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INTELLECTUALS' QUOTES ABOUT AMERICA and DUMB PROPAGANDIZED UNEDUCABLE AMERICAN PUBLIC =====================================================================
rCLNo matter how paranoid and conspiracy-minded you are, what the US government is actually doing is worse than you can imagine.rCY
William Blum
rCLAmericans are the best entertained and the least informed people in the world.rCY
-Neil Postman
rCLMedia manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all
the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.rCY
Mark Crispin Miller
rCLThe men American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try and tell
them the truth.rCY
-H.L. Mencken
rCLI know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind
and real freedom of discussion as in America.rCY
Alexis de Tocqueville
rCLThe corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the
wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity rCo much less dissent.rCY
Gore Vidal
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what
Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology. rCY
Michael Parenti
rCLOur rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are
never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done
to other people.rCY
Gore Vidal
rCLThe major function of secrecy in Washington is to keep the U.S. people rCafrom knowing what the nationrCOs leaders are doing. rCY
John Stockwell, former CIA official and author
"If they do it, itrCOs terrorism, if we do it, itrCOs fighting for freedom. rCY
A U.S. Ambassador in Central America in the 1980s, asked to explain how
such U.S. actions as the mining of NicaraguarCOs harbors and bombing of airports differed from the acts of terrorism that the U.S. condemned
around the world
Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely
to be displaced, tortured, killed or rCLdisappearedrCY, at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame.rCY
Amnesty International, in its annual report on U.S. military aid and
human rights
Look, if you think "any American official" is going to tell you the--- SBBSecho 3.06-Win32
truth, then yourCOre stupid. Did you hear that? rCo stupid.rCY
Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, 1965
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