Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
About William Blum
William Henry Blumwas an American author and journalist and a critic of United States foreign policy.
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America’s state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that “treason” is morally worse than murder or rape.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists – whatever else they might be – might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.
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A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn’t have an air force.
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