NORMAN SOLOMON – The war on Iran is enabled by remaining silent and just following orders. Ellsbarg wrote in his journal at the time of the Gulf War, “There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
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Climate Change Movement Initiates Civil Resistance
BILL MCKIBBEN – Ain’t eBay grand? For $10 you can buy a sack of 50 assorted Obama ’08 buttons, and that’s what I’ve been doing. If you look closely, you might see them this weekend on the lapels of some of the global warming protesters holding a sit-in outside the White House.
Have Americans Given Up?
PETER BERGEL: In an enormously provocative article entitled “Are Americans a Broken People? Why We’ve Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression†psychologist Bruce E. Levine divines what ails the American body politic.