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"If the Scriptural truths didn’t suit this "manifest destiny’, then the religious elite simply "perverted", "corrupted", "lied", and "re-wrote" the suitable justifications for unending western crusades upon the hapless dark natives."

"Like it or not, the real struggle now being waged is not on the many battlefields of the Middle East but it is in the struggle over ideas that will shape the U.S. policy debate in the minds of the American people."

"In Brazil and the United States, or anywhere else, a free flow of information and opinion is not only worth fighting for -- it’s essential."

"The North American palace press is all too willing to parrot government propaganda, especially when it concerns Arabs."

"In due time the American people will come to understand the folly of such double standard, their complicity with their taxes and vetoes of Israel's flaunting of might upon millions of hapless civilians, their alienation from the rest of the world due to Israel's atrocities and the power of the elite Jewish lobby who've hijacked American values and civil liberties for the sake of Israel."

"Despite their relatively small populations these two states loom larger in presidential elections because the decision made by their voters will determine the direction of the entire contest."

:: Prepared text of speech at the Brazilian Social Forum, November 8, 2003 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil ::

"When a country — particularly “a democracy” — goes to war, the passive consent of the governed lubricates the machinery of slaughter. Silence is a key form of cooperation, but the war-making system does not insist on quietude or agreement. Mere passivity or self-restraint will suffice to keep the missiles flying, the bombs exploding and the faraway people dying."

"The point I’m making in this article is that there are MORE of us that are aware than our corporate owned media will tell us. The youth of this country is ALRIGHT, actually quite fabulous I may add."