New Abolitionists: announcing a new world without war, poverty or nuclear weapons, a new world of nonviolence
Don't give up
Common Dreams
by John Dear
05/21/06
One of the casualties of this culture of violence, injustice and war is the loss of our imagination. People across the country can not even imagine a world without war, poverty or nuclear weapons. But that is our job. We are like our ancestors, the Abolitionists, who came along and announced an astonishing, breathtaking new vision, a world without slavery, the equality of everyone on earth. We are their heirs, New Abolitionists, announcing a new world without war, poverty or nuclear weapons, a new world of nonviolence...
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0521-20.htm
A new liberty now
LewRockwell.Com
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
05/20/06
There are many varieties of libertarianism alive in the world today, but Rothbardianism remains the center of its intellectual gravity, its primary muse and conscience, its strategic and moral core, and the focal point of debate even when its name is not acknowledged. The reason is that Murray Rothbard was the creator of modern libertarianism, a political-ideological system that proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the trappings of left and right and their central plans for how state power should be used. Libertarianism is the radical alternative that says state power is unworkable and immoral...
http://tinyurl.com/j5nvo
The eternal value of privacy
Wired
by Bruce Schneier
05/18/06
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance. ... Too many wrongly characterize the debate as 'security versus privacy.' The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide...
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70886-0.html?tw=wn_index_15
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Common Dreams
by John Dear
05/21/06
One of the casualties of this culture of violence, injustice and war is the loss of our imagination. People across the country can not even imagine a world without war, poverty or nuclear weapons. But that is our job. We are like our ancestors, the Abolitionists, who came along and announced an astonishing, breathtaking new vision, a world without slavery, the equality of everyone on earth. We are their heirs, New Abolitionists, announcing a new world without war, poverty or nuclear weapons, a new world of nonviolence...
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0521-20.htm
A new liberty now
LewRockwell.Com
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
05/20/06
There are many varieties of libertarianism alive in the world today, but Rothbardianism remains the center of its intellectual gravity, its primary muse and conscience, its strategic and moral core, and the focal point of debate even when its name is not acknowledged. The reason is that Murray Rothbard was the creator of modern libertarianism, a political-ideological system that proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the trappings of left and right and their central plans for how state power should be used. Libertarianism is the radical alternative that says state power is unworkable and immoral...
http://tinyurl.com/j5nvo
The eternal value of privacy
Wired
by Bruce Schneier
05/18/06
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance. ... Too many wrongly characterize the debate as 'security versus privacy.' The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide...
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70886-0.html?tw=wn_index_15
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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