A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.

The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.