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“Democracy” inUSAmerica is Useful Fiction

February 15, 2010 – 8:26 pm

“DEMOCRACY” in US AMERICA is USEFUL FICTION – Chris Hedges The fiction of democracy remains useful, not only for corporations, but for our bankrupt liberal class. If the fiction is seriously challenged, liberals will be forced to consider actual resistance, which will be neither pleasant nor easy. As long as a democratic facade exists, liberals […]

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God’s Last Offer

February 12, 2010 – 11:37 am

“In the language of religion, God has given us an offer: to see the consequences of our actions & assume moral responsibility for them; or to be consumed by them…We’ll either have to end our artificial separation from the rest of life or end our span, as most other species have eventually ended theirs.” -God’s […]

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One Person’s Freedom Fighter/Hero Is Another Person’s Terrorist

February 3, 2010 – 8:32 am

On left in photo, Chinese student stands in front of military tank in Tiananmen Sq in Beijing, June 5, 1989. He was lauded by US Pres Geeorge HW Bush as a brave, courageous hero, causing tank to stop. On right, USA Vietnam veteran sits in front of military train in California, Sept. 1, 1987 (21 […]

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We Are the Antidote – Every Choice a revolutionary Act

January 30, 2010 – 8:18 pm

There is a deeply uncomfortable but clearly structural explanation for the pattern of historic U.S. war-making that continues to this very moment. US Americans, people like you and me, are addicted to insatiable consumption that makes the American Way Of Life totally dependent upon massive exploitation of others and their resources, and the earth herself.  […]

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Why Do We Kill, Maim, and Colonize? Chief Sitting Bull Told Us in 1877

January 29, 2010 – 4:27 pm

The great Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull resisted forced settlement on reservations in the 1870s. In 1877, after he defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn, he decided to migrate to Canada. He had mixed feelings about such migration as he pronounced the following words:  “Behold my brothers, the Spring has come; the earth has received […]

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