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“The Golden Rule is to 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' Allegedly, America is a Christian country. This means that Christian America is following Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in a masochistic way.”
“The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.”
“When I met with Chinese policymakers in 2006, I advised them that there was a limit to how long they could rely on the U.S. consumer market, as jobs offshoring was destroying it.”
“Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.”
“The way to attack the entitlements problem is to bring the jobs home. This could be done by taxing corporations according to the location, domestic or foreign, at which they add value to their product.”
“Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away.”
“Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the consumer with the best products at the lowest prices.”
“If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson's books.”
“When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?”
“Everyone who ever trusted Washington has been betrayed. Possibly there is an exception somewhere, but the betrayals are vast and are sufficient in number to define Washington as the least trusted entity on the earth.”
“For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.”
“I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment.”
“The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.”
“I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.”
“The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks' uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly from the theft of their funds.”
“Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.”
“When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.”
“Representing the people is not something 'our' representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.”
“The Western media is a Ministry of Truth that operates full-time in support of the artificial existence that Westerners live inside The Matrix where Westerners exist without thought. Considering their inaptitude and inaction, Western peoples might as well not exist.”
“The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. 'Free trade' is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.”