Do Not Pity the Democrats
Monday 13 September 2010
by: Chris Hedges | Truthdig | Op-Ed
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, religious institutions and our dysfunctional political parties, which can be considered democratic.... The menace we face does not come from the insane wing of the Republican Party, which may make huge inroads in the coming elections, but the institutions tasked with protecting democratic participation.... Investing emotional and intellectual energy in electoral politics is a waste of time. Resistance means a radical break with the formal structures of American society. We must cut as many ties with consumer society and corporations as possible. We must build a new political and economic consciousness centered on the tangible issues of sustainable agriculture, self-sufficiency and radical environmental reform."
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(Photo: Concentrated Passion)Marijuana "Prohibition" on California's Ballot
Monday 13 September 2010
by: Kevin Zeese | Consortium News | Op-Ed
Note: Families all across America have been touched in one way or another by the 37-year-old drive to eradicate marijuana use. Beyond the prison overcrowding that has resulted, many young people with promising futures have had criminal convictions stuck on their permanent records.
And, while costing the taxpayers' billions of dollars, the prohibition effort has also strengthened organized crime, much as Prohibition on alcohol did nearly a century ago, factors that have led California to consider a retreat in this "war," as "prohibition" opponent Kevin Zeese notes in this guest essay:
Since the founding of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, 15 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana.
That is more people than live in California's 25 largest cities – millions more than live in Ohio, Pennsylvania or Illinois.
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