Return to DonkeyphantDonkeyphant Vol. 1     1997-1999

 

The real mass media are basically trying to divert people.  Let them do something else, but don't bother us (us being the people who run the show).  Let them get interested in professional sports, for example.  Let everybody be crazed about professional sports or sex scandals or the personalities and their problems or something like that.  Anything, as long as it isn't serious.  Of course, the serious stuff is for the big guys.  'We' take care of that.

Noam Chomsky
Each cruise missile that is launched could have built a dozen schools or hired another hundred teachers or provided health care to a thousand people.  Those millions of dollars could have been spent saving lives and educating children.  Every night, Clinton isn't just bombing Yugoslavia, he's bombing [America].

Michael Moore
Who benefits from the war in the Balkans? Big U.S. military contractors. The stock of Raytheon, which makes the Tomahawk cruise missile--used to destroy and kill in the Balkans--is up 17 percent in the past two weeks. One defense industry stock analyst told USA Today recently: 'Some of the performance is driven by excitement in Kosovo and renewed interest in their products.' No wonder twelve big military manufacturers-- including Ameritech, DaimlerChrysler, Boeing, GM, Honeywell, Motorola, and TRW-- have ponied up $250,000 each to underwrite NATO's big shindig in Washington this weekend. How convenient to meet the leaders of NATO 'democracies' and sell them more weapons of mass destruction. What's the difference between such arrangements and run-of-the-mill bribery and mass reckless homicide? With NATO and the military contractors, it's all legal.

Russell Mokhiber
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Corporate America Another Start-Up?   Clay

The Internet Elite

Why does the Internet exist?  Who benefits from it?  Who can afford to publish on the Internet, and who can afford to peruse its contents?  Does the Internet represent progress for humanity?  Will this 'progress' trickle down to those huddled ISP-less masses?  If someone doesn't want or need to spend hours weekly on the Internet, are they inferior?  What kind of future is in store for them? 

I'm tired of the futuristic Reaganite fairytales inspired by Disney and General Electric.   The Internet is just an extension of the highly industrialized and unsustainable world.  Soon people like me won't be able to afford real estate on the Internet.  My voice will be drowned out by porn, online shopping, and advertisements cleverly disguised as "news."

My voice may suck, you may not agree with me, I may be a complete idiot, but at least it's my voice and not Honda's.