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The relationship between those who are constantly watched and tracked and those who watch and track them is the relationship between masters and slaves.
Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion (2014)
To be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state.
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning ISBN 1586480499 (2002)
The buildout of data centers is one essential part of the effort to construct a totalitarian capitalist society, which is already advancing.
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
What we are seeing now in America is about so much more than people just being sick of the police murdering innocent people. It is a generational and class revolt.
The press is owned by an oligarchic corporate elite which makes sure that any critique of them is never broadcast over the airwaves.
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning ISBN 1586480499 (2002)
The liberal class has retreated into boutique activism where issues of class, capitalism and militarism are jettisoned for “cancel culture,” multiculturalism and identity politics.
Brace yourself. The American empire is over. And the descent is going to be horrifying.
Israel is not exercising “the right to defend itself” in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder, aided and abetted by the U.S.
Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an instrument of control and barbarism is triumphant.
We are captive to systems of power until we can name the dominant myths and the intricate systems of coercion and control that extinguish our freedom.
An omnipresent surveillance state ... makes democratic dissent impossible. Any state that has the ability to inflict full spectrum dominance on its citizens is not a free state.
Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion (2014)
This deadly impasse, the tightening of the corporate totalitarian noose, would have continued if Snowden had not jolted the nation awake by disclosing the massive crimes of the prerogative state.
Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion (2014)
Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.
The Death of the Liberal Class (2010)
When you spend that long on the outer reaches of empire, you understand the cruelty of empire ... and the lies we tell ourselves about what is done in our name.
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.
We myopically serve the rapacious appetites of those dedicated to exploitation and maximizing profit. And our corporate masters view prisons — as they do education, health care and war — as a business.
We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.