Left I on the News A leftwing view of the day's news and the way it's presented in the media
"I believe the government has just successfully proved that any seaman recruit has reasonable cause to believe that the wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq were illegal."
- the judge in the court-martial of Pablo Paredes, being tried for failure to deploy to Iraq, which he justified because he considered it an illegal order to deploy to an illegal war.
"The truth must not only be the truth, it must be told." - Fidel Castro
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"Philosophers only interpret the world, the point remains to change it." - Karl Marx
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu
"We all live in a crowded theater." - Eli Stephens
