Quotations

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”  Arthur Schopenhauer

"I have always felt a certain horror of political economists since I heard one of them say that the Famine in Ireland would not kill more than a million people, and that would scarcely be enough to do much good." Benjamin Jowett

“Till recently it was thought proper to pretend that all human beings are very much alike, but in fact anyone able to use his eyes knows that the average of human behaviour differs enormously from country to country.” George Orwell

"It’s still very striking that the Church of England had more to say about Brexit and the Rwanda plan than decriminalising abortion up until birth and assisted dying." Chris Rose

"Now, splendidly, everything had become clear. The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms." Men at Arms, Evelyn Waugh

"Innocence at 40 is not a virtue. It's stupidity." A critic writing about Guy Crouchback in Men at Arms

"Russians are not my enemy
Chinese are not my enemy
Yemenis are not my enemy
Iranians are not my enemy
Palestinians are not my enemy.

Keir Starmer is my enemy."

Craig Murray 

Lily Lynch

@lilyslynch

Perfectly encapsulates Mark Rutte's role and this summit more generally

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

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Jun 22

Iran just became the 8th Muslim-majority country that the US has bombed in the last 15 years, from Obama to Trump to Biden to Trump: 1) Afghanistan 2) Iraq 3) Syria 4) Libya 5) Somalia 6) Pakistan 7) Yemen 8) Iran #WhyDoTheyHateUs?

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

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Jun 20

When Bush/Cheney wanted to spread lies of Saddam's WMDs, it required a complex 9-month PR campaign uniting media, government and neocon think tanks. This time, the US Govt uttered: "Iran was about to get nukes!" and huge numbers just mindlessly nodded, despite DNI's denials:

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Saagar Enjeti

@esaagar

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Jun 20

NEW: a senior US intelligence official tells me that there is ZERO independent US intelligence to backup CIA director John Ratcliffes pronouncement that Iran is “at the one yard line” of a nuclear weapon