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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/index.html THIRD WORLD TRAVELER: is an archive of articles and book excerpts that seek to tell the truth about American democracy, media, and foreign policy, and about the impact of the actions of the United States government, transnational corporations, global trade and financial institutions, and the corporate media, on democracy, social and economic justice, human rights, and war and peace, in the Third World, and in the developed world. THIRD WORLD TRAVELER also provides information and links to aid international travelers. Visitors are encouraged to buy the books and subscribe to the magazines, to ask their libraries to put them on the shelves and their bookstores to stock them, to visit the websites, and to tell others about the wealth of information that these independent news sources provide. For, without public awareness of and support for independent authors, publications, and websites, this much-needed information may not continue to be available. "Most Americans have no idea that what we are fed by the news media is nothing more than a portrayal of what powerful corporations want us to believe, that what happens to pass as education is as often as not mere propaganda, that what we learn in church may have very little or nothing to do with the truth, that what our parents teach us may be nothing more than an accumulation of their own personal biases, no doubt a rather subtle modification of what they were taught by their parents. And through such a process, governments and nations around the world wield control as to what their citizens, believe, value, and do." Doug Soderstrom Howard Zinn THIRD WORLD TRAVELER - SITE MAP "During the past two centuries when the peoples of the world were gradually winning their political freedom from the dynastic monarchies, the major banking families of Europe and America were actually reversing the trend by setting up new dynasties of political control through the formation of international financial combines. These banking dynasties had learned that all governments must have sources of revenue from which to borrow in times of emergency. They had also learned that by providing such funds from their own private resources, they could make both kings and democratic leaders tremendously subservient to their will." Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy and Hope" Noam Chomsky THIRD WORLD TRAVELER - SEARCH PAGE "The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim - nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements [BIS] in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations ... Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world." Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy and Hope" HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS Evelyn De Rothschild / Queen Elizabeth II / Henry Kissinger ---------- George H W Bush / David Rockefeller / Zbigniew Brzezinski RULING ELITES NEW WORLD ORDER ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT "People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations." Zbigniew Brzezinski QUOTATIONS TO MAKE US THINK The Thinker by Rodin a searchable database of quotations - excerpted from hundreds of books and thousands of articles - challenging conventional wisdom "There is a transnational ruling class, a "Superclass", that agrees on establishing a world government. The middle class is targeted for elimination, because most of the world has no middle class, and to fully integrate and internationalize a middle class, would require industrialization and development in Africa, and certain places in Asia and Latin America. The goal of the Superclass is not to lose their wealth and power to a transnational middle class, but rather to extinguish the notion of a middle class, and transnationalize a lower, uneducated, labor oriented class, through which they will secure ultimate wealth and power. The global economic crisis serves these ends, as whatever remaining wealth the middle class holds is in the process of being eliminated, and as the crisis progresses, the middle classes of the world will suffer, while a great percentage of lower classes of the world, poverty-stricken even prior to the crisis, will suffer the greatest, most probably leading to a massive reduction in population levels, particularly in the "underdeveloped" or "Third World" states." Andrew Gavin Marshall, 'The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century' REAL WORLD ORDER WHO RULES THE WORLD ? Ruling Elites > Financial Hegemony > One-World Government "Not all conspiracies are theories." "We are ruled, though it may be difficult to imagine, by a small dynastic power structure, largely consisting of powerful banking families, such as the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and others. They emerged in controlling the financial system, extended their influence over the political system, the educational system, and, through the major foundations, have become the dominant social powers of our world, creating think tanks and other institutions which shape and change the course of society and modern human history." Andrew Gavin Marshall John Perkins INTERNET NEWS & INFORMATION "A global financial cabal engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the US; and used 'privatization' as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder... Clearly, there