Flaherty, Jordan. No More Heroes. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2016.
> In AD 1096, Pope Urban II launched the Crusades—three centuries of massacres of Jews, Muslims, and other nonbelievers that ultimately left up to three million people dead. He masked his call for violence in the language of peace: “Let therefore hatred depart from among you, let your quarrels end, let wars cease, and let all dissensions and controversies slumber. Enter upon the road to the Holy Sepulchre; wrest that land from the wicked race, and subject it to yourselves.” That is the savior at its worst, with lies of peace and generosity masking violent self-interest. It is as old as conquest and as enduring as colonialism.
> Hillary Clinton’s State Department worked hard to overturn a 2009 law passed by the Haitian Parliament that raised the minimum wage to sixty-two cents per hour. According to State Department documents released by Wikileaks, Clinton’s State Department worked with USAID and private corporations like Levis and Hanes to cut that wage in half for garment workers. Both Bill Clinton (representing the Clinton Foundation) and Hillary Clinton (still at the State Department) later pushed for an industrial park in which most workers took home less than two dollars a day.