Raising Hell: Issue 86: Here's a little gas-fired fantasy
'[...]More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.' - Primo Levi, 17 February 1986
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Raising Hell: Issue 85: "Incentives for Exploration"
"Propaganda is of no use to the politician unless he has something to say which the public, consciously or unconsciously, wants to hear" - Edward Bernays, "Propaganda" 1928
Raising Hell: The Book Issue: "We're Not Going to Apologise"
"For readers interested in how the system hinders change, [Slick] is a timely book." - Books+Publishing, 11 June 2024
Raising Hell: Issue 84: Encouraging the Careful Use of Petroleum Products
"My belief is, we will, in fact be greeted as liberators" - Dick Cheney, former Vice President and head of Haliburton, Meet The Press with Tim Russert, March 16, 2003
Raising Hell: Issue: 83: Trapped in the perpetual present
'God gave me my money,' John D Rockefeller, Women's Home Companion (1915), quoted in God's Gold (1932).
Raising Hell: Issue 82: We Encourage You To Seek Support
"That’s the trouble with accountability sinks. They store negative feedback, but don’t deal with it." - Dan Davies, author of The Unaccountability Machine, in The Financial Times, 14 June 2024
Raising Hell: Issue: 81: "A Carefully Planned, Intensive and Continuing Campaign"
"As far as criticism is concerned, we don't resent that unless it is absolutely biased, as it is in most cases." - BJ Vorster, President Apartheid South Africa, The Observer, 1969
Raising Hell: Issue 80: A Loss Of Trust In Management
"The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part." - Hillary Clinton, 29 July 2016.
Raising Hell: Issue 79: The New Insincerity
"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death," - Albert Camus, French journalist and author in "The Fall", 1957
Raising Hell: Issue 78: Receipts
"My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy." - Major General Smedley Butler, 1932, former US Marine in reply after being asked to organise a fascist coup.