- “The Years of Shame” (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
- “Endless War, Lies and Terror: The Decade Since 9/11” (Mark Weisbrot, CEPR, Al Jazeera English)
- “Orwell, 9/11, Emmanuel Goldstein and WikiLeaks” (Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com)
- “Report — A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11” (American Civil Liberties Union)
- “I’m Glad We Didn’t Have Facebook or Twitter on 9/11” (Cord Jefferson, GOOD)
- “The Thousand Yard Stare” (Peter Turnley, The Online Photographer)
Category Archives: Misc
Pay attention to non-violence
In the service…
I walk to work. My commute takes me from up on the hill that much of Northwest DC sits on down to the canyon of K Street and the minor ravines of adjacent streets and offices.
On mornings when I have not bothered with earbuds I am sometimes conscious of the clacking sounds of the hard-soled shoes of my fellow white collar walkers.
Some days I liken this cacophony to a herd of cattle: a somewhat disorganized but driven behavior.
Other times I identify the syncopated crunch of jackboots. A regiment of young lobbyists, lawyers and their professional support staff marching in crisp uniforms to battle, beating back free thought in the service of other interests, while preserving a vocabulary to describe what they do as good. Making words less valuable at great expense seems to be the primary result.