Comments on: Journalists.. Which side are you on?

By: "I hate soldiers. I hate to see a man with a bayonet fixed on his rifle, who can order me off the street." « 3arabawy

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:51:50 +0000

[...] John Reed, “The Worst Thing in Europe,” The Masses, March 1915… I hate soldiers. I hate to see a man with a bayonet fixed on his rifle, who can order me off the street. I hate to belong to an organization that is proud of obeying a caste of superior beings, that is proud of killing free ideas, so that it may the more efficiently kill human beings in cold blood. They will tell you that a conscript army is Democratic, because everybody has to serve; but they won’t tell you that military service plants in your blood the germ of blind obedience, of blind irresponsibility, that it produces one class of Commanders in your state and your industries; and accustoms you to do what they tell you even in time of peace. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: "'If I had the job of popularizing this war, I would begin by sending three or four thousand American soldiers to certain death" « 3arabawy

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:46:16 +0000

[...] John Reed, “The Unpopular War,” Seven Arts, August 1917, interviewing a group of Council of National Defense officials about the US involvement in an ensuing unpopular World War… One of them… The aviation enthusiast spoke up, lying on his back and blowing expensive cigar smoke at the ceiling. “Do you know what is needed? Only one thing–the same that did the trick for England. Casualties. At first it was impossible to interest the English masses in the war; they could not be made to see that it was their affair. But when the lists of the dead, wounded, mutilated, began to come back–and, by the way, England ought to be grateful for the German atrocities–then hatred of the Germans began to soak into the whole people from the families of the wonded and the dead. This social anger is patriotism–for war purposes. ‘If I had the job of popularizing this war, I would begin by sending three or four thousand American soldiers to certain death. That would wake the country up.’ [...]

By: Spreading information is essentially an act of agitation « 3arabawy

Spreading information is essentially an act of agitation « 3arabawy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:42:55 +0000

[...] world, there is no room for the word “neutrality.” Journalists should always remember which side they are on… These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web [...]

By: Hossam el-Hamalawy

Hossam el-Hamalawy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:57:10 +0000

He’s the best!

By: Jack Stephens

Jack Stephens — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:22:48 +0000

Ah, John Reed, love that guy!