"The news media claim to be providing context. But whose? Overall, the context of Uncle Sam in the more perverse and narcissistic aspects of his policy personality. The hypocrisies of claims about moral precepts and universal principles go beyond the mere insistence that some others “do as we say, not as we do.” What gets said, repeated and forgotten sets up kaleidoscope patterns that can be adjusted to serve the self-centered mega-institutions reliably fixated on maintaining their own dominance."

If [Robert] Fisk has doubts about the official narrative, as he claims to have, he must honestly follow them to their logical conclusions, even to the extent of abandoning his fallacious, though comforting, preconceptions.

"...Iraqi civilians keep dying from the U.S. war effort and other violence catalyzed by the occupation; meanwhile, of course, not a single concert or merry-go-round has stopped in the USA."

"Creating a regional security framework involving all of Iraq's neighbors and ceding political and eventual military control to the United Nations is way forward to national dialogue, and a way out of the current quagmire."

"The triumph of the warfare state degrades and suppresses us all. Even before the weapons perform as guaranteed."

Mexicans and Canadians do not want to be incorporated into the United States, and they are ambivalent about adopting the American dollar, but they are more willing to become part of a single country of North America and of a unified currency, like the “Amero..."

-- Robert Pastor

"...deadly avoidance comes when powerful news executives do the bidding of the Pentagon -- and then, later on, claim that they did nothing of the kind."

"Unless we disabuse ourselves of our fundamental conceit we cannot see that the U.S. has abandoned individual freedom, equality and the rule of law for concentration camps, genocide, enforced conformity, propaganda, hatred and intellectual censorship."