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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The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.William Blum
On the one hand, I have nothing but distaste for any kind of religious fundamentalism and the societies spawned by that kind of fundamentalism.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
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He made a mistake, he got them mixed up.
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I think bin Laden shares that view, and that is why I'm not repulsed by his embrace of my book, because that is one of my major themes.
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