A quotation (probably) from Hannah Arendt

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/82785/

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Arendt, Hannah - (Attributed) | WIST Quotations

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism. Widely attributed to Arendt, and in keeping with her other writings, but I cannot find a primary source or citation.

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War on Iran:

“We are facing not only a period of unapologetic imperialism to which virtually all Western countries are prepared to defer, but a return of medievalism, both in the sheer barbarity and scale of physical abuse.”

https://braveneweurope.com/craig-murray-the-war-for-greater-israel

#israel #usa #iran #barbarism

Craig Murray - The War for Greater Israel - Brave New Europe

We are facing not only a period of unapologetic imperialism to which virtually all Western countries are prepared to defer, but a return of medievalism, both in the sheer barbarity and scale of physical abuse [...]

Brave New Europe

@ChrisMayLA6 ‘Brecht on Fascism not being merely barbarism for its own sake:’ https://www.kmjn.org/snippets/brecht35_fascism.html

No Nation is free from becoming a fascist state. None should doubt, that fascism is the barbaric ideology of celebrity cults dependent on corporate sovereignty; the monopolies of industrial tech., so Trump is 100% fascist. Without the collaboration of the ultra rich investor financiers receiving the tax and policy benefits of deregulated capital markets, he would not have the power to circumvent The Constitution, stack the judiciary, the legislature and gain the bias favour of the media to secure the ascendancy to his dictatorship and become the Emperor he clearly desires to be. Corporate sovereignty and its totalitarian world order is a negative-sum game playing one party against another to get the finance and media attention one party needs to win elections, so antitrust corporate interests can protect their business with dictators to steal or destroy other Nations resources. How else could they preserve their Empire’s programme of ecocide? As such it is diametrically opposed to the democratic rights of diverse interests, so it is the antithesis of Republic Sovereignty. A Federation of Republics can defeat its cruel and diabolical reign of corruption and violence. #Fascism #Barbarism #DiabolicalViolence #CorporateSovereignty #Empire #Freedom #RepublicSovereignty #TheFederation

Excerpt from: Bertolt Brecht (1935). Writing the truth: Five difficulties. Translation by ...

"Public pressure has helped to free some of them—Mariela Sobrero Chillitupa and her three children, for example, were released last weekend—but the harsh reality is that many more children are still inside, coping with inadequate food, unsanitary conditions, and the rapid spread of disease."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty #children #LiamRamos
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"The online celebration of 5-year-old Liam Ramos’s release from a detention center in Dilley, Texas was tempered by the awareness that many other kids remain trapped in terrible conditions, often with their entire families."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty #children #LiamRamos
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"The alliteratively named detention centers are facing a massive backlash, because it turns out that the public cares much more about rampant child abuse than a catchy name."

~ Adrian Carrasquillo

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty #children #LiamRamos
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built

ICE Detention Centers Face Huge Backlash—Before They’ve Even Been Built

Turns out ICE has bad PR.

The Bulwark

"They are containment areas that will be used as a tool to get people to want to leave the country.

But don't worry. A note from one of the officials advocating for the facility notes that 'our team and engineers believe the solutions above, and the contingencies, will provide no adverse effect on the community and surrounding properties.'"

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty
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"What's discussed is not the moral effect that hosting thousands of people targeted by ICE will have on the community but, instead, what effect there might be on water and electrical supplies.

These are not 'dormitory pods' meant to provide a place to sleep to people waiting to hear the status of their immigration cases."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #EthnicCleansing #warehouses #detention #ConcentrationCamps #barbarism #cruelty
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"Nearly 5,000 of them, including some for detainees with disabilities. Row after row, cage after cage. In the full document, seen at the town's website, another 3,000-plus 'pods' are to be built in a 'mezzanine.'

The presentation about the facility is striking because it's so anodyne."

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