Kuvakwazve kwakasimba kwenzanga pachayo ndiyo nyaya chaiyo inofanira kutarisana nayo.
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Testamende Yetariro,” 1969
Pamwe Chete Tinobudirira
Mukutaura kwake kurangarira vakaurayiwa nemhondi huru Jared Loughner muTucson, Arizona, Barack Obama akatendeukira kuBhaibheri. Pamusangano wekurangarira waiti “Pamwechete Tinokura: Tucson neAmerica,” mutungamiri wenyika akaudza vaichema kuti “Rugwaro runotiudza kuti kune uipi munyika, uye kuti zvinhu zvakaipa zvinoitika nezvikonzero zvisinganzwisisi vanhu.” Achitora mashoko muBhuku raJobho, purezidhendi akaudza vamwe vake vokuAmerica kuti “Zvinhu zvakaipa zvinoitika, uye tinofanira kungwarira tsananguro dzakapfava pashure. Hapana mumwe wedu anogona kuziva chakonzera kurwiswa kwacho kana kuti chii chaigona kuitwa kuti zvisaitika.” Akaramba vanofambira mberi vanonongedza kune basa rekurudyi-bapiro pfungwa mukukurudzira kuurayiwa kweTucson. Akadana "mwero wakanaka wekuzvininipisa, pane kungonongedza zvigunwe uye kupa mhosva." Akapa zano vaAmerica ku“rodza masikirwo edu etsitsi,” kuratidza “mutsa netsitsi” zvikuru, uye kubvunza “kana zvatinoisa pokutanga zvakafanira.”
Haisi kuwana yakawanda vapid kupfuura izvozvo. Hapana chinhu chisinganzwisisike kana chinonyanya kushamisa pamusoro pekurwiswa kwaLoughner paDemocratic congressperson uye mutongi wemubatanidzwa. Loughner iFascist isina kugadzikana anogara munharaunda isina kuenzana, ine hunhu, uye isina kuchengeteka nzanga inoparadzira ruvengo uye mameseji eparanoid mubapiro rekurudyi media empire. Nzanga iyoyo haina mutemo wakanaka wehutano hwepfungwa uye inoita kuti zvombo zvinouraya zviwanikwe kuvanhu vakavhiringidzika uye vane ngozi. Loughner akaonekwa asina kugadzikana mupfungwa kuti aende kukoreji yenharaunda kana kujoinha Mauto eUS, asi haana kunetseka kutenga Glock handgun nemagazini inotenderera makumi matatu nematatu. Anogara munyika inodzorwa neamoral business elite yanga ichiparadza hupenyu hweAmerica uye ichidzinga nhamba dzisingaverengeki dzevashandi uye vepakati vanhu kubva mupfungwa dzavo kwemakumi emakore. Boka revanodyara mari harina basa kuruzhinji rwevagari vemuAmerica, mamirioni gumi nemashanu avo havachashandi zviri pamutemo (nhamba chaiyo yevasina basa nekuzvidira yakakwira zvakanyanya) - nhamba huru kubva paKuderera Kukuru.
"Pamwechete tinobudirira." Mhoro? Arizona ine yechipiri yepamusoro-soro yehurombo pakati penyika makumi mashanu, inokatyamadza 50 muzana (chaiyo yehurumende kana yekushanda kwehurombo hunopfuura 21.2 muzana) uye Tucson ine hurombo hwakanyanya kupfuura chero guta renyika. Vasingasviki hafu (45 muzana) yevagari vemuArizona vane inishuwarenzi yehutano yakazvimirira, uye chikamu chimwe muzvishanu chevagari vehurumende, vanopfuura mamirioni 1.3, vanoshaya hutano hwemhando ipi zvayo. Dzimba dzinopfuura zviuru makumi manomwe dzakavharirwa muArizona muna 70,000, kubva pa2010 chete muna 1,000. Kana paine chinhu chimwe chete Tucson neArizona zvanga zvisati zvamboitwa munguva pfupi yapfuura chiri "kubudirira." Sekureva kwazvino mishumo, Loughner anga asina kuwana mubhadharo mumwedzi mitanhatu. Akanga adzingwa pamabasa mashanu uye akazadza zvikumbiro zvebasa panzvimbo dzinodarika makumi matanhatu dzinotambira mari shoma.
