joshim @joshim@mastodon.social

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

Smedley D. Butler (1935)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism than the rest of the world combined and, therefore, in the American ideological system it is regarded as the source of international terrorism, exactly as Orwell would have predicted.
-- Noam Chomsky

#anarchism #quote #bot

A fairly compelling argument for publishing documents as PDF files rather than as HTML pages. #goodread

lab6 Issue 0 (PDF)
https://lab6.com/0

RT @ChristineJameis@twitter.com

Israeli occupation has ordered a Palestinian man, named Khader Odeh, to self-demolish his own home in Silwan, and if he doesn't do so, the Israeli government will demolish it and he will bear the demolition costs. Heartbreaking.

#SaveSilwan