GRAEBER, David. "The United States: An idea whose time has passed"
In the light of recent events I’d like to promulgate a proposal: I remember reading in The Nation some years ago, after Dukakis’ defeat, that (...)
2004 Election Comments
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
President James Madison, April 20, 1795
Articles
ZINN, Howard. "The Optimism of Uncertainty "
"Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment (beware of such moments!) but as an endless succession of surprises" In this (...)
ALBERT, Michael. "Tomorrow Is a Long Time"
I woke up, suffered through the news, and opened my email. This was the first message I read. "Seriously.. I don’t know who answers you guy’s (...)
... and pre-election remarks: Noam Chomsky on the State of the Nation, Iraq and the Election
Preliminary remark. Please note that the text presented here was edited by Democracy Now before publication. Some details were changed. In (...)
One People, one Country, one Leader
The next few years aren’t going to be pretty. By a small majority, Americans voted for four more years of war, fear, economic downward spiraling, (...)
CLARK, John P. "On the US Presidential Election: The Left Sells its Soul to the Devil and all it Gets for it Is A Lousy ’Support Our Troops’ T-shirt"
During the electoral campaign I sent a number of messages to discussion lists and individuals in which I assessed the electoral process. My (...)
"Yes, New York Messed With Texans"
New York Times(9/4/2004) Vol. 153 #52962, pB1-B2 24-year-old Alan Gibson with anarchist comrades traveled from Texas to protest at the 2004 (...)