“ It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. ”
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
~ Tariq Ali
That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.
Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.
The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.
