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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Political links
I have so far resisted the temptation to post just a few links because I imagine I should be collecting information from various sources and putting the pieces together here. Alas, today, the articles speak quite well for themselves:
Published in 1935, Author USMC Major Genereal Smedley D. Butler (1881-1940) "WAR IS A RACKET"
I'm currently reading Mark Crispin Miller's "Cruel and Unusual BUSH/CHENEY'S NEW WORLD ORDER" ************************** As Mark Cripen Miller argues here with clarity and effect, we are living in an America that would appall the founding fathers: a state that is neither democratic nor republican, and no more "conservative" than it is liberal. He exposes the Bush Republicans' unprecedented lawlessness, their bullying religiousity , their reckless militarism, their apocalyptic views of the economy and planet, their emotional dependence on sheer hatefulness, and, above all, their long campaign against American Democracy. Abraham Lincoln once observed that if the United States should ever be subverted, it would be from within. That, Miller argues, is what will finally happen here, unless Americans - left, right, and center - become aware of this regime's intentions and work together to reclaim the nation for the republican democracy. ******************************
1 comment:
Hi Ya,
Important reads, thanks.
Published in 1935,
Author
USMC Major Genereal Smedley D. Butler (1881-1940)
"WAR IS A RACKET"
I'm currently reading Mark Crispin Miller's "Cruel and Unusual
BUSH/CHENEY'S NEW WORLD ORDER"
**************************
As Mark Cripen Miller argues here with clarity and effect, we are living in an America that would appall the founding fathers: a state that is neither democratic nor republican, and no more "conservative" than it is liberal. He exposes the Bush Republicans' unprecedented lawlessness, their bullying religiousity , their reckless militarism, their apocalyptic views of the economy and planet, their emotional dependence on sheer hatefulness, and, above all, their long campaign against American Democracy.
Abraham Lincoln once observed that if the United States should ever be subverted, it would be from within. That, Miller argues, is what will finally happen here, unless Americans - left, right, and center - become aware of this regime's intentions and work together to reclaim the nation for the republican democracy.
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thanks again for your time
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