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“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold….” - Thomas Jefferson “We are already in the midst of a catastrophe… Israel is using famine as a weapon of war and that is contrary to international law.” - Josep Borrell “It is not possible to create a famine by accident.” - Alex de Waal “Israel made its intentions to starve everyone in Gaza explicit, implemented its plans and predictably created a famine throughout Gaza.” - Michael Fakhri “The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians…

“The future of warfare is not boots on the ground, but bytes in the sky.” - P.W. Singer “Technology is teaching us that war no longer needs human closeness to kill, only human intent.” - Chris Hedges “What makes drone warfare so psychologically destabilizing is the fusion of omnipresence with invisibility.” - Laurie Calhoun “The terrifying thing about drones is not just what they destroy, but what they reveal about our moral distance from violence.” - Noam Chomsky “With drones, we have outsourced the cost of war to machines, but the human consequences remain as raw and brutal as ever.” -…

"You can’t drive a knife into a man’s back nine inches, pull it out six inches, and call it progress." - Malcolm X "Facts do not at all speak for themselves, but require a socially acceptable narrative to absorb, sustain, and circulate them." - Edward Said "There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard." - Arundhati Roy "Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world." - Angela Y. Davis "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." - Nelson Mandela "It is a terrible, an…

"The United States is now governed by the least responsible, most corrupt, and most dangerous leadership in its history." - Jeffrey Sachs "The truth is that the Congress in Washington is a bunch of millionaires working for billionaires. They don't represent the people, they represent the money." - Chris Hedges "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies... a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "The American political system has been corrupted to the core. Campaign finance is…

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela “Investing in education is not just the right choice, it is the smart choice, nations that prioritize learning build the strongest and most adaptable economies.” - Justin Trudeau “Ignorance is not a virtue. It's not cool to not know what you're talking about.” - Barack Obama “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.” - Martin Luther King Jr. “Canada’s success doesn’t rest in oil or…

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion." - Dale Carnegie "Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." - Mahatma Gandhi "You can’t always control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond." - Epictetus "Emotional self-control, delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness, underlies accomplishment of every sort." - Daniel Goleman People are drawn into emotional territory by conflict, where they frequently say things before they've been carefully considered. It's simple to…

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu "The Palestinians are treated as human refuse. This is not a war. It is state-sponsored mass murder." - Chris Hedges "When Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums, that is not a war. That is murder." - Noam Chomsky "In Canada, we are strong not in spite of our differences but because of them. We will always stand up for the rights and freedoms of all Canadians." - Justin Trudeau Gaza…

Examine closely the deep disappointment and hostility expressed by U.S. President Donald Trump in response to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recognition of a Palestinian two-state solution. Trump’s reaction, particularly his dictatorial threat to withhold any future trade deal with Canada, reveals the extent of his rigid stance on total unconditional support for Israel, even when blatant starvation and genocide is committed against the Palestinians. Trump has demonstrated a profound animosity toward the Palestinian people of Gaza. This remains true even in the face of overwhelming…

“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.” - George Orwell "Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?" - Steve Jobs "A narcissist paints a picture of themselves as being the victim or innocent in all aspects. They will go to great lengths to make you believe it..." - Shannon L. Alder “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.” - Will Rogers "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." - Jonathan Swift In a plot twist no one asked for, political observers are scratching their heads…

"The decision to sabotage the pipelines was made by the President himself after months of secret back-and-forth debate inside Washington’s national security community." - Seymour Hersh "A Europe that is truly united and effectively aligned with the United States in a larger democratic West would be an even more vital partner to America." - Zbigniew Brzezinski "The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars... is the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united they are the only force that could threaten us." - George Friedman "Control…

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” - Noam Chomsky “When the rich rob the poor it’s called business. When the poor fight back it’s called violence.” - Mark Twain “All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.” - I. F. Stone “If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” - Philip K. Dick “Politics have no relation to morals.” - Niccolò Machiavelli “It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.” - Niccolò Machiavelli “The promise…

“The streets were not just a world of predators and prey, they were a world of menaced children fighting to be grown. The fear was there because it had to be. It was the price of the ticket.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates “We come from a people who knew the meaning of family, of connection, of love. And when the world tried to break that apart, we held on to each other.” - Richard Wagamese “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me... that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected…

“Trump has built his political career on scapegoating immigrants and minorities, while handing the keys of the economy to the richest Americans and the biggest corporations.” - Robert Reich “Trump offers people a reality show instead of reality, and blames the weak instead of challenging the powerful. It’s classic shock doctrine use chaos to distract while the rich cash in.” - Naomi Klein “Economic inequality has exploded in recent decades... populist leaders like Trump exploit this by blaming globalization or immigrants, instead of the fiscal and political decisions that caused it.” -…

“He governs not with laws but with threats, not with transparency but with secrets and this is how personal rule replaces constitutional rule.” - Jeffrey Toobin “Abuse of power becomes normalized when leaders erase the line between self-interest and national interest and Trump has made that erasure his brand.” - Anne Applebaum “Trump doesn’t see the presidency as a public trust but as a private inheritance something to be weaponized against critics and wielded for personal benefit.” - Masha Gessen “When loyalty to an individual replaces loyalty to the Constitution, the erosion of…

"End Times fascism is not about building something new or better. It is a politics of abandonment. Collapse isn’t feared—it’s welcomed, even weaponized, as a way to clear the field." - Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor "Modern authoritarianism isn’t just about crushing dissent—it’s about cultivating resentment, glorifying violence, and distracting the public with enemies, both real and imagined. It thrives not on hope, but on grievance." - Robert Reich "Fascist movements build their mass base not among the politically active but among the politically indifferent—the people who feel…