Kana Munhu wese Akatakura Pfuti
Mukati medambudziko iri, vezvenhau vakaoma uye vezvematongerwo enyika vanofarira Glenn Beck anoraira vanhu vane pfungwa dzisina kusimba uye pfungwa dzakakuvadzwa kuti "vaite izvozvi" (zvisati zvanyanya kunonoka) kupesana ne "hudzvanyiriri hwesocialist" - kutonga kwekodzero kunotora Obama's state-capitalist neoliberalism. Zvombo zvinouraya, zvemazuva ano-zvinoparadza vanhu zvinomhanya zvakasununguka, sekupenga uye ruvengo pamhepo neInternet, uko pfungwa isina musoro yekuti centrist, maDemocrats ane hushamwari emakambani vavengi veMarxist verusununguko uye budiriro. fare. America chimwe chinhu che "Armed Madhouse," kuba zita rebhuku kubva kuna Greg Palast, sezvakakurudzirwa mukutaura kunotonhora mushure mekuuraya kubva kumumiriri wenyika yeTea Party Jack Harper (R-Arizona). “Apo munhu ari wose anenge akatakura pfuti,” Harper akazivisa kudaro, “hapana achava nyajambwa.” Hongu, isu tose - vakadzi, varume, vakomana, nevasikana (mumwe wevakapondwa naLoughner aive mugiredhi wechitatu anonzi Christina Taylor Green) tisunge zvombo neammo pamberi perwendo rwese rwekuchitoro kana chitoro chekofi. Gore rapfuura Harper akaendesa bhiri kudare reparamende reArizona raizobvumira nhengo dzevadzidzisi kutakura pfuti kumayunivhesiti. Kugamuchirwa kusango kumadokero. “Rally 'round yo mhuri yako nehomwe yemateko” (Rage Against the Machine).
Hurukuro yaObama yaive yekuyedza kuvhara kudzamisa kusawirirana kwevanhu uye kuratidza mufananidzo wakafukidzwa neshuga weUnited States' ine muchetura, paranoid, uye ruvengo- uye pfuti-yakapindwa muropa netsika yezvematongerwo enyika. Haana kutaura nezvematambudziko chaiwo uye akadzama akatarisana nevanhu vekuAmerica-kushaikwa kwemabasa akawanda, kuwandisa kwehupfumi hukuru uye urombo hwakawanda munyika yakabudirira kwazvo isina kuenzana (nyika iyo vepamusoro 1 muzana vane hupfumi hwakawanda kupfuura pasi 90 muzana) , njodzi yezvakatipoteredza iri kuramba ichiwedzera, kutonga kwemakambani kwenhepfenyuro nezvematongerwo enyika, kuparara kuri kuramba kuchiita magariro evanhu, uye umambo hwemauto hunodhura zvikuru huri kuramba huchiita hondo dzematsotsi zviri pachena uye pachivande, nezvimwewo. Mutungamiriri wenyika haana kutaura nezve kuderedzwa kwemutero kwevapfumi, zvakapfuura apo manejimendi nekongiresi vakaramba danho raidiwa nekukurumidza kupa mabasa kune vasingashande, kupedza hurombo, uye kubvisa hurumende dzematunhu nedzenzvimbo.
