Obviously, one blurred video shouldn’t sway us one way or the other in determining who used chemical weapons in Damascus last August–but as a public deprived of almost all information, this is as close as we can get to the smoking gun. For now, at least.
From creator Mark Fiore: “You know the Internet is in trouble when people start taking plane flights to deliver messages. After Glenn Greenwald’s partner was detained for nine hours and stripped of all his computer gear, it’s clearly time to look at new ways of communicating.”
Say what you will about the Kentucky firebrand, Paul sure knows how to drive his point home. To David Gregory:
“[John Kerry] is famous for saying, you know, how can you ask a man to be the last one to die for a mistake? I would ask John Kerry how can you ask a man to be the first one to die for a mistake?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUwBc-GvFFM
In Chomsky’s eyes, education does not train you to think critically; rather, it teaches you how to obey.
Well, we already know that the GOP–some of whom are gunning for regime change in Syria–refuses to raise taxes on the wealthy to recoup for increased spending should we go to war. Who will have to suffer, then? Likely those who have already suffered the most the past decade: the working poor.
