Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Jane Guskin (not verified) on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 09:32.
OK, who among us has never broken a law? And how many laws does our government break every day without most of us saying a word about it? So what's outrageous? Immigrants living and working peacefully among us without permission from the federal government? Huh? Since when did US citizens suddenly become so self-righteously law-abiding?
As for the economic theory, there's a contradiction: we're concerned about this depletion of resources and its impact on the environment, but at the same time we're saying that the people consuming the most resources have to keep up their levels of consumption in order to prop up the economy and maintain their wasteful middle and upper-class standard of living--at the expense of the world's poor.
What's wrong with talking about a more equitable distribution of resources? And let's talk about how the distribution of resources got to be so warped in the first place... how a small percentage of the world's population continues to benefit from the past and present looting of resources, stolen from under the feet of--and through the sweat of--the world's majority.
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OK, who among us has never broken a law? And how many laws does our government break every day without most of us saying a word about it? So what's outrageous? Immigrants living and working peacefully among us without permission from the federal government? Huh? Since when did US citizens suddenly become so self-righteously law-abiding?
As for the economic theory, there's a contradiction: we're concerned about this depletion of resources and its impact on the environment, but at the same time we're saying that the people consuming the most resources have to keep up their levels of consumption in order to prop up the economy and maintain their wasteful middle and upper-class standard of living--at the expense of the world's poor.
What's wrong with talking about a more equitable distribution of resources? And let's talk about how the distribution of resources got to be so warped in the first place... how a small percentage of the world's population continues to benefit from the past and present looting of resources, stolen from under the feet of--and through the sweat of--the world's majority.