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Today's
Stories
January 7,
2008
Chris Floyd
There
Will Be Blood: But No Justice for Iraq Atrocities
Uri Avnery
The Case of the White Bird
Andy Worthington
Who Are the Gitmo Saudis?
January 5 /
6, 2008
Douglas Valentine
Good
Guys in Black Hoods
Kevin Young
The
US Occupation and Popular Opinion in Iraq
Richard Rhames
Saddam
Who?
Saul Landau
Bush Snatches Defeat from Victory
Marc Lynch
Why Bush's Iran Strategy is Failing
Robert Fantina
Iowa, Democrats and the Iraq War
Donna Volatile
Antiwar Soldier: an Interview with Jonathan Hutto, Sr.
Jelle Bruinsma
Norman Finkelstein in The Netherlands
Bob Sutcliffe
Remembering Andrew Glyn, Rebel Economist
Harvey Wasserman
Anti-Nuclear Renaissance
Missy Beattie
Why Obama Can't Save Us
David Swanson
Remembering the Separation of Powers
Jacob Hornberger
The Importance of the Padilla Case
Shepherd Bliss
Survival Tools from Kokopelli Farms
Ron Jacobs
Bleeding Kansas
Poets' Basement
Patti Smith, B.R. Gowani and Peter Buknatski
Website of the Weekend
Jimmy Dean Sausage Call Complaint
January 4,
2008
Cockburn /
St. Clair
A
Good Night in Iowa
Jonathan Cook
War Crimes Airbrushed from History
Paul Craig Roberts
Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime
Stan Goff
Ron Paul's Monkeywrench
Dave Lindorff
Clinton's Iowa Flop Exposes DLC Myths as Frauds
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
To Pindi Station
Allan Nairn
U.S. Elections Over Before They Began
Joshua Frank
The Failures of Sectarianism
Peter Morici
Economy on the Skids
Mary McInnis
Iowa Cocky-Us: How to be a Caucus Tease
Website of the Day
The Return of Obama Girl
January 3,
2008
Fatima Bhutto
Farewell
to Wadi Bua
Pam Martens
The
Free Market Myth Dissolves into Chaos
Joanne Mariner
The Presidential Candidates and Torture
Zoltan Grossman
Remember the '80s: Social Movements Between Woodstock and the
Web
David Domke
The Echoing Press and Huckabee
Norman Solomon
Edwards Reconsidered
Nikolas Kozloff
Return of the Faux Liberal
Jacob G. Hornberger
The Padilla Case and the Future of Habeas Corpus
Martha Rosenberg
Quit Picking on Huckabee's Son, Michael Vick
Russell Means
This Property is Condemned: a Notice to Those Occupying Lakotah
Lands
Website of the Day
WolfQuest
January 2,
2008
Jeff Taylor
The
Left and Ron Paul
M. Shahid Alam
The Life and Death of Benazir Bhutto: a Pakistani Tragedy
Gary Leupp
Madness Compounding Madness: Calls for Intervention in Pakistan
Paul Craig Roberts
Criminals with Badges
Heather Gray
Georgia's Racist Death Penalty
Fred Gardner
and Shobhit Arora
Dr. Strangelove's Nemesis
David Macaray
Labor Unions and Taft-Hartley
Benjamin Dangl
Fear and Loathing in Bolivia
January 1,
2008
Iain A. Boal
City
of Disappearances
B. R. Gowani
Benazir's Death in Crisistan
Shahid Mahmood
Bhutto and the Press
Linn Washington,
Jr.
Old Injustices Endure: From Crack Sentences to Racial Profiling
Harvey Wasserman
Taking Leonard Peltier to Iowa: the Moral Low Point of the Clinton
Era
John Ross
2008, Already a Year to Forget
Website of the Day
The Thrill is Gone: BB and Gladys
December 31,
2007
Alexander Cockburn
Goodbye
2007 and Good Riddance!
Tariq Ali
Pakistan, the Aftermath
Liaquat Ali Khan
The Perfidy of Pakistan's Rulers
Wajahat Ali
After Bhutto, a Nuclear Pakistan?
Robert Fisk
Who Killed Bhutto?
