"This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men."
John Perkins
‘Whatever happens, the [1997 Asian currency] crisis probably signaled the beginning of the end of the American empire and a shift to a tripolar world in which the United States, Europe, and East Asia simultaneously share power and compete for it.’
Chalmers Johnson, Blowback, 2004
"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology."
Michael Parenti
"Repentance and forgiveness are the two great gifts of God. But there is the third and greatest gift of all, which is thankfulness. For with thankfulness our sinful pride is vanquished, our hearts are opened, and love enters — and a light comes into our life."
Jesse, Love and Thankfulness, 15 November 2018