Alex Berenson Quotes
After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years of United Nations sanctions, Iraq's unemployment rate tops 50 percent.
Berenson, Alex. "After the War: The Economy; Iraq's Economy Is Seen as Ready for Rapid Spurt." The New York Times, The New York Times Company, 9 May 2003, p. A1.
She is a leading American Arab who is a Syrian expatriate. The examples she gives in the beginning of the quotations are relatively recent atrocities where Muslims have attacked and brutally murdered other Muslims. She articulates one of the theories to explain the Islamic propensity to brutality and violence that the religion itself, when taught literally which it so often is, actually produces an inclination and glorification of brutal violence and develops a tolerance and acceptance of Islamic violence.
These were Catholic militias who armed themselves to protect against Protestant anti-Catholic violence. However, once organized they became a political force, a pattern which continued till modern times—organizations originally designed to protect against sectarian violence become major political forces, sometimes perpetrating more sectarian violence. Grattan, a parliamentarian unusual for his times, was one of the first to argue for the obligation of an elected member to the will of the electorate was offended by the Volunteers crudely trying to exercise political power while having no democratically elected leadership.
The Great Depression had worldwide reach. Just as Herbert Hoover and his followers felt that there was no role of the national government in dealing with the depression, Japan had a major faction that believed that the only thing to do was wait the economic cycle out. Hiranuma represented the more activist faction who saw the necessity of national government involvement.
His company, Starbucks, was the first company to provide health insurance even for part time workers.
A little over a decade later, it was the conservative President who was condemning Saddam Hussein for gassing his own people and justified the Iraq War in part over that. And in 2007 Saddam having been toppled from power, he was tried for this crimes against humanity with the major charge being his gassing of the Iraqi Kurds. He was hanged for the “liberal hate speech” which had turned into conservative hate speech, but was a correct accusation regardless of which political pole was making it. There were few issues where most Americans were as unanimous as Saddam’s guilt in the gassing of the Kurds with Limbaugh and Saddam’s relatives being about the only people who saw it as propaganda.
In Chile’s first Democratic election, to the chagrin of our Ambassador Korry and others in the U. S. Government, an avowed Socialist, Allende, was chosen by the people. Korry and others then stopped any U. S. Aid and did what they could to have the Allende Administration. However, Henry Kissinger and the CIA did not want to wait for economic sanctions to work. Keeping our Ambassador in the dark, they helped the right wing Chilean Military organize a coup to remove Allende. Allende committed suicide rather than be captured by General Pinochet and other military who commonly tortured political enemies and killing many. The result was an end to socialism, but the cost was tens of thousands of Chileans, murdered, tortured and disappeared by Pinochet and his forces. Pinochet was finally convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In 2002 he thought that President George W. Bush was the fool American. He thought the invasion of Iraq was a terrible idea which was doomed to failure.
Alex Berenson is an American writer. He was a reporter for The New York Times and has authored several thriller novels and a book on corporate financial filings. His 2019 book Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence sparked controversy, earning denunciations from many in the scientific and medical communities. During the coronavirus pandemic, Berenson has appeared frequently in United States right-wing media, making numerous false claims about the virus and its vaccines.
