Raising Hell: Issue 89: On Climate Change As A Class Issue
"I'm a warrior for the middle class!" - former US president Barack Obama, on the campaign trail in Ohio, 22 September 2011.
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Raising Hell: Issue 88: 'Expressing Concern About How Those Customers Would Feel'
"I will simply not do penance." - Text handwritten by Adolf Eichmann in 1956, as quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015).
Raising Hell: Issue 87: 'Within Scope'
'Pinching $50,000 from a son of a bitch is not theft, it's a good deed.' - Fidel Castro, responding to criticism after having taken money from Francisco Prío, lawyer and CIA asset
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
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