was a global financial coup d'etat underway." Catherine Austin Fitts Jean-Bertrand Aristide HAITI PAGE DOCUMENTARIES, VIDEOS, & PHOTOS PAGE "When the full and true story of Jean-Bertrand Aristide is finally told, it will portray a noble and humble man who gave of himself honorably to serve the interests of all the people of Haiti. His only failure was his inability to overcome the brutal and corrupt power of the U.S. and its determination to see him fail. " Stephen Lendman MEDIA - MAIN PAGE Norman Solomon / Robert McChesney / John Stauber / Chris Hedges / John Pilger / Oliver Stone / Michael Moore "Some of the character traits exhibited by serial killers or criminals may be observed in many within the political arena. They share the traits of psychopaths who are not sensitive to altruistic appeals, such as sympathy for their victims or remorse or guilt over their crimes. They possess the personality traits of lying, narcissism, selfishness, and vanity. These are the people to whom we have entrusted our fate. Is it any wonder that America is failing at home and world-wide?" Jim Kouri BOOKS in the SPOTLIGHT Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf - Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network - Dean Henderson Treasure Islands - Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World - Nicholas Shaxson American Conspiracies - Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us - Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell JFK - The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy - L. Fletcher Prouty Gods of Money - Wall Street and the Death of the American Century - F. William Engdahl Tragedy & Hope - a history of the world in our time - Carroll Quigley America's Secret Establishment - An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones - Antony Sutton Committee of 300, The - the New World Order and the Conspirator's Hierarchy - John Coleman Power Elite, The - C. Wright Mills Naked Capitalist, The - W. Cleon Skousen Century of War, A - Anglo-American Oil Politics & New World Order - William Engdahl DOPE, INC. - the book that drove Henry Kissinger crazy - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - 1986 & 1992 Report from Iron Mountain On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace Iron Triangle, The - Carlyle Group - Dan Briody Trilateralism - the Trilateral Commission and World Management - Holly Sklar Powers That Be, The - G. William Domhoff Anglo-American Establishment, The - Carroll Quigley Shock Doctrine, The - the Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein Superclass - the Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making - David Rothkopf Web of Debt - The Shocking Truth About Our Money System - Ellen Hodgson Brown Bilderberg Group, The - Daniel Estulin Who Rules America Now? - G. William Domhoff Creature from Jekyll Island, The - the creation of the Federal Reserve - G. Edward Griffin "Even open-minded people will often find themselves unable to take seriously the likes of [Noam] Chomsky, [Edward] Herman, [Howard] Zinn and [Susan] George on first encountering their work; it just does not seem possible that we could be so mistaken in what we believe. The individual may assume that these writers must be somehow joking, wildly over-stating the case, paranoid, or have some sort of axe to grind. We may actually become angry with them for telling us these terrible things about our society and insist that this simply 'can't be true'. It takes real effort to keep reading, to resist the reassuring messages of the mass media and be prepared to consider the evidence again." David Edwards - Burning All Illusions BOOK EXCERPTS - SORTED ALPHABETICALLY BOOK EXCERPTS - SORTED BY SUBJECT Internet News and Information page Independent Press & Publishers pagePropaganda page Public relations watch Project Censored pageMedia Control pageBroadcast Media watch "What the press do is they tell you lies, lies they already know you want to hear. The press can figure out what its readers or viewers believe, and make a hell of a living pandering to their egos and telling them that they're smart. They lie and tell the audience they are right, and they never have to change your mind about anything. And the audience rewards them, lauding them and paying them money to keep hearing those sweet, self-serving lies." Allan Uthman Media pageMedia watchMedia Reform Print Media pageGlobal Media pageMedia & New World Order page Magazines pageProgressive Media Links Think Tank watchFreedom of Information Act - Help Center "More than fifty years ago the [J.P.] Morgan firm decided to infiltrate the Left-wing political movements in the United States. This was relatively easy to do, since these groups were starved for funds and eager for a voice to reach the people. Wall Street supplied both. The purpose was not to destroy ... or take over but was really threefold: (1) to keep informed about the thinking of Left-wing or liberal groups; (2) to provide them with a mouthpiece so that they could "blow off steam," and (3) to have a final veto on their publicity and possibly on their actions, if they ever went "radical". Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy and Hope" AUTHORS' PAGE William Blum / Pepe Escobar / Ellen Brown / Chalmers Johnson / Naomi Klein Michel Chossudovsky / Naomi Wolf / Michael Hudson / Arundhati Roy / James Petras F William Engdahl / Robert Fisk / Glenn Greenwald / Paul Craig Roberts / Michael Parenti "Since the anticommunism hysteria in the years following the Second World War, a bipartisan consensus has existed on foreign policy. Meaningful political discourse has been almost absent about foreign policy issues. So many foreign policy decisions have been placed beyond public scrutiny, that almost all of what passes as official information about foreign policy is manufactured by government agencies for its propaganda effect." Daniel Hellinger and Dennis R. Judd Brooks - The Democratic Facade CORPORATE MEDIA'S THREAT TO DEMOCRACY "CEOs of most of the world's largest corporations daily make decisions that destroy the lives of many other human beings. Only about 1 to 3 percent of us are sociopaths - people who don't have normal human feelings and can easily go to sleep at night after having done horrific things. And of that 1 percent of sociopaths, there's probably only a fraction of a percent with a college education. And of that tiny fraction, there's an even tinier fraction that understands how business works, particularly within any specific industry. Thus there is such a shortage of people who can run modern monopolistic, destructive corporations that stockholders have to pay millions to get them to work. And being sociopaths, they gladly take the money without any thought to its social consequences." Thom Hartman U.S. FOREIGN POLICY - MAIN PAGE Hugo Chavez-Venezuela / Evo Morales-Bolivia / Rafael Correa-Ecuador / Jean Bertrand Aristide-Haiti Video: Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country! "The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. And it's the responsible men who have to make decisions and to protect society from the trampling and rage of the bewildered herd. Now since it's a democracy they - the herd, that is - are permitted occasionally to lend their weight to one or another member of the responsible class. That's called an election." Noam Chomsky September 11, 2001, NYCConspiracy Theories or 'Real' World Order? One World Governmnt pageGlobal Secrets & LiesFriendly dictators page Pentagon watchDictators pageForeign policy watch Middle East watchIsrael watchIraq pageAfghanistan page "There is nothing puzzling about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope." Walter Karp Africa watchCentral Africa page Congo watchEast Africa page North Africa pageSouthern Africa pageWest Africa pageLatin America watch Caribbean watchHaiti pageColombia page Cuba pageCentral America watch "The modern pantheon of enemies are the banking consortium; the global Elite born and bred from mega-wealth; the academics and economists who disconnect ideas from reality; and the scientific and military minds who are so compartmentalized by design that they rarely know what sort of dictatorship to which they are making their contributions." Michael Edwards Venezuela pageSouth America watchMexico watch Ecuador watchBolivia watch Canada pageEurope watchYugoslavia pageRussia watchPacific watchIslands watch Central Asia watchAsia watchSoutheast Asia pageChina watchSouth Asia page Burma watchNepal page "The theories offered by economists rationalize the self-interest of big business and the wealthy. Such theories claim to benefit society and the public's well-being. But they do just the opposite: they make the great mass of people poorer while making the rich fabulously richer." economist Ravi Batra International Campaign to Ban Landmines Landmine Monitor Report - 2008 School of the Americas watchTorture watchAmerican Empire pageNATO page Landmine watchMilitarization of Space pageUnited States & Third World page War on Drugs pageCoup d'etat pageSubverting Democracy page War and Peace page "The New York Times is the house organ of the Establishment. It is committed, both editorially and in its presentation of the news, to the interests of an Establishment: continuity, security and legitimacy. Therefore they generally support business and finance, the American version of empire, the government and the president, until, and unless, some excess is so egregious that it poses a threat to continuity, security or legitimacy." Larry Beinhart Demanding Democracy pageWeapons pageForeign Policy Institutions pageAssassinations page International War Crimes pageTerrorism watchWar on Terrorism page War Profiteering pageMilitary-Industrial Complex pageReducing U.S. Military Budget page Toward an Ethical Foreign Policy "The main [media] bias is in favor of the thieves who stole our country and economy, and own the mainstream media companies. The omnipresent mainstream media is the greatest weapon of oppression humanity has ever known." David DeGraw MILITARIZATION OF AMERICA "The Depression [1929] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here [United States] so that they might emerge as rulers of us all." Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Banking and Currency Committee, 1932 FRIENDLY DICTATORS Augusto Pinochet - Chile / "Papa Doc" Duvalier - Haiti / Efrain Rios Montt - Guatemala / Park Chung-hee - South Korea / King Fahd - Saudi Arabia P W Botha - South Africa / Sani Abacha - Nigeria / Rafael Trujillos - Dominican Republic / General Suharto - Indonesia / Fulgencio Batista - Cuba Shah Pahlevi - Iran / Mobuto Sese Seko - Zaire / Ferdinand Marcos - Philippines / Anastasio Somoza - Nicaragua King Hassan II - Morocco / Pol Pot - Cambodia / Hosni Mubarak - Egypt / Saddam Hussein - Iraq "I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for Capitalism... The general public shoulders the bill. