All for capitalist accumulation
"Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as Nature was formerly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 percent will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 percent certainly will produce eagerness; 50 percent, positive audacity; 100 per cent will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 percent, and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged. If turbulence and strife will bring a profit, it will freely encourage both. Smuggling and the slave-trade have amply proved all that is here stated." Quoted by Marx as a footnote to Capital from T J Dunning in Trades' Union and Strikes (Marx Engels Collected Works Vol 35 p748 in the section "Historical tendency of capitalist accumulation").* * * "Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall (and for quite a while before that) the triumphalists of the west have insisted that democracy is impossible without capitalism. It should surely be fairly obvious by now that democracy is impossible in the presence of capitalism or, for that matter, any system that permits the concentration of wealth." George Monbiot author of The Age of Consent* * * "The tortures and killings in Abu Graib were revealed to the world in the aftermath of Faluja. The explosive disclosures in their blood curdling detail mirrored the scale of the occupants' bestiality. Words such as shocked, horrified, despicable, appalled, had become a common currency. Day after day as the images struck the public eye there was the awareness that these crimes were not confined to a specific prison in a single city and were not limited in time. They straddled the occupied lands of Afghanistan and the Guantanamo Naval Base." Frederick F Clairmont in Faluja: The Beacon of Freedom* * * Piers Morgan was sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror because he ran the only popular newspaper in Britain to expose the "war on terror" as a fraud and the invasion of Iraq as a crime. On July 4, 2002, American Independence Day, the Daily Mirror published a report of mine displayed on the front page under the headline "Mourn on the Fourth of July" and showing Bush flanked by the Stars and Stripes. Above him were the words: 'George W Bush's policy of bomb first and find out later has killed double the number of civilians who died on 11 September. The USA is now the world's leading rogue state.'" John Pilger in How the 'Free Media' are Manipulated.