Ini pachangu ndakashamisika kuti hapasati pave nezvimwe zviitiko zvakaita senjodzi yeTucson muArmed Madhouse mumakore mashoma apfuura. Sokutaura kwakaita Patrick Martin paWorld Socialist Web Site mazuva mashoma apfuura: “Mumamiriro ezvinhu enzanga ye<em>capitalist inobata nevasina mabasa—uye vanorwara nepfungwa—mumafambiro asina ushamwari uye outsinye, uye boka rinotonga rinorumbidza chisimba nokuriita. zvakapararira uye zvine hutsinye kupfuura chero ipi zvayo pasi pano, zviitiko zvakaita sezvakaitika Ndira 8 muTucson hazvidzivisiki.” (Ona Patrick Martin, “Obama muTucson: Kupa Ruregerero kuBapiro Rorudyi,” World Socialist Web Site [ Ndira 13, 2011]at http://wsws.org/articles/2011/
Mitemo yeGoridhe
Mutsara waMartin wezvemhirizhonga unondiyeuchidza mutsara waDr. Martin Luther King, Jr, ane zuva rekuzvarwa ratinopemberera mangwana (ndiri kunyora musi weSvondo, Ndira 16, 2011). Musi waApril 4, 1967, gore chairo asati aurayiwa kana kuurayiwa, Mambo akawana kuzvidzwa kweAmerican kugadzwa nekuva nehunhu hwekucherekedza - pakukwirira kweUnited States. "kurovererwa kweSouth East Asia" (izwi rakanaka raNoam Chomsky rekurwiswa kweumambo hweAmerica kwakauraya vanopfuura mamirioni matatu mudunhu iri pakati pa3 na1962) - kuti Sekuru Sam ndivo vaive "mutungamiri anotungamira mhirizhonga munyika." Tsanangudzo ichiri kuenderana ne44 makore gare gare munguva iyo US inoshandisa mari inodarika bhiriyoni yemadhora pagore pa "kuzvidzivirira," inoverengera inenge hafu yemarudzi 'mashandisirwo ehondo uye inochengetedza zvinopfuura 1000 zvigadziko zvemauto zvakapararira kupfuura nyika dze120. Zvichakadaro, tichiratidza izvo mukupera kwema1960 Mambo akadana kuti "zvakashata zvekutanga zvenyika," hukuru uye huri kuramba huchikura hwezvido zvemagariro hazvigoneke mu "nyika" yehumambo - inofungidzirwa kuti dzimbahwe repasi rose rerusununguko uye democracy, "chiedza chepasirese." yenzira iyo hupenyu hunofanira kuve" (Seneta weUS Kay Bailey Hutchinson,R-TX).
Mutungamiriri uye vashoma vezvenhau uye vezvematongerwo enyika vari kudaidzira "Nguva Itsva Yemagariro." Vari kushandisa hutsinye hweLoughner kudzikamisa hasha dzevagari - kuregeredza kusagutsikana chaiko uye kuri pamutemo kwakakurumbira. Ini handina chimwe chinhu kunze kwekuzvidza kusiri pamutemo kune avo vanoisa hunhu hwe "kusagadzikana" pakati pemunhu ane kodzero ane pfuti anorwisa mukuru wehurumende kana chimiro uye asina pfuti anorwa hondo anofora anoimba zvine musoro "Hei Obama, unoti kudii, vangani vana vawakauraya. nhasi?”
Uye hazvisi kusvota here kuwana hurukuro dzeGandhi pamusoro pekusaita mhirizhonga uye hunhu kubva kumutungamiri anonaya mabhomba uye anopotsera mabhomba pamapati emuchato, vana, nemisha muAfghanistan, Pakistan, neSomalia? Ndinoyeuchidzwa nezvemumwe purezidhendi anotaura Magwaro uyo anesimba guru reunyengeri rinotenderera paMutemo weGoridhe (“itira vamwe sezvaunoda kuti vakuitire iwe”). Bill Clinton akawedzera kutaura uye nemisodzi-ziso pakuda kwetsitsi dzerudo uye kuporeswa mushure mekupfurwa kwechikoro cheColumbine (Kubvumbi 20, 1999). Zvichakadaro aibhomba Serbia nemhosva (pakati paKurume 24 naChikumi 11, 1999) uye achienderera mberi ne "zvirango zvehupfumi" zvakauraya vanopfuura miriyoni yeIraqi mukati me1990s.
