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30 September 2004

 

Thought for the day
To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
-- The Judges of Nuremberg

posted by Lorenzo 11:29 AM

29 September 2004

 

Thought for the day
The more 'free and popular' a government, the more it becomes necessary to rely on control of opinion to ensure submission to the rulers.
-- Noam Chomsky

posted by Lorenzo 9:53 AM

21 September 2004

 

Time's Up!
Every 50 years or so society needs liberation from the forces of fascism.
-- Terence McKenna, June 15, 1994

posted by Lorenzo 3:43 PM

20 September 2004

 

All or nothing
"Patriotism is not enough." But neither is anything else. Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.
-- Aldous Huxley, Island

posted by Lorenzo 3:00 PM

19 September 2004

 

Bush the Ironic
I find it amusing that the corporate press has ignored the fact that while Bush signed up for the National Guard solely to avoid being sent to Viet Nam, he isn't providing that option for today's Guards-men/-women. Today in Iraq, approximately 40% of the U.S. troops on duty are members of the National Guard. Is this the Guard's karma coming back to bite it? After shielding so many fortunate sons from the fighting in Viet Nam, it now is paying a heavy price in the bloody war on Iraq that Bush-the-Deserter has brought upon us all.

posted by Lorenzo 2:15 PM

16 September 2004

 

Something to think about
Every week now there are new stories suggesting that the top military officers at the Pentagon are disgusted with the civilian leadership that has forced us into the quagmire of Iraq. (See Far graver than Vietnam, the war in Iraq is already lost) Along with those reports come some unsettling stories about a possible military coup in November in the event that Bush steals another election. These stories first began to surface late last year and are now growing in details and frequency. While most Americans will find it hard to believe that there could be a military take-over of this country in the near future, nothing seems out of the range of possibility any more. So what is your preference, a military dictatorship or a continuation of our current fascist Christian dictatorship?

posted by Lorenzo 10:07 AM

14 September 2004

 

Something to think about
Where in all history has there ever been a people so ripe for a dictatorship as ours!
-- Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here, 1935

posted by Lorenzo 4:03 PM

13 September 2004

 

The Problem in a Nutshell

What is most depressing is how little time is spent trying to understand America's role in the world... You'd think that 'America' was a sleeping giant rather than a superpower almost constantly at war all over the Islamic domains... Collective passions are being funnelled into a drive for war that uncannily resembles Captain Ahab in pursuit of Moby Dick, rather than what is going on, an imperial power injured at home for the first time. Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.

Rational understanding of the situation is what is needed now, not more drum-beating. George Bush and his team clearly want the latter, not the former. Yet to most people in the Islamic and Arab worlds the official US is synonymous with arrogant power, known for its sanctimoniously munificent support not only of Israel but of numerous repressive Arab regimes, and its inattentiveness even to the possibility of dialogue with secular movements and people who have real grievances. Anti-Americanism in this context is not based on a hatred of modernity or technology-envy: it is based on a narrative of concrete interventions, specific depredations...

Political rhetoric in the US has overridden these things by flinging about words like 'terrorism' and 'freedom' whereas, of course, such large abstractions have mostly hidden sordid material interests, the influence of the oil, defence and Zionist lobbies now consolidating their hold on the entire Middle East, and an age-old religious hostility to (and ignorance of) 'Islam' that takes new forms every day.
-- Professor Edward Said - Columbia University

posted by Lorenzo 4:39 PM

07 September 2004

 

What's wrong with this picture?
The Republican Convention had about the same number (or more) "peace keepers" than we have in Afghanistan right now. Freedom at the end of a gun isn't freedom. It's fascism. Welcome to the American Police State.

posted by Lorenzo 5:10 PM

04 September 2004

 

Thought for the day
There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.
-- Nichiren Daishonin, circa 1280

posted by Lorenzo 3:18 PM