[Oct. 17 Seattle] two articles worth reading

[ira jones]

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:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090914_stop_begging_obama_to_be_obama_and_get_mad/

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):

While I'm at it, check out

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/13/why_capitalism_fails/?page=full

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.

See you tomorrow night.

--Ira
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