As nonviolent protest rolls across the Middle East—now in Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, and Iran—we see governments convulsing and fighting back, violently, but in a way that shows their ultimate lack of power. Today’s New York Time’s reports on how the quiet American intellectual, Gene Sharp, took Gandhi’s ideas and compiled them into a primer… Continue reading After Nonviolent Protest…
Tag: Iraq
Wedding Crashers
Tomdispatch reports that since 2001 the US has bombed at least four wedding parties in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tom Engelhardt’s piece starts with a snapshot of the Jenna Bush’s daugter’s wedding then cuts to this: That was early May of this year. Less than two months later, halfway across the world, another tribal affair was… Continue reading Wedding Crashers
Five Years
Enough is enough. We are so over Bush. I hear his voice on the radio, his speech on this fifth anniversary of our war in Iraq, saying he doesn’t regret it even though 70% of the American people do. Enough. This is an all-too-familiar sensation. Most of my teenage and adult life I have had… Continue reading Five Years
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