Ajai Sahni
Myths and Realities About Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan's Dark
Future
Marwan Bishara
You Say Talk, I Say Attack: The Middle East and the US Presidential
Election Campaigns
Uri Avnery
The Beilin Syndrome
Mark T. Harris
Does This Happen in Canada?
Brenda Norrell
Resistance and Censorship
Website of the Day
A People United Will Never Be Defeated
December 29
/ 30, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Options
in America: Kill Yourself or Have a Baby
Tariq Ali
Indignation and Fear Stalk Pakistan
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
My Encounter with Benazir Bhutto
Gary Leupp
The U.S. and Pakistan After 9/11: Blowback from an Unholy Alliance
China Hand
Pakistan Stares Into the Abyss
Jacob Hornberger
Stop Medddling in Pakistan
John Chuckman
Pakistan and the Failure of Quick-Fix Politics
Missy Beattie
Evaluating Bush with the Bhutto Corruption Standard
Ralph Nader
Who Will Take the Next Step?
Fidel Castro
There Hasn't Been a Day in My Life When I Haven't Learned Something
Robert Fantina
The Sham of Homeland Security
Greg Moses
Beauty from the Heart of Texas
Catherine Lutz
What We Can Not See: Art and Bombing
Kristin Van
Tassel
Seeing in the Dark
Kim Nicolini
Redacted: Brian DePalma's Scream of Outrage
Phyllis Pollack
Keith Richards Runs With Rudolph Once More
Poets' Basement
Landau, Gibbons and Davies
Website of
the Weekend
Driving Karachi in Search of the Perfect Naan
December 28,
2007
Farzana Versey
The
Complex Electra
Wajahat Ali
A
Pakistani Requiem
Binoy Kampmark
Death in Rawalpindi: Bhutto and Her Legacy
Ayesha Ijaz
Khan
Not Dead Yet: The Pakistan People's Party Still Survives
Anthony DiMaggio
Turkey's Bombing of Iraq
Ray McGovern
Creeping
Fascism
Jim Goodman
Biofuels, the Biggest Scam Going
Ron Jacobs
Transcending the Colonizer's History: Iran, a People Interrupted
Russell Hoffman
Mini-Nukes by Toshiba
John Murphy
Greens Gone Wild
Website of the Day
Guiliani Campaign Official: "Only Rudy Can Defeat the Muslims"
December 27,
2007
Dilip Hiro
A
Tragedy Foretold: Will Bhutto's Death be a Boost for Her Party?
Murtaza Shibli
Who Killed Bhutto?
Stephen Soldz
Fallujah,
the Information War and U.S. Propaganda
Bill Quigley
Locked
Outside the Gates
Paul Craig Roberts
The Great American Lock-Up
Omer Subhani
Killing Bhutto: What Happens Next in Pakistan?
Marjorie Cohn
The Torture Tape Cover-Up: How High Does It Go?
Allan Nairn
Cataclysm By Money Whim
Jacob G. Hornberger
Smearing Ron Paul: Shame on the NYT
Norman Solomon
Channeling Suze Orman
Patrick Irelan
Rumsfeld Spills the Ink
Ben Tripp
Pass the Razor Blades
Website of the Day
Quagmire, For What It's Worth
December 26, 2007
Charles Tripp
From
One Saddam to Fifty
Paul Armentano
No-Knock, You're Dead
Rannie Amiri
Lebanon in Search of a Government
Stanley Heller
Brzezinski and Charlie Wilson's War
John Walsh
Two Unreasonable Men
Martha Rosenberg
The Strange Career of Scott Gottlieb
Norman Madarasz
Bolivia Amends New Constitution and Faces Mutiny from Within
Website of
the Day
Cockburn at the Battle of Ideas
December 25,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
Conscience
and Empire
December 24,
2007
Andrea Peacock
A
Dark Ride on the Border
Tariq Ali
Thinking of Edward Said
Uri Avnery
Help! A Ceasefire!
Jill Jameson
Burma is Not Back to Normal: A Trip from Rangoon to Mae Sot
Steve Melendez
Russell Means Goes to Washington
Mike Whitney
The Big Fix
Chuck Munson
Not Getting It About New Orleans
John Walsh
Clueless Crusaders
Farzana Versey
Tony Blair and the Hawking of Religion
Richard Neville
Dreaming of a White House Christmas
Website of the Day
Back in the USSR
December 22 / 23, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
Mike
Huckabee's Ascending Chariot
Ralph Nader
Politics
and Profits: How the Oil Cartel Gets Its Way
Andy Worthington
Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons
in Afghanistan
Ahmad Faruqui
The Comedian of Pakistan
Bill Moyers
Society on Steroids
Rev. William
E. Alberts
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Timothy J. Freeman
From Kant to Lennon: Can War Really be Over?