Pane mumwe mutemo wegoridhe: "avo vane mutemo wegoridhe." Munguva yemushandirapamwe weCaucus yeIowa, mumiriri weDemocratic Alliance, John Edwards aigara achitaura kuti shanduko huru inofambira mberi haingambofa yakazadzikiswa pasina "kurwa kukuru nehupfumi nesimba rakawanda" (zvinoratidzika kunge zvisina chokwadi kuti Edwards aishuvira kurwa ikoko). Vakarwisa zviri pachena uye zvisina hunhu Hillary Clinton naBarack Obama se“corporate Democrats” uye vakanyomba pfungwa yaObama yekuti “Kumbaya” yekuti zvibereko zvakanaka zvinogona kuuya kubva “kugara pasi patafura huru yekutaurirana nemakambani nemaRepublicans. VaObama vakahwina mapoinzi nevemakambani emari yemushandirapamwe uye vezvenhau nekuramba rhetoric yaEdward seyakajairika, vachipokana mugakava reDes Moines kuti "hatidi kupisa kwakawanda, tinoda mwenje wakawanda." Takaona kuti avo vakamuunza "chiedza" ndivanaani - ivo vakafanana neWall Street nePentagon vatongi vakamhanyisa nyika pasi pasi peGeorge W. Bush. Kudzidzisa mhomho pamusoro pekudiwa kwehutsika uku uchigadzira mutemo wakamiririra vapfumi nevane simba pa "Hurumende [Goldman] Sachs" mutambo wakashata.
Zvakatsauka Zvinokosha
Mutsara waVaObama wekutora "zvatinokoshesa muhurongwa" unomutsa mibvunzo isingafadze nezve gwara remutemo pasi pehutongi hwake. Chirevo chechangobva kuitika kubva kuNational Priorities Project (inotora zita rayo chikamu kubva mumutsara waDr. King) ine ruzivo runotevera.
* New York state ine 128,128 Head Start (federally subsidized pre-school) -vana vanokodzera, asi chete 48,013 Head Start nzvimbo. Kune chikamu cheNew York chegore rino rekushandisa muAfghan War, nyika inogona kupa mari nzvimbo dzeHead Start dzevana vese vanokodzera kwemakore makumi maviri nerimwe.
* Wisconsin ine 527,000 vagari vasina kuchengetedzwa. Kune Wisconsin's cumulative Afghan Hondo yekushandisa, iyo nyika inogona kupa inishuwarenzi kune vese vasina inishuwarenzi kwemakore matatu.
* Nyika yeWashington inoshandisa 1,168,531 Billion British thermal units (BBtu) yesimba risingadzokeri uye chete 881,676 (BBtu) simba rinogadziriswa. Kune chikamu cheWashington chekuwedzera kushandiswa kwehondo yeAfghan neIraq, inogona kubhadhara 23% yemutengo wekushandura simba rose risingadzokerike kuita simba rezuva kana 79% kushandura kusimba remhepo.
* PaYunivhesiti yeNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill, iyo North Carolina mugove wemari yakazara yehondo ($ 34 bhiriyoni) yaizobhadhara mari yese yepasi-yedzidzo yemakore mana yekirasi yega yega inouya nyowani kwemakore anotevera 135.
* Kusvika pari zvino, $815 bhiriyoni yemadhora yakagoverwa kuhondo muIraq kubvira 2003 uye $445.1 mabhiriyoni emadhora yakagoverwa kuhondo muAfghanistan kubvira 2001.
Ndinoyeuchidzwa nezvenyevero yaDr. Martin Luther King yaibva kuRiverside Church yeNew York City musi waApril 4, 1967. “Nyika inopedza mari yakawanda pakuzvidzivirira kwemauto kupfuura kuita zvirongwa zvekusimudzira nzanga,” King akanyevera kudaro, “yava kusvika. kufa pamweya. "
Chinhu chakadai seKunonoka
Kubatanidzwa kweNational Priorities Project kwechipo chepakati pakutengeserana pakati pemari yemauto uye kushandisa mari pasimba rinodzokororwa kunondiyeuchidza nezvechimwe chinhu chakataurwa naDr. King musi waApril 4, 1967. “Iye zvino tatarisana nechokwadi chokuti mangwana ndinhasi, ” Mambo vakadaro. "Takatarisana nekukurumidzira kunotyisa ikozvino. Muchikanganiso chiri kuitika ichi cheupenyu pane chinhu chakadai sokunonoka…Pamusoro pemapfupa akatsvuka uye nekugara pamwe chete kwemarudzi akawanda ebudiriro pakanyorwa mashoko anosiririsa: 'Tanonoka.'”
