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A bird's eye view of the vineyard
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew (10:26) and Saint John (8:32)
Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety. His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.
Holy Prophet and King David (Psalm 145:3-4 according to the LXX)
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
Arundhati Roy
Thou shalt not be a victim.
Thou shalt not be a perpetrator.
And above all,
Thou shalt not be a bystander
Yehuda Bauer
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against itHenry George
In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary actGeorge Orwell
Each small candle lights a corner of the darkRoger Waters
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.Mahatma Gandhi
I am for truth, no matter who tells it.
Malcolm X
Lowkey
I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win.
Richard Stallman
3 comments:
There's a lot of lying about Iran in the media. Even publications like The NewYorker regularly throw in gratuitous claims about how Ahmadinejad vows to wipe Israel off the map. Nowhere in the msm will you hear that the NNPT guarantees Iran the right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Nor is it clear that their facillities are safeguarded by IAEA inspectors who are on site and can detect enrichment beyond the 5% level needed for nuclear power. Also, it is commonplace to hear of the 'discovery' of a secret facility in Natanz as if the construction of this facility violated the NNPT;it didn't.
-AA
I've been long convinced that the super hyped lies against Iran has a lot to do with what Chomsky called the threat of a good example... Iran's significant advances since the Islamic Revolution remains a threat to US dominance in the region - because while the US has its puppets in place, large sections of the Muslim majority countries end up looking towards Iran.
This poses a direct threat to the US, who would want to keep the countries and the region under its thumb --- no matter what it costs in terms of human lives.
@altaf:
Have to disagree with you here. The Israelis are the principal actors behind pushing America to war. A modernized technologically sophisticated Iran is not a threat to America but to Israel. America is Israel's puppet.
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