Julian Assange
(Source: Guardian)
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Posts tagged "politics"
In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US supreme court said “only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government”. The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
While MasterCard and Visa have cut WikiLeaks off you can still use those cards to donate to overtly racist organisations such as the Knights Party, which is supported by the Ku Klux Klan.
(Source: Guardian)
When you look at the sheer volume of wealth controlled by the top 1 percent in this country, it’s tempting to see our growing inequality as a quintessentially American achievement—we started way behind the pack, but now we’re doing inequality on a world-class level.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
(Source: vanityfair.com)
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
Amartya Sen on desire
“In fact, desiring plays a strategic role in making our wants credible and our aspirations viable. The importance of this aspect of the activity of desiring comes out sharply when interpersonal comparisons of desires are considered. It is not only that a poor person can offer less money for what he or she desires compared with a rich person, but also that even the strength of the mental force of desiring is influenced by the contingency of circumstances. The defeated and the downtrodden come to lack the courage to desire things that others more favourably treated by society desire with easy confidence. The absence of desire for things beyond one’s means may not reflect any deficiency of valuing, but only an absence of hope, and a fear of inevitable disappointment.”—
Amartya Sen
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