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THIRD WORLD TRAVELER is an archive of articles and book excerpts that seek to tell the truth about American democracy, media, and foreign policy, and about the impact of the actions of the United States government, central banks, global financial and trade institutions, transnational corporations and the corporate media, on democracy, social and economic justice, human rights, and war and peace, in the Third World, and in the developed world. THIRD WORLD TRAVELER also provides information and links to aid international travelers. Visitors are encouraged to buy the books and subscribe to the magazines, to ask their libraries to put them on the shelves and their bookstores to stock them, to visit the websites, and to tell others about the wealth of information that these independent news sources provide. For, without public awareness of and support for independent authors, publications, and websites, this much-needed information may not continue to be available. "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, unless your own reason and your own common sense agree." Gautama Buddha (the quotation is a paraphrase of the original) "To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them." Michael Parenti Daniel Ellsberg / Philip Agee / John Stockwell / Ray McGovern / Gary Webb / Julian Assange William Binney / Russell Tice / Thomas Drake / Sibel Edmonds / Bradley Manning / Edward Snowdon / Jeremy Hammond John Kiriakou / Coleen Rowley / Karen Kwiatkowski / Wendell Potter / Jesselyn Radack / Mark Klein "The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." H. L. Mencken "Our real heroes are those who have tried to tell us the truth." Robert Fearn "We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth." Sydney Schanberg "The master planners devised the strategy of a merger - a Great Merger - among nations. But before such a merger can be consummated, and the United States becomes just another province in a New World Order, there must at least be the semblance of parity among the senior partners in the deal. How does one make the nations of the world more nearly equal? The Insiders determined that a two-prong approach was needed; use American money and know-how to build up your competitors, while at the same time use every devious strategy you can devise to weaken and impoverish this country. The goal is not to bankrupt the United States. Rather, it is to reduce our productive might, and therefore our standard of living, to the meager subsistence level of the socialized nations of the world. The plan is not to bring the standard of living in less developed countries up to our level, but to bring ours down to meet theirs coming up... It is your standard of living which must be sacrificed on the altar of the New World Order." Gary Allen in his book "The Rockefeller File" Aung San Suu Kyi THIRD WORLD TRAVELER - SITE MAP "During the past two centuries when the peoples of the world were gradually winning their political freedom from the dynastic monarchies, the major banking families of Europe and America were actually reversing the trend by setting up new dynasties of political control through the formation of international financial combines. These banking dynasties had learned that all governments must have sources of revenue from which to borrow in times of emergency. They had also learned that by providing such funds from their own private resources, they could make both kings and democratic leaders tremendously subservient to their will." Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy and Hope" "What the press do is they tell you lies, lies they already know you want to hear. The press can figure out what its readers or viewers believe, and make a hell of a living pandering to their egos and telling them that they're smart. They lie and tell the audience they are right, and they never have to change your mind about anything. And the audience rewards them, lauding them and paying them money to keep hearing those sweet, self-serving lies." Allan Uthman Noam Chomsky THIRD WORLD TRAVELER - SEARCH PAGE "There is a transnational ruling class, a "Superclass", that agrees on establishing a world government. The middle class is targeted for elimination, because most of the world has no middle class, and to fully integrate and internationalize a middle class, would require industrialization and development in Africa, and certain places in Asia and Latin America. The goal of the Superclass is not to lose their wealth and power to a transnational middle class, but rather to extinguish the notion of a middle class, and transnationalize a lower, uneducated, labor oriented class, through which they will secure ultimate wealth and power. The global economic crisis serves these ends, as whatever remaining wealth the middle class holds is in the process of being eliminated, and as the crisis progresses, the middle classes of the world will suffer, while a great percentage of lower classes of the world, poverty-stricken even prior to the crisis, will suffer the greatest, most probably leading to a massive reduction in population levels, particularly in the "underdeveloped" or "Third World" states." Andrew Gavin Marshall BEYOND THE MEDIA MATRIX BREAKING THROUGH THE MATRIX OF THE CORPORATE MEDIA TO REVEAL THE WORLD AS IT REALLY IS "Today Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." Henry Kissinger speaking at the annual Bilderberger meeting, May 21, 1992 "Ever since the days of Henry Ford, the Economic Elite have needed a thriving US middle class to increase growth and profits, but now, in the global economy, they view the US middle class as obsolete. They increasingly look globally for profits and they would rather pay cheap labor in countries like China and India." David DeGraw REAL WORLD ORDER WHO RULES THE WORLD ? "Not all conspiracies are theories." "People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations." Zbigniew Brzezinski "Some believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." David Rockefeller in his "Memoirs" HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS