REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons
SUNDAY
Quote of the Day
September 1, 2013
'Don't try again to convince us that this time there
will be a clean war. The only solution is to increase
all kinds of pressure so that the belligerents sit
down around a table.'
Communist Party leader Pierre Lauren,
following Left Front leader Jean-Luc
Melenchon's statement last week.
RFI
August 28, 2013
Toon of the Day
Workers' Pay
Nick Anderson
MONDAY
Quote of the Day
September 2, 2013
'I'm encouraged that the younger generation is
looking at trying to improve a lot of things that we've
let fall to the wayside. This Labor Day may be the
most important in the last five or 10 years because
more people are recognizing the importance of
having decent wages and benefits.'
Gordon Clark, former president,
Transport Workers Union (TWU)
Local 530 (Kansas City)
'Organized labor is making noise as unions add
muscle to low-wage worker campaigns'
Kansas City Star
September 2, 2013
Toon of the Day
Mike Luckovich
TUESDAY
Quote of the Day
September 3, 2013
'The best hope lies with the American public. It is
not just the futility of eight years of fighting in Iraq,
frustration in Afghanistan, the loss of thousands of
soldiers' lives and the maiming of tens of thousands
more that are causing so much doubt over a US
attack on Syria now. Nor is it only the financial cost
of war in an era of austerity. There is a growing
sense that the problem goes beyond imperial
overstretch. The very concept of empire is under
scrutiny. Twenty years ago, Americans were proud to
be the world's hyper-power. They felt they had won a
great victory in the cold war. Now they see the pit
into which that end-of-history triumphalism has led
them. The US military-industrial complex and the
power elite in Washington are feeling unusually
uncomfortable. Even as pilotless drones and
missiles have the potential to usher in an age of US
casualty-free interventions, Obama is trying to
summon Americans to take up a punitive role yet
again. The next few days of national debate will be
crucial, and in a week's time we will see which
button they press.'
Jonathan Steele
The Guardian (UK)
September 1, 2013
Toon of the Day
Guided Missiles
Joel Pett - Lexington Herald-Leader
WEDNESDAY
Quote of the Day
September 4, 2013
'President Obama's domestic agenda is already
precarious: implementing the Affordable Care Act,
ensuring the Dodd-Frank Act adequately constrains
Wall Street, raising the minimum wage, saving
Social Security and Medicare from the Republican
right as well as deficit hawks in the Democratic
Party, ending the sequester and reviving programs
critical to America's poor, rebuilding the nation's
infrastructure, and, above all, crafting a strong
recovery.
'Time and again we have seen domestic agendas
succumb to military adventures abroad - both
because the military-industrial-congressional
complex drains money that might otherwise be used
for domestic goals, and because the public's
attention is diverted from urgent problems at home
to exigencies elsewhere around the globe.'
Economist Robert Reich
blog
September 3, 2013
Toon of the Day
Tom Toles - Washington Post
THURSDAY
Quote of the Day
September 5, 2013
'To put it simply, President Barack Obama's
administration has inherited the neoconservative
philosophy of regime change in the Middle East. The
overriding idea is that the US and its close allies get
to choose who governs in the region. Assad must go
not because he is authoritarian, but because he is
allied with Iran, which, from the perspective of the
US, Israel, Turkey, and several Gulf countries,
makes him a regional threat.
'In fact, the US has probably been lured into serving
these countries' own narrower interests, whether it
be Israel's unconvincing vision of its own security or
the Sunni countries' opposition to Shia Iran. But, in
the long term, US foreign policy divorced from
international law cannot produce anything other
than more war.'
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Professor of Sustainable
Development, Professor of Health Policy and
Management, and Director of the Earth Institute at
Columbia University
September 5, 2013
Toon of the Day
Behind Closed Doors
Doonesbury - Gary Trudeau
FRIDAY
Quote of the Day
September 6, 2013
'With unemployment high across all categories,
long-term unemployment at near record levels, and
wage growth being held down because employers
know workers don't have any other options, now is
no time to take our foot off the gas. If anything, we
should be hitting the gas pedal harder.'
Economic Policy Institute
economist Heidi Shierholz
EPI
September 6, 2013
Toon of the Day
Swampland
Jim Morin - Miami Herald
SATURDAY
Quote of the Day
September 7, 2013
'This is the moment for people to come together. We
can act where we live with 435 flying pickets – one
for each member of the House. The website of US
Labor Against the War (USLAW) offers an excellent
combination of educational materials and action
suggestions to be used in the days to come. The
Friends Committee on National Legislation and
JustForeign Policy are other great resources. Many other
groups need our participation, fresh vision, and new
approaches. We can start new groups, where we live
and where we work. We can support those facing
cutbacks and those fighting for a living wage by
encouraging them to provide new leadership to the
antiwar movement.'
Bill Simpich
Reader Supported News
September 7, 2013
Toon of the Day
Once Again
Clay Bennett
Chattannoga Times Free Press
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