"Mad" Miles
10-05-2010, 12:04 PM
From TruthDig: Chris Hedges nails it as usual.
March to Nowhere
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Posted on Oct 5, 2010
<table style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; border: 0px solid rgb(85, 85, 85);" width="300"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: small;" align="right">https://www.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/AP101002134191-300.jpg</td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size: small;" align="right">AP / J. Scott Applewhite</td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size: small;">Activists gather at the Lincoln Memorial to participate in the “One Nation Working Together” rally to promote job creation, diversity and tolerance.
</td></tr> </tbody></table>By Chris Hedges (https://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges)
We can hold One Nation marches every week. It will not make any difference until we revolt against the formal structures of power.
The liberal preoccupation with positive forms of propaganda ignores the root of our problem. The tea party and hate mongers on Fox such as Glenn Beck, however repugnant, are the manifestation of the crisis, not its cause. The forces assaulting the remnants of American democracy will not be cowed or discredited with rallies, such as the one in Washington on Saturday. We will blunt these rising anti-democratic forces only when we organize outside conventional systems of power. It means dismantling the permanent war economy and the corporate state. It means an end to foreclosures and bank repossessions. It means a functional health care system for all Americans. It means taking care of our poor and unemployed. And it means a system of government that is freed from corporate interests.
(Snip, For the rest go to the linked article, URL below.)
https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/march_to_nowhere_20101005/
March to Nowhere
<table align="right" border="0" width="270" height="25"><tbody><tr align="right" valign="top" height="20"><td style="font-size: small;">
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</td></tr></tbody></table>
Posted on Oct 5, 2010
<table style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; border: 0px solid rgb(85, 85, 85);" width="300"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: small;" align="right">https://www.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/AP101002134191-300.jpg</td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size: small;" align="right">AP / J. Scott Applewhite</td></tr> <tr><td style="font-size: small;">Activists gather at the Lincoln Memorial to participate in the “One Nation Working Together” rally to promote job creation, diversity and tolerance.
</td></tr> </tbody></table>By Chris Hedges (https://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges)
We can hold One Nation marches every week. It will not make any difference until we revolt against the formal structures of power.
The liberal preoccupation with positive forms of propaganda ignores the root of our problem. The tea party and hate mongers on Fox such as Glenn Beck, however repugnant, are the manifestation of the crisis, not its cause. The forces assaulting the remnants of American democracy will not be cowed or discredited with rallies, such as the one in Washington on Saturday. We will blunt these rising anti-democratic forces only when we organize outside conventional systems of power. It means dismantling the permanent war economy and the corporate state. It means an end to foreclosures and bank repossessions. It means a functional health care system for all Americans. It means taking care of our poor and unemployed. And it means a system of government that is freed from corporate interests.
(Snip, For the rest go to the linked article, URL below.)
https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/march_to_nowhere_20101005/