“If you share a faith, there is an immediate foundation of trust there.” Quote by Erin Siegal McIntyre
“I don't think crowdfunding is a good idea for journalism in general. Good work should be supported by news organizations, and publishers should pony up money to support investigative reporting. But we're in hard times, so there are upsides and downsides to it.” ThinkingSupportJournalismHard TimesGood Work Author:Erin Siegal McIntyre
“One of my failings as a new reporter is that I don't know when to stop. It's a very fine line, and I think that's a really important skill to have - to know when to stop asking questions. I’m still trying to figure that out.” ThinkingTryingImportantFailing Author:Erin Siegal McIntyre
“The establishment Trump talked about wasn’t really Wall Street. He said, “When Washington got rich.” Bernie Sanders would have said, “When Wall Street got rich, the country didn’t.” So I think when Donald Trump says "Washington," what he means is the government regulatory agencies.” ThinkingMeanCountryRichWall Author:Michael Hudson
“When Mr.Trump says he wants to help all Americans, he means he wants to help all Americans in the 1% by really letting Wall Street get a huge debt from the 99% of the Americans. It's just the opposite of what people believe.” PeopleBelieveMeanHelpingWall Author:Michael Hudson
“Mr. Trump wants to turn the U.S. economy into the kind of real estate development that has made him so rich in New York. It will make his fellow developers rich, and it will make the banks that finance this infrastructure rich, but the people are going to have to pay for it in a much higher cost for transportation, much higher cost for all the infrastructure that he’s proposing. You could call Trump's plan "public investment to create private profit". That's really his plan in a summary.” PeopleKindRealEconomyRichInvestmentFinanceTransportation Author:Michael Hudson
“Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European civilization. Then there was the First World War. That was the beginning of the end. That civilization has been in a decline ever since. But from the American triumphalist point of view our wonderful electronic revolution is really the forefront of an ongoing wonderful civilization.” WorldWarAgeWonderfulRevolutionWesternPoint Of ViewWar Of The WorldsFirst World War Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media." I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture."” PeopleThinkingArtArtistCulturePoetCoupleCriticsLibrarian Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“Today America's on the wrong side of the world revolution. What I mean by that is, the world revolution is the people's revolution, the liberation movements in all the third world countries, which when everyone tries to get started the U.S. stops.” WorldTryingMeanCountryTodayRevolutionLiberation Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.” WorldMeanArtDoneConsciousnessRevolutionChanging The WorldSlogansHippiePsychedelic Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“We have a strong and vital role to play in Iraq, and we certainly cannot leave a vacuum for the insurgents to take over. We are engaged in a conflict from which America cannot afford to cut and run. We must be steadfast in this endeavor, upon which depends not only our future but that of the entire modern world.” WorldRunningStrongCuttingModernConflictOur FutureInsurgent Author:George W. Bush