The Pope / Evelyn De Rothschild / Queen Elizabeth II / David Rockefeller RULING ELITES NEW WORLD ORDER ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT "We are ruled, though it may be difficult to imagine, by a small dynastic power structure, largely consisting of powerful banking families, such as the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and others. They emerged in controlling the financial system, extended their influence over the political system, the educational system, and, through the major foundations, have become the dominant social powers of our world, creating think tanks and other institutions which shape and change the course of society and modern human history." Andrew Gavin Marshall "The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. And it's the responsible men who have to make decisions and to protect society from the trampling and rage of the bewildered herd. Now since it's a democracy they - the herd, that is - are permitted occasionally to lend their weight to one or another member of the responsible class. That's called an election." Noam Chomsky QUOTATIONS TO MAKE US THINK The Thinker by Rodin a searchable database of quotations - excerpted from hundreds of books and thousands of articles - challenging conventional wisdom "The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim - nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements [BIS] in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations ... Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world." Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy and Hope" "The media are a pitiful lot. They don't give us any history, they don't give us any analysis, they don't tell us anything. They don't raise the most basic questions: Who has the most weapons of mass destruction in the world by far? Who has used weapons of mass destruction more than any other nation? Who has killed more people in this world with weapons of mass destruction than any other nation? The answer: the United States." Howard Zinn PATHOCRACY: THE GLOBAL ORDER DO PSYCHOPATHS RULE THE WORLD? Roman Emperor Caligula Throughout history, psychopaths, sociopaths and character-disordered individuals have ruled societies. And, they rule ours. "Americans are too broadly underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world. Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations... Politicians and the media have conspired to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At heart, politicians don't believe that Americans can handle complex truths, and the news media, especially television news, basically agrees." Tom Fenton "I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for Capitalism... The general public shoulders the bill. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones, Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, 1935 John Perkins INTERNET NEWS & INFORMATION "Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for. " Brian Reade, London columnist DOCUMENTARIES, VIDEOS, & PHOTOS PAGE "War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder." Alexander Berkman MEDIA - MAIN PAGE Glenn Greenwald / Michel Chossudovsky / Chris Hedges / John Pilger / Oliver Stone "Most Americans have no idea that what we are fed by the news media is nothing more than a portrayal of what powerful corporations want us to believe, that what happens to pass as education is as often as not mere propaganda, that what we learn in church may have very little or nothing to do with the truth, that what our parents teach us may be nothing more than an accumulation of their own personal biases, no doubt a rather subtle modification of what they were taught by their parents. And through such a process, governments and nations around the world wield control as to what their citizens, believe, value, and do." Doug Soderstrom BOOK EXCERPTS - SORTED ALPHABETICALLY BOOK EXCERPTS - SORTED BY SUBJECT Internet News and Information page Independent Press & Publishers pagePropaganda page Public relations watch Project Censored pageMedia Control pageBroadcast Media watch "What the press do is they tell you lies, lies they already know you want to hear. The press can figure out what its readers or viewers believe, and make a hell of a living pandering to their egos and telling them that they're smart. They lie and tell the audience they are right, and they never have to change your mind about anything. And the audience rewards them, lauding them and paying them money to keep hearing those sweet, self-serving lies." Allan Uthman Media pageMedia watchMedia Reform Print Media pageGlobal Media pageMedia & New World Order page Magazines pageProgressive Media Links Think Tank watchFreedom of Information Act - Help Center "More than fifty years ago the [J.P.] Morgan firm decided to infiltrate the Left-wing political movements in the United States. This was relatively easy to do, since these groups were starved for funds and eager for a voice to reach the people. Wall Street supplied both. The purpose was not to destroy ... or take over but was really threefold: (1) to keep informed about the thinking of Left-wing or liberal groups; (2) to provide them with a mouthpiece so that they could "blow off steam," and (3) to have a final veto on their publicity and possibly on their actions, if they ever went "radical". Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy and Hope" AUTHORS' PAGE Howard Zinn / William Blum / Chalmers Johnson / F. William Engdahl / Paul Craig Roberts "Communism and socialism are themselves forms of monopoly. The only difference is that in this case, the monopoly is operated by the government. But what if an international banker, through loans to the state, manipulation of a central bank, campaign contributions, or bribes, is able to achieve dominion over a government? In that case, he would find socialism welcome, for it would serve him as an instrument to control society." James Perloff CORPORATE MEDIA'S THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

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