Dictatorship to Democracy
Recently I read Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship to Democracy. I also re-watched Ridley Scott’s and Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood. If …
Recently I read Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship to Democracy. I also re-watched Ridley Scott’s and Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood. If …
What does dishonesty signify? Hypocrisy? A desire to conceal the truth? What if propaganda and image making become so habitual …
In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated, and my view is that Washington and the …
Governments promote threats and remove freedoms for their own reasons, not to serve others. Fearful citizens grant governments power to protect them, then learn the price in lost liberty. Let’s not ask government to protect us from things that make us afraid. Let government be fearful and respectful – of us. Let government look for protection from things that make it afraid. Let government retreat until it becomes not a master but a servant. After the way it has acted, it won’t find protection from citizens who are angry and fed up. It won’t find protection from citizens who want their freedom back. It has lost its friends.
We’ve read a lot this summer about the titanic struggle between President Obama and Republicans in Congress. Each party claims …
A preference for orderly change means we anticipate a familiar future. We want change to occur according to predictable processes. Unpredictable change causes confusion, and confusion only aids opportunists.
Glenn Greenwald posts another article about Bradley Manning at Salon: The Motives of Bradley Manning. Read the article to understand …