity and its service"

Richard Price:

''Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world! Take warning,
all ye supporters of slavish governments, and slavish

hierarchies! Call no more (absurdly and wickedly)

reformation, innovation. You cannot now hold

the world in darkness. Restore to mankind..
their rights; and consent to the correction
of abuses, before they and you are
destroyed together.“

Thomas Carlyle:

“Make yourself an honest man, and then

you may be sure that there is one less

scoundrel in the world.”

Eric Zuesse, on post-soviet US aims:

''President GHW Bush, secretly informed America’s
allies, starting on February 24th in 1990, “To hell

with that! We prevailed, they didn’t” ie, “they still

need to be totally and humiliatingly defeated

by us; they need to be conquered.” This ---

is the reality. No myth. America’s foreign

policies are laser-focused on crippling if

not destroying, all possible competitors.

Especially, all nations in Europe need

to know this, and to reverse course

because of it. Because --- if they

don’t, then Europe’s economies

will be crushed this coming

winter, in order to keep up

the US Government’s lies.

It is.. their choice. Either

continuing as American

vassal-nations, or else,

making a fundamental

turn, toward freedom

and justice.''

Martin Armstrong:

“There is no way they can get out of this, other than

by default. If they default, they are worried about

millions of people -- storming the parliaments of

Europe. This is really a tremendous financial

crisis that we are facing. They have been

borrowing year after year, since WWII ---

with zero intention of paying

anything back.”

Angelo Giliano, Financial & Political Analyst:

''What the collective West needs to take into account

now is ---- that they are not alone. They need to stop

their imperialist way of approaching how they see

the world. They tend to say the global world, but

when they say the global world, they only mean

maybe 15% of the population. But the problem

now is, that they don't have the weight they

used to have and they need to take into

account that you have an emergent

world and they are - we are -

living in the last days of

the imperialistic West.''

Cynthia Chung:

''Russia’s proclaimed support... in its letters to Lincoln,
would be put to the test - during the summer of 1863.
By then the South’s invasion of the North had failed
at Gettysburg and the violent anti-war New York
draft riots also failed, and Britain - as a result -
was thinking of a direct military intervention
--- with the backing of France.

''What would follow, marks one of the greatest displays
of support for another country’s sovereignty, to

ever occur in modern history. The Russian
Navy arrived on both the east and west
coastlines of the US in late September
and early October, in 1863.

''The timing was highly coordinated.... due to intelligence
reports of when Britain and France were intending their

military action. The Russian navy would stay along the
US coastline... in support of the Union, for 7 months!

They never intervened in the American civil war but
rather..... remained in its waters, at the behest of
Lincoln in case of a foreign power’s interference.

''If Russia had not done this, Britain and France would
most certainly, have intervened on the Confederate

states behalf -- as they made clear they would and
the US -- would have most certainly broken in two.
At that point it was Russia’s direct naval support
that allowed the US to remain whole.''

US ''Defense'' Secretary, Lloyd Austin:

“The range of HIMARS, our GMLRS round, is 80

kilometres and so that’s pretty good reach. It

has allowed and will continue to allow, to get

after those longer-range targets that they’ve

been unable to reach.”

Michael Hudson:

The philosophy of the IMF ever since world war II is

when third world countries can’t pay the debt, the

IMF comes in with an austerity program and says

you have to lower wages -- you have to break up

labour unions, if necessary you have to have a

democracy, and you can’t have a democracy

unless you’re willing to assassinate and

arrest the labour leaders and the

advocates of land redistribution

...because a democracy means

basically, rule by the financial