December 2011
232 posts
“I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire...”
– Thomas B. Macaulay (via bedbugss)
United States as a global power: new world... →
kateoplis:
The Guardian Editorial:
The time has long since past when it became fashionable to talk about a new world order. The collapse of the Soviet Union provided an opportunity to fashion one. But instead of using that opportunity to create a new security architecture in Europe, Nato expanded eastwards as the military anchor for democracy promotion. Not content to have seen off one global...
“I think you’d have to go back to the 1850s to find a period of congressional...”
– Daniel Feller, a professor of U.S. history at the University of Tennessee, on today’s Congress compared to the legislators of the past. (via kileyrae)
In that case, the useless Congress failed to address the issue of slavery, which as we know, led to the Civil War. The congress’ of that decade...
Chomsky to Occupy: move to the next stage →
Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are being swept away by police. The occupations were a “brilliant” idea, he says, but now it’s time to “move on to the next stage” in tactics. He suggests political organizing in the neighborhoods.
The Occupy camps have shown people how “to break out of this conception that we’re isolated.” But “just...
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a...”
– Pema Chödrön (via 596600987)