Chero ani zvake anokahadzika kukosha kwekutaura ikoko nhasi anofanirwa kutarisa iro rakanyanya kukosha bhuku rakaburitswa gore rapfuura: Bill McKibben's. Pasi: Kuita Upenyu Panyika Itsva Yakaoma (New York, 2010). Shanduko yemamiriro ekunze (yakaitwa nevanhu) inogadzirwa nevemazuva ano petro-capitalism uye inoenderana nekukura kwevapfumi Vashoma haingounze matambudziko makuru kune "vazukuru vedu." Shanduko huru yakashata muhukuru hwemapuraneti maitiro uye chiitiko - yakanyanyisa mamiriro ekunze, mafashama, kupisa, kutemwa kwemasango, kuparara kwegwenga, kusanaya kwemvura, kukukurwa kwevhu, mvura uye kuwanikwa kwechikafu, kupona kwemarudzi, bacteriology, uye nezvimwe - hazvisisirizvo zvisingadzivisiki. Dzave kutoitika. Iyo eco-apocalypse yakagadzirwa neiyo purofiti system iri kuitika izvozvi. Kudiwa kwekupindira kwevanhu kwanga kwatove kwechimbichimbi apo Mutungamiri Jimmy Carter (uyo akaitisa musangano weWhite House weanopokana nekukura eco-eco-economist EF Schumacher) akaedza nenzira yake isina kusimba kunyevera vanhu vekuAmerica kuti vasiye "kusava nechinhu pamweya" uye njodzi yekuzvi "kuzvibata". -kufarira uye kushandisa" - "kuva nezvinhu" uye "kuunganidza zvinhu zvenyama" mukutsvaga zvimwe zvisingaperi. Zvino, McKibben anoratidza, isu takamirira kwenguva yakareba. “Nyika yedu yekare yakajairika iri kuerekana yanyunguduka, kuoma, kuita acidify, mafashamo, uye kupisa zvisina kumboonekwa nemunhu. Isu takagadzira, muchidimbu, nyika itsva, ichiri kuzivikanwa asi yakasiyana zvakanyanya. Tinogona zvakare kuidaidza kuti Earth…Ichi,” McKibben anorangarira, “ndicho chinhu chikuru kwazvo chati chamboitika munhoroondo yevanhu. Mafashamo achangobva kuitika uye arikuenderera mberi muAustralia neBrazil anongova chiratidzo chekupedzisira chekuchinja kukuru kuri kuitika. Yave nguva refu yapfuura yekuchinja kunoshamisa kune post-carbon economy
Makore makumi mana nematatu apfuura, murondedzero yakabudiswa pashure pokunge afa yainzi “Testamende Yetariro,” Dr. King vakaratidza kuti America nenyika zvakanga zvichitambudzwa ne“zvine hurongwa kwete [kungori] zvikanganiso zvechipameso” zvichiratidza kuti “kuvakazve kwakasimba kwenzanga pachayo ndiko nyaya chaiyo inofanira kutarisana nayo.” Nemhaka yokudziya kwepasi rose, tatova munguva yokuwedzera yenhau.
Paul Street (www.paulstreet.org)ndiye munyori wezvinyorwa zvakawanda, zvitsauko, hurukuro, uye mabhuku, kusanganisira Humambo uye Kusaenzana: America neNyika Kubva 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008; Kudzvinyirirwa Kwemarudzi muGlobal Metropolis (New York:Rowman & Littlefield, 2007; Zvikoro Zvakapatsanurwa: Dzidzo yerusaruraganda munguva yePost-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Barack Obama uye Ramangwana reAmerican Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); uye The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama muNyika Chaiyo Yemasimba (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2010). Bhuku rake rinotevera Kupwanya Bato reTea: Misa Media uye Mushandirapamwe Wekugadzirisa Zvematongerwo enyika zveAmerica (yakanyorwa pamwe naAnthony Dimaggio) ichaburitswa muna Chivabvu anotevera. Anogona kusvikwa pa [email inodzivirirwa]