The State Department has released its “American Documentary Showcase,” which includes…
“The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.â€
Ellsberg responds:
WOW! Hot damn! Sometimes even the current USG comes through — with a show of the old American ideals, still worth fighting for! (Now, if we could get this shown INSIDE the State Department, and the Pentagon and CIA, Camp David… I’d give anything; any ideas?)
Do Bradley Manning and Julian Assange know about this?
Is the AntiWar blog gonna report on the big story of the morning? Ex-Banker in hot water with Swiss authorities giving tax haven privacy info to Julian Assange, at the urging of the Obama administration?
Isn't Wiki supposed to some big left-libertarian heros and all? That's a sticky one for the Ron Paulists. They're all about financial privacy and all. Now we have Julian Assange working directly with Swiss authorities at the behest of Obama regulators, to catch "tax evaders."
Will the Paulists and antiwar faction of the libertarian movement now denounce Assange?
Will you Mr. Dondero and living organisms like you denounce supremacist and Nazi ideology?
from AP/SFGATE article: "Amid WikiLeaks storm, gov't promotes Ellsberg film"
"The films are intended to foster 'understanding and cooperation, dialogue and debate,' it says."
Notice: the State Department "validated" films are intended foster MANY things save the ONE very needful thing–CHANGE of the investor-class-configured status quo. However–HOWEVER–the top-down-capitalist construct CANNOT be rehabilitated, i.e., it is informed solely by greed for individual gain. That's individual gain–even amongst themselves there is an adversarial, cut-throat ethic in play.
The State, as educator John Dewey has pointed out, is merely the shadow cast by Big Business. We on the Left–i.e., the working class–have no interest in engaging in rhetoric with the shill for rentiers, the Fortune 500 CEOs, their consiglieri, or the Banksters. Nor are we interested in token gestures designed to placate American labor–i.e., to keep us pacified and away from the barricades in organized rebellion.
And, what, then do we DEMAND? We want CONCESSIONS, i.e., SUBSTANTIVE CONCESSIONS that will enable us to live apart from the yoke of wage slavery. We want the EFCA bill passed with the card check provision intact, we want a four-day work week, we want the minimum wage DOUBLED, we want single-payer health care. But, please do spare us the DIVERSIONS of films we ought to view to engage in "understanding and cooperation, dialogue and debate." NO MORE TALK–WE WANT ACTION! WE WANT OUR FUCKING LIVES BACK!
AP/SFGATE: http://bit.ly/emIQBX
on the four day work week (CounterPunch): http://www.counterpunch.org/coyle12242010.html
on wage slavery (CounterPunch): http://www.counterpunch.org/manson12282010.html
The showcase is for OTHER countries and the inclusion of the Ellsberg documentary is to create the false impression in those countries that the US has become a more open, democratic and self-reflective country under The Obama. Meanwhile, Bradley Manning continues to be tortured by the US government.
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