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I’d like to start with a quote from one my moral and intellectual heroes – the great radical American historian Howard Zinn. “We who protest the war,” Zinn wrote last year, “are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable…It is not easy, in the corrupting atmosphere of Washington, D.C., to hold on firmly to the truth, to resist the temptation of capitulation that presents itself as compromise. Except for the rare few, our representatives are politicians, and will surrender their integrity, claiming to be ‘realistic.’ We are not politicians, but citizens. We have no office to hold on to, only our consciences, which insist on telling the truth. That, history suggests, is the most realistic thing a citizen can do.”
Fellow citizens, fellow American citizens, and fellow world citizens, these are urgent times and they call for solutions that go far beyond anything being proposed by any of our self-appointed saviors and messiahs from within the bipartisan governing and politician class.
STATE-TERRORIST ALLIES IN THE “WAR ON TERROR”
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A “global war on terror” worthy of its name would involve confronting any and all sources of socially imposed terror in the world, including state and economic terror.
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Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of more than ten books and numerous essays. Street has taught U.S. history at numerous of Chicago-area colleges and universities. He was the Director of Research and Vice President for Research and Planning at the Chicago Urban League (from 2000 through 2005), where he published a highly influential grant-funded study: The Vicious Circle: Race, Prison, Jobs and Community in Chicago, Illinois, and the Nation (October 2002).
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