<div>Both of these were posted at Common Dreams, a site I visit daily, along with Counterpunch, WSWS, and sometimes a couple of others). First of all there's Chris Hedges, who posted this article yesterday:</div><div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090914_stop_begging_obama_to_be_obama_and_get_mad/">http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090914_stop_begging_obama_to_be_obama_and_get_mad/</a></div><div><br>
</div><div>He's a prominent anti-war voice. This article is a particularly good distillation of the crippling blame-yourself moralism that is so prominent in the movement. He can't conceive of a class enemy that is the source of the violence and war. It's also a good description of how violence-crazed reactionaries are created by war. The existence of these individuals, in addition the spying by the state itself, is good reason to exercise security precautions when involved in movement-type activities (but not to the point that it paralyzes you):</div>
<div><br></div><div>While I'm at it, check out</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/13/why_capitalism_fails/?page=full">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/13/why_capitalism_fails/?page=full</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>which is about Hyman Minsky, an a capitalist economist. When is the last time you saw the headline "Why capitalism fails" in the NYT or its surrogate, the Boston Globe.</div><div><br></div><div>
See you tomorrow night.</div><div><br></div><div>--Ira</div>