In this month’s podcast for Le Monde diplomatique, George Miller talks to journalist and author K. Biswas about the fortunes of Europe’s far-right populist parties, many of which have entered mainstream politics in ways unthinkable a decade ago. They discuss the role of the media and of leadership in their fortunes, and how to interpret July’s tragic events in Norway in the context of far-right politics.
Our Diane Gee recently (24 February) had the opportunity to interview Cindy Sheehan, without a doubt one of the most courageous and lucid political activists in the US. Listen carefully to this interview and see if you can put some of Cindy’s ideas into practice. Cindy walks the line. Can we? The system is betting (and hoping) we won’t.
“SUPPORT OUR TROOPS” is an unconditional American mantra. We’re told to celebrate them as warrior-liberators, as heroes, as the finest fighters the world has ever known. They’re to be put on a pedestal or plinth, holding a rifle and a flag, icons to American toughness and goodness.
What we’re not told to do is listen to them. Read more…
Revolutionary Violence vs Institutionalized Violence
"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty and heartbreak? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief terror that we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror - that unspeakable bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves..." —Mark Twain, writing about the French Revolution.
Make creeps like Kissinger
and Palin miserable.
Read The Greanville Postby RSS Syndication (updates delivered every 4 days to your emailbox) and fortify your ability to fight back! IT'S FREE! Just click anywhere on Lady Liberty below and enter your email address.