Author Archives: brian

Choosing nonviolence or nonexistence

June 26, 2012 – 12:23 am

I wrote this on August 28, 1986, as I was preparing to embark upon a water only, open-ended fast on the east U.S. capitol Steps with three other veterans protesting U.S. policies of terror being waged against the campesinos of Central America. It is as relevant now as it was then, perhaps more so. …………………………………………………………………………. […]

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Gene Sharp: A Dictator’s Worst Nightmare

June 25, 2012 – 7:07 pm

Political scientist Gene Sharp has spent a lifetime describing the dozens of nonviolent ways to create collapse of corrupt, brutal power. This CNN story amazingly tells of Gene Sharp’s genius. Everything from strikes, to staying home, to fasts. He identifies 198 methods. And he stresses that no regime, not even the most brutally authoritarian, can […]

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Obomber’s Murder Lists

June 25, 2012 – 6:42 pm

Excellent essay by the always poignant John Pilger. Tough guy Obomber personally selects the victims of his drone attacks from mug shots on a kill list handed him by his intelligence advisors on “terror Tuesdays.”

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Liberation Requires Disobedience

June 25, 2012 – 5:41 pm

In 1553, or thereabouts, a young French lawyer, Etienne De La Boetie, wrote an amazing essay, The Politics of Obedience: Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, in which his study of the history of tyranny revealed that no matter how hierarchical power is derived – kings, dictators or elections – men inevitably enable their own tyrants. Whether […]

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This is a Test! Blog posting on Facebook

June 25, 2012 – 4:38 pm

If you are reading this on Facebook, that is a very good sign…. Many of my Facebook friends will be aware that I have recently threatened to deactivate my FB account. In response, several people suggested I find a way for my blogs to simultaneously appear on my FB page via RSS feed. My technical […]

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