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“One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America?’ And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s market place. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, ‘Who owns the oil?’ You begin to ask the question, ‘Who owns the iron ore?’ You begin to ask the question, ‘Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two thirds water?’ These are questions that must be asked.”Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”Walt Whitman
Tag Archives: Cuba
Quote of the Day: Michael Parenti on Cuba
“Cuba has… been condemned for not allowing its people to flee the island. That so many want to leave Cuba is treated as proof that Cuban socialism is a harshly repressive system, rather than that the U.S. embargo has made life difficult in Cuba. That so many millions more want to leave capitalist countries like Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, El Salvador, Philippines, South Korea, Macedonia, and others too numerous to list is never treated as grounds for questioning the free-market system … Continue reading
UN General Assembly Condemns US Embargo Against Cuba
Source: RT In a largely symbolic move, for the 20th year in a row, the UN General Assembly has voted to condemn the US embargo against Havana. The tally was 186-2 on Tuesday evening, the Associated Press said. The US was only supported by its ally, Israel, while the small Pacific nations of Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained, closely mirroring the voting result last year. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that the sanctions had caused direct economic … Continue reading
¡Viva la Revolución!
On this day in 1959 Fidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister of Cuba. He officially stepped down two years ago. My interest in Cuba began several years ago when I heard about a documentary called, “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.” It took several years before I finally managed to view the film, but it was worth the wait. You might be able to catch it sometime on LinkTV if you’re interested. What I learned from … Continue reading
American Media: Lies and Half Truths At Every Turn
I figured out a long time ago that the mainstream media in my country is little more than a tool of the powerful oligarchy that owns our government. It doesn’t matter if you watch FoxNews or spend your days listening to NPR and soaking up MSNBC the outcome is the same: you only get the news our rulers want us to get and only from the point(s) of view they want us to consider. For years we’ve all heard about … Continue reading
Talking Cuban Revolutionary Blues
While Americans are always the first to step up and throw money at disasters around the world, such as the recent tragic events in Japan, we are responsible for one of the longest running man-made disasters of the past fifty years – the trade embargo against Cuba. Here in the US we are led by our corporate controlled media and our capitalist owned government to believe that Cuba is a Stalinist police state, a place where democracy is denied and human … Continue reading →