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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

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Saturday, January 10, 2015

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Monday, November 12, 2012

CIA denies it detained militants in Benghazi

CIA denies it detained militants in Benghazi

This story gets better and better! Petraeus's mistress says in a lecture that the CIA is keeping prisoners, in violation of President Obama's orders. If Paula Broadwell had given that information to Julian Assange and he published it in Wikileaks, Broadwell would be prosecuted as a spy.

Soviet communism became a joke before Gorbachev began to dismantle it. Fortunately our national security state is becoming a joke, too, but it is still dangerous. We just have to hope for more scandals, until the phrase United States government makes people roll their eyes.

If we can strip athletes and teams of their championships, we ought to strip Obama of his Nobel peace prize and award it to Bradley Manning. We should not kid around here. Manning's contribution to peace and security far exceeds that of President Obama, the commander in chief who holds Manning in prison.
I checked out the TLJ resource center today, and found the site has visitors! That's a surprise! This site makes a good reading log. I've been using Facebook for that purpose, but I'm not sure it's ideal. Time to sign off for now.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Marty Rosenthal

Hi Marty,

I just heard the piece on NPR about your Pledge of Allegiance efforts. Good for you and your group! You need some support, with all the nasty things people say to you. You are correct that their response makes your case for you. If you object to a loyalty oath and you get responses like that, the loyalty oath is objectionable. Moreover, if something deserves loyalty, you don't need a pledge to enforce it or reinforce it. Loyalty comes from your heart.

Thanks for standing up,

/Steve

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

14 Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans | Truthout

Hi Rob,

This one caught my eye because we've talked about Fox news in our family before:

http://www.truth-out.org/14-propaganda-techniques-fox-news-uses-brainwash-americans/1309612678

I did not, however, scan much past the opening two or three paragraphs. The author has no sense of the history of American journalism. From the start – 1776 and before – we have had propaganda, innuendo, lies, appalling or laughable attacks, subjective analysis, distortion, defamation, and all manner of vicious material in our democratic journalism. That’s what you get with free speech. We’ve had good and bad journalism in our national conversation forever. The difference now, with the internet and digital communication in general, is that we have much more of each – good and bad. Citizens always had to sort out truth and falsehood in the nation’s collective consciousness. The job may be harder now because the quantity is greater, but for me it’s feels like the opposite. The more bad journalism I’m exposed to, the easier it becomes to recognize it.

I know we’ve differed on the general question of citizens’ abilities in this area, but I figured I’d make my contrarian case anyway!

Love,

Dad

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Michele Bachmann’s ‘Constitutional Conservatism': The Hidden Meaning | The New Republic

Michele Bachmann’s ‘Constitutional Conservatism': The Hidden Meaning | The New Republic:

"Bachmann’s own intimate connections to the more radical strains of conservative thinking, which long predate the Tea Party movement, are there for anyone to see. And there is only so much mileage she can gain from her so-far successful efforts to exceed the expectations of those who had the vague but erroneous impression that her extremist tendencies are the product of stupidity or indiscipline."

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com: "It's been a long time since Americans felt this good and strong about themselves -- nothing like putting bullets in someone's skull and dumping their corpse into an ocean to rejuvenate that can-do American sense of optimism."

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Power and Struggle

Amazon.com: Power and Struggle (Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 1): Gene Sharp

As a military officer I studied and implemented violence for twenty-six years. Thanks to the movie "Friendly Persuasion" and my introduction to Quakers, I began to wonder if there wasn't a better way. That eventually brought me to Gene Sharp's book.

The first volume is rather short and summarizes. It is well worth the read. The second volume is rather dull from a reading standpoint but very necessary. Probably only an academe or tactician could really get enthused about it. The third volume is a good read. I found it very informative and useful.

Before reading this book, my answer to peaceniks would have been that the only true peace was that of the battlefield -- when everything is quiet and dead. I imaged nonviolence as capitulation. Now I see it as conflict by other means: a means of struggle requiring high courage, strict discipline, and thoughtful strategy.

I believe that two conditions are required for nonviolence to succeed: 1) there must be sufficient information flow between the populations of the nonviolent group and the aggressor group, and 2) some proportion of the aggressor group must be able to identify with members of the nonviolent group. If news of the struggle never circulates, bureaucracy can structure violence to continue indefinitely; if the aggressors see others as less than animals, the violence will also continue without end.

In violent struggle at least 50% of the participants lose. Sometimes the costs are so high that everybody loses. In nonviolent struggle, at most 50% of the participants lose and often not so severely. Sometimes both sides seem to come out ahead.

Emotionally, I'm still very much in touch with the hubris of violence. Intellectually, nonviolence offers strategies and approaches not otherwise available. Both those who extol nonviolence and those who denigrate it as folly should read this book. Otherwise, I think they speak from the most desperate ignorance.

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Albert Einstein Institution - Advancing freedom through nonviolent action