Anthony DiMaggio
Democrats Continue to Capitulate on Iraq
Fred Gardner
Molecule of the Year, Cannabiodiol
Paul Krassner
Enhanced Hazing Techniques
Seth Sandronsky
17 Years of Meanness: Repealing California's Three Strikes Law
William Loren
Katz
Christmas Eve Freedom Fighters: Recalling the Battle of Lake
Okeechobee
Michael Dickinson
In the Dungeon of the Zabita
Ron Jacobs
Why Leon Russell Still Matters
David Vest
Doyle Bramhall's "Is It News?"
Poets' Basement
Orloski, Davies and Ford
Website of the Weekend
George W. Hates Santa
December 21,
2007
John Ross
New Massacres Loom in Mexico
Jacob Hornberger
Nothing Can Morally Justify the Invasion of Iraq
Dick J. Reavis
A
Way Out of the Newspaper Abyss
Jeff Cohen
and Norman Solomon
The 2007 P.U.-litzer Prizes
Peter Morici
Business as Usual as Recession Looms
Jack McCarthy
Let Us Now Praise Judith Regan (Even If She Did Sleep with Bernie
Kerik)
Raúl Zibechi
Sex and Revolution
Steve Early
How the Presidential Candidates Made Me an Atheist
David Macaray
Union Aftermath
Patrick Bond
Zuma, the Center-Left and the Left-Left in S. Africa
Lakota Freedom Delegation
A Declaration of Independence from the USA
Website of
the Day
Solomon v. Beck: Tale of the Tape
December 20,
2007
David Rosen
Mitt
Romney's Secret Life as a Pornographer
Alan Farago
The
Huckster and the Wreckage: Jeb Bush and the Subprime Mortgage
Crisis
Laura Carlsen
Standing Up to NAFTA
Ashley Dawson
The Return of the Bread Riot
Wayne Smith
and Jennifer Schuett
Cuba Changes, US Policy Stagnates
Website of
the Day
How to Talk to a FoxNews Reporter
December 19,
2007
Saul Landau
Is
the NIE Bush's Watergate?
Paul W. Lovinger
Hillary the Hawk
Norman Solomon
The Mad Corporate World of Glenn Beck
Dave Zirin
George Mitchell's Drugs of Choice
Marjorie Cohn
Bush Still Spinning Iranian Nukes
Sen. Russell
Feingold
The Iraq War is Exhausting Our Nation
Sonja Karkar
A Christmas Reflection on Palestine
Anthony Papa
Open the Drug Gulags
Christopher Ketcham
Pave the Holy Lands with Good Intentions
Davey D
Britney's Little Sister is Pregnant: Should We Blame Hip Hop?
Website of
the Day
When Republicans Use the F-Word on TV
December 18,
2007
R. F. Blader
The
Politics of Teen Pregnancy
George Wuerthner
Gunning for Wolves in Idaho
Steven Higgs
Can the NAFTA Superhighway be Stopped?
Vijay Prashad
Encounters with Ghadar
David Macaray
The Free Rider Problem
Ralph Nader
Nine Books That Make a Difference: a Reading List for the Holidays
Eva Liddell
Privatizing War Abroad, Invading Privacy at Home
Martha Rosenberg
While the Bodies are Still Warm: Drugs, Shrinks and Shooters
Dave Lindorff
When Impeachment is Out of Print
Peter Morici
The Consequences the Trade Deficit
Website of
the Day
Ron Paul: How Fascism Will Come to America
December 17,
2007
Mike Whitney
Staring
Into the Abyss
Tom Barry
Planning
the War on Immigrants
Uri Avnery
A
Gaza Masada?
