For a reality check (after being lulled by the major news media and the handful of billionaires that own it into the false belief that the U.S. actually functions as a democratic republic), check out Democracy Now! and also the good people at the WSWS:
Then ask yourself why Iraq's petroleum industry is being divvied up among foreign oil companies and why the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in favor of promotional tests that consistently (and, as I understand it, exclusively) favor white firefighters over their African American and Latino co-workers.
Capitalist Imperialism abroad and the Angry White Man Revanchement at home. Looks like it's back to business as usual in the U. S. of A.
Yes we can!
Change we can believe in!
November 2008 seems like such a long, long, time ago in a land far, far, away.
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Ghaffar Khan and Mahatma Gandhi
An invitation to renew Abdul Ghaffar Khan's life-long non-violent struggle against injustice.
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Suggested Reading
- Rajmohan Gandhi, Ghaffar Khan: Nonviolent Badshah of the Pakhtuns, London: Penguin, 2004.
- Eknath Easwaran, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, 2nd Edition, Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 1999.
- Amitabh Pal, "A Pacifist Uncovered," http://www.progressive.org/mag_amitpalabdul
- Leo Tolstoy, The Law of Love and the Law of Violence, University Press of the Pacific, 2001.
- H. D. Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience," http://thoreau.eserver.org/default.html
Statement of Conscientious Objection to War in Any Form
I hereby affirm, and publish for all the world to witness, my moral opposition to the use of violence to settle disputes. Consequently, I refuse to participate in, or cooperate with, any group, organization, or agency of government that would require me to engage in any act of violence against a fellow human being. Furthermore, I hereby pledge and affirm, from this day forward, to organize my life and livelihood in such a way as to promote peacemaking as a practical ideal.
"Service, Conviction, Love"
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This weblog is dedicated to the memory of Professor Jerome Laulicht who passed away March 3, 2006. Dr. Laulicht, a pioneer in the field of peace studies at the University of Pittsburgh, was a wonderful teacher who believed in my potential as a peace-wager long before I ever began to believe it myself.
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