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones, Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, 1935 INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - MAIN PAGE UNITED STATES INTERVENTIONS SINCE 1945: MILITARY INTERVENTIONS, COVERT OPERATIONS, COUPS AND ATTEMPTED COUPS, ELECTION INTERFERENCE, REGIME CHANGE, COLOR REVOLUTIONS Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan), Philippines, South Korea, Lebanon, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, Congo/Zaire, Brazil, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Chile, Angola, East TImor, Nicaragua, Grenada, Panama, Kyrgyzstan, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Georgia, Ukraine, Argentina, Ghana, Venezuela, Bolivia, Hondoras, Paraguay, Mexico, El Salvador, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, Tunesia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Russia "If Nuremberg were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." Noam Chomsky Jimmy Carter / Ronald Reagan / George H W Bush / Bill Clinton / George W Bush / Dick Cheney / Barack Obama Harry Truman / Dwight Eisenhower / John Kennedy / Lyndon Johnson / Gerald Ford / Richard Nixon John Foster Dulles / Henry Kissinger / Zbigniew Brezezinski / Madeleine Albright / Colin Powell / Condeleeza Rice / Hillary Clinton "Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser." William Blum The Trials of Henry Kissinger - video International Criminal Court pageInternational Law pageLandmines page Henry Kissinger pageTruth Commissions page Bush Gang pageGeorge W. Bush pageThe Carlyle Group "We are going to have a war on terror which you can never win, and so you can always keep taking people's liberties away. The media is going to convince everybody that the war on terror is real. The ultimate goal is to get everybody in the world chipped with an RFID chip, and have all money be on the chips, and if anyone wants to protest what we do, we turn off the chip." Nicholas Rockefeller to producer Aaron Russo - eleven months before the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks Human Rights watch pageGenocide watch Ronald Reagan pageCrime and Punishment pageAriel Sharon page The Crimes of Augusto Pinochet pageSchool of the Americas page "Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds." Randall Robinson Conspiracy Theories or 'Real' World Order? "There is a 'Committee of 300', men whose identity is known only to each other, who rule the world." German Socialist leader Walter Rathenau, 1922 Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice "The Bilderberg group is an organization of political leaders and international financiers that meets secretly every spring to make global policy. There are about 110 regulars - Rockefellers, Rothschilds, bankers, heads of international corporations and high government officials from Europe and North America. Each year, a few new people are invited and, if found useful, they return to future meetings. If not, they are discarded. Decisions reached at these secret meetings affect every American and much of the world." Jim Tucker's Bilderberg Diary David Rockefeller NEW WORLD ORDER "Since the late 1940s, the United States has been deliberately engaged in an imperial project, and anyone who would hold the office of the presidency has to be willing to serve that end. All presidents have to promote the national security state, both domestically and in American foreign policy, if they wish to attain and hold on to power." Morris Berman INDEPENDENT MEDIA I.F. Stone / George Seldes / George Orwell "Ever since the days of Henry Ford, the Economic Elite have needed a thriving US middle class to increase growth and profits, but now, in the global economy, they view the US middle class as obsolete. They increasingly look globally for profits and they would rather pay cheap labor in countries like China and India." David DeGraw Ray McGovern COVERT ACTIVITIES - MAIN PAGE CIA watchFBI watchNational Security Agency (NSA) watchGlobal Secrets & Lies page National Endowment for Democracy (NED) pageThe Secret Wars of the CIA - John Stockwell CIAs Greatest Hits pageTerrorism watch U.S. Terrorism Timeline - 1692 (Salem Witch Trials) to 2005 (U.S. Global Mercenaries) "The greatest myth concerning American foreign policies is the deeply-held belief that no matter what the United States does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the American government means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may even on the odd occasion cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable. Of that Americans are certain. They genuinely wonder why the rest of the world can't see how kind and generous and self-sacrificing America has been." William Blum Bradley Manning PROGRESSIVE WEBSITES "American policymakers, setting themselves up as guardians of the world system, are more inclined than ever to simply disregard international laws and conventions if they get in the way of unrivaled military supremacy. Every instance of U.S. armed intervention during the 1980s and 1990s represents a flagrant violation of regional treaties and laws, not to mention the UN Charter itself, which explicitly prohibits military attacks against sovereign nations - for example, Grenada, Nicaragua, Haiti, Panama, Serbia, and Iraq. In any event, the U.S. has