Greg Moses
Crossing the Line in Texas
Allan Nairn
Terrorism; Counter-
Terrorism: Excuses for Murder
Patrick Bond
South Africa's Fight Between Hostile Brothers
Stephen Lendman
Police State America
Charles Jonkel
Grizzly Right of Way
Laray Polk
An Inside-Out Crisis in Gaza
Stephen Fleischman
Pawns in Their Game
December 15
/ 16, 2007
Peter Linebaugh
A
People's Penny for the Magna Carta
Howard Zinn
Bomb After Bomb
Standard Schaefer
The Greening of Big Tobacco
Raymond J.
Lawrence
Let's Take Christ Out of Christmas
Alan Farago
Down on Desolation Row: the Vultures and the Growth Machine
Saul Landau
Lord Byron and the Bad Tourists
Jenna Orkin
Lying to "Reassure" the Public: Bush's EPA and the
Post-9/11 Toxic Air Cover-Up
Ahmad Samih
Khalidi
Why a Palestinian "State" is a Punitive Construct
Robert Fantina
Politics By Photo-Op
Missy Comley
Beattie
Resistance Amid the Ruins
Ramzy Baroud
Of Mormons and Muslims
James L. Secor
A Vision for China's Future
Elijah Wald
Ike Turner's Music Won't be Forgotten
Website of
the Weekend
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies Needs (and Deserves) Your Support
December 14,
2007
JoAnn Wypijewski
The
Dirty Cad: What Giuliani's Sex Life Tells Us About Him
John Ross
Iraqi
Refugees Return: One Cruel Hoax
Jacob Hornberger
Terror Suspects Belong in Federal Court
Andy Worthington
Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: What Happened?
Allan Nairn
"Shoot Them on the Spot": Rewarding War Crimes
Dave Zirin
The Mitchell Report: Absolving the Owners
Dave Lindorff
The First Cut is the Deepest
Misty MacDuffee
Toxic Grizzlies
Ben Terrall
What Happened to Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine?
Dr. Mustafa
Barghouthi
Prerequisites for Peace
Website of the Day
Sen. Kit Bond: "Waterboarding is Like Swimming"
December 13,
2007
Paul Craig
Roberts
Shrinking
the Dollar from the Inside-Out
Mike Whitney
Dershowitz for the Defense--of Waterboarding
Ron Jacobs
Blank Check DemocratsL the Great War Funding Conspiracy
Norman Solomon
The USA's Human Rights Daze
Peter Morici
The Dragon and the Toothless Dog: China Doesn't Flinch
Sandy Mayes
Blocking the Strykers: 13 Days of War Resistance at Port Olympia
Franklin Lamb
The UN in Lebanon: Whose Mission Is It Fulfilling?
Jacob Hornberger
Don't Reform the CIA, Abolish It
Nadim Rouhana
An Interloper in My Own Land
Dave Zirin
On Pigskin and Petrol
Website of the Day
Rachel's Needs (and Deserves) Your Support!
December 12, 2007
Allan
Nairn
US Intelligence is Tapping Indonesian
Phones
Alan
Farago
How Sprawl Eats Its Young
Ray
McGovern
Torture, Lies and Videotape
Winslow
T. Wheeler
The Phony Pentagon Budget Cuts
Evan
Jones
The Raid on Great Western: Why an Australian Bank Might Spell
Doom for the US Farm Belt
James
Petras
An Open Letter to Sarkozy on the Exchange of Political Prisonsers
Joel
Hirschorn
The Horserace Fiction: Clinton, Obama and the Democratic Machine
Joshua
Frank
Why Ron Paul Deserves Our Attention
Sherry
Wolf
Why the Left Should Reject Ron Paul
Dan
Bacher
Survey of a Fish Graveyard
Website
of the Day
Men Eating Bugs
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January
7, 2008
Remove That Man!
Creeping
Fascism in Indiana
By JOHN BLAIR
Fas·cism n
1. a system of government practiced
by Benito Mussolini in Italy between 1922 and 1943 that was characterized
by dictatorship, centralized control of private enterprise, repression
of opposition, and extreme nationalism
2. fas·cism or Fas·cism
any movement, tendency, or ideology that favors dictatorial government,
centralized control of private enterprise, repression of all
opposition, and extreme nationalism
Encarta® World English
Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation.
Lately, I have heard the word "fascism"
enter into American dialogue. Thus, I thought it would be interesting
to see how 2008 America stacks up in admittedly my own view.
I certainly use the