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Friday, April 14, 2006 |
AmericaBlog: "Iran is ten years away from developing nuclear weapons. There is no discussion of America rushing into another premature war until either Bush leaves office, or Congress is able to provide effective oversight of, and can serve as a counter-balance to, the Bush administration's incompetence."
Harper's Magazine for April has two interesting articles:
The Spirit of Disobedience - An invitation to resistance
"We so desperately need a spirited culture of refusal, a counter-life to the reigning corporate culture of death.
We need to turn to good, useful, and beautiful work. We need to ask, as Thoreau and Ruskin did, What are the life-giving things? Such important questions are answered for us in the present by the corporate state, while we are left with the most trivial decisions: what programs to watch on TV and what model car to buy.
We need to work inventively - as Christ did, as Thoreau did - in the spirit of disobedience for the purpose of refusing the social order into which we happen to have been born and putting in its place a culture of life-giving things.
So let the Age turn, as St. Paul promised. We're well done with this world."
American Coup d'Etat - Military thinkers discuss the unthinkable
"Even the best-equipped terrorists, for their part, could dispatch at most a city or two; and armed revolution is a futile prospect, so fearsomely is our homeland secured by police and military forces. To subdue America entirely, the only route remaining would be to seize the machinery of state itself, to steer it toward malign ends - to carry out, that is, a coup d'état.
The question that arises is whether, in fact, we're not already experiencing what is in essence a creeping coup d'état. But it's not people in uniform who are seizing power. It's militarized civilians, who conceive of the world as such a dangerous place that military power has to predominate, that constitutional constraints on the military need to be loosened."
In fact, those militarized civilians in authority are deliberately making this world a dangerous place, to justify their coup d'état.
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© Copyright 2006 Hetty Litjens.
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