consistently shown its contempt for international bodies, agreements, and procedures that might conflict with its hegemonic aspirations." Carl Boggs TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS - MAIN PAGE NAFTA, FTAA, CAFTA pageMultilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI) page World Trade Organization (WTO) pageInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank page Structural Adjustment pageOil watchWater pageDiamonds page "Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for. " Brian Reade, columnist for London Mirror newspaper Transnational corporations & Third World pageNew Global Economy pageCorporate watch Controlling Corporations pageGlobalization watchCorporate Welfare page "The media are a pitiful lot. They don't give us any history, they don't give us any analysis, they don't tell us anything. They don't raise the most basic questions: Who has the most weapons of mass destruction in the world by far? Who has used weapons of mass destruction more than any other nation? Who has killed more people in this world with weapons of mass destruction than any other nation? The answer: the United States." Howard Zinn Martin Luther King. Jr. QUOTATIONS PAGE "We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth." Sydney Schanberg DEMOCRACY & SOCIETY - MAIN PAGE Eugene Debs / Sen Robert La Follette / Sen F William Fulbright / Justice William O Douglas Sen George McGovern / Rep Dennis Kucinich / Sen Bernie Sanders / Sen Russ Feingold / Sen Paul Wellstone Democracy in America pageFascism watchPatriotism pagePolitical Pathocracy page Labor pageClass War watchRuling Elites pageDemocracy watchSociety watchNeoconservatives page Civil Liberties watchMilitarization of America pageDemanding Democracy pageSocialism watch Heroes pageZeroes pageDissent page "[I] never saw a foreign intervention that the [New York] Times did not support, never saw a fare increase or a rent increase or a utility rate increase that it did not endorse, never saw it take the side of labor in a strike or lockout, or advocate a raise for underpaid workers. And don't let me get started on universal health care and Social Security. So why do people think the Times is liberal?" veteran New York Times reporter John Hess Banks watchFederal Reserve pageWall Street pageEconomics watchHistory watchThink Tank watch Nationalism pageHealth watchReligion pageReforming the Electoral Process pageWater pageFood watchEducation watch Real Democracy pageNational Security pageAssassinations pageNeoliberal Economics pageEnvironment watch "If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation." Eugene Debs Politics watchPolitical Repression pageProgressive Politics watchPoliticians' page Political Crimes and Criminals pagePolitical Corruption pagePolitical Reform page American Fundamentalism pageRe-ordering America's Priorities Heroes pageZeroes pageEnergy watchYouth & Children watchWomen watch Socialism watchPolice State watchMilitary-Industrial Complex page "Thirdworldization" of America "The question is not how to get good people to rule; the question is how to stop the powerful from doing as much damage as they can to us." Karl Popper Henry Ford / Pat Robertson, / Joseph McCarthy / James Dobson / William Randolph Hearst George W Bush / Dick Cheney FASCISM - AMERICAN-STYLE The 14 characteristics of Fascism "The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters." Paul Craig Roberts Nelson Mandela Vandana Shiva THIRD WORLD - DEFINITION & DESCRIPTION "Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East." F. William Engdahl Cesar Chavez HUMAN RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY DOCUMENTS "Americans are too broadly underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world . Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations. Politicians and the media have conspired to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At heart, politicians don't believe that Americans can handle complex truths, and the news media, especially television news, basically agrees." Tom Fenton, former CBS foreign correspondent Jean-Bertrand Aristide HAITI PAGE "War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder." Alexander Berkman CONGO PAGE "Africa is extremely rich in many resources, from agriculture to oil, minerals, and a huge variety of other resources used all around the world. If African nations were able to develop their own economies, use their own resources, and create their own industries and businesses, they could become self-sufficient at first, and then may become a force of great competition for the established industries and elites around the world. After all, Europe does not have much to offer in terms of resources, as the continent's wealth has largely come from plundering the resources of regions like Africa, and in becoming captains of monetary manipulation. A revitalized, vibrant, economically independent and successful Africa could spell the end of Western financial dominance. " Andrew Gavin Marshall Archbishop Oscar Romero - El Salvador HUMAN RIGHTS - MAIN PAGE "Every time weaker nations have attempted to reallocate their resources and undertake land reform to feed starving populations, powerful interests emanating from the rich world and its multilateral bodies have thwarted their efforts." Susan George Human Rights Documents pagePrison watch Life & death in Third World pageHeroes pageZeroes pageHuman rights watch Genocide watchJustice watchReforming the System page United Nations pageThird World in United States pageWorld Federalism page "Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own." William Greider THIRDWORLDIZATION OF AMERICA "The problem is not that a computer network [Internet] offers an alternative to the information aristocracy. The true crisis is that neither the news media nor the government has enough credibility to be accepted as either truthful or impartial on their own." military writer William M. Arkin "WHY DO THEY HATE US ?" [Ariel Sharon - Israel / King Fahd - Saudi Arabia / Shah Pahlevi - Iran / Saddam Hussain - Iraq] "The United States became the target of terrorists on 9/11 not because of the country's freedom and democracy, but because U.S. Middle East policy has had nothing to do with freedom and democracy." Stephen Zunes WHAT YOU CAN DO - MAIN PAGE Andrew Gavin Marshall / Sibel Edmonds / Ralph Nader / David Swanson / David DeGraw "The need for major states as enemies stems partly from the fact that only the perceived presence of enemy states can justify military spending at the level which the industries concerned have come to demand." David Edwards - Burning All Illusions What Can I Do? Kiva - loans that change lives in third worldDoctors Without Borders The Fistula FoundationHimalayan Cataract Project Nepalese Youth FoundationGoodWeave - child-labor-free rugs from third world Partners in Health - health care in Haiti & third worldHaitian Relief Organization Coalition to Ban Cluster Bombs International Campaign to Ban Landmines AFESIP Cambodia - combating sex slavery Prajwala - fighting sex trafficking in India Global Response - environmental and education network Unitarian Universalists - stop tortureSave the CongoOxfam America Global Witness - end natural resource corruption "All societies we know of are governed by the selfish interests of the ruling class or classes." Plato Become informed - authors page Become informed - excerpted books sorted alphabetically Become informed - excerpted books sorted by subject Progressive websites TRAVEL WEATHER "To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them." Michael Parenti TRAVEL HEALTH "States, most especially the large hegemonic ones, such as the United States and Great Britain, are controlled by the international central banking system, working through secret agreements at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and operating through national central banks (such as the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve)... The same international banking cartel that controls the United States today previously controlled Great Britain and held it up as the international hegemon. When the British order faded, and was replaced by the United States, the US ran the global economy. However, the same interests are served. States will be used and discarded at will by the international banking cartel; they are simply tools." Andrew Gavin Marshall TRAVEL LINKS "The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) took control of the ideological foundations of the American empire, encompassing the corporate, banking, political, foreign policy, military, media, and academic elite of the nation into a generally cohesive overall world view. By altering one's ideology to that of promoting such an internationalist agenda, the big money that was behind it would ensure one's rise through government, industry, academia and media. There are divisions within the elite, predicated on the basis of how to use American imperial power, where to use it, on what basis to justify it, and other various methodological differences. The divide amongst elites was never on the questions of: should we use American imperial power, why has America become an Empire, or should there even be an empire? If one takes such considerations to heart and questions these concepts, be it within the foreign policy establishment, intelligence, military, academia, finance, corporate world, or media; chances are, such a person is not a member of the CFR." Andrew Gavin Marshall TRAVEL INFORMATION "So important did military spending and the military-industrial sector become during World War II and the Cold War that they have become fundamental to the U.S. economy, U.S. economic growth and above all U.S. technological development. Despite its often almost incredible wastefulness and corruption, this military spending has also been in some ways a kind of unacknowledged but rather successful state industrial development strategy in a country whose free market ideology meant that it could not formally adopt or admit to such a strategy." David Edwards - Burning All Illusions THIRD WORLD TRAVEL Email: infotwt@thirdworldtraveler.com "Patriotism has got to be more than hanging out a flag and then sitting on your ass watching jets bomb Afghanistan." Ruth Coniff "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." neoconservative Michael Ledeen ("Fair Use" Notice: Third World Traveler contains copyrighted material whose use has not been authorized by the copyright owners. I believe that this not-for-profit, educational use on the Web constitutes a "fair use" of the copyrighted material (as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law). If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes that go beyond "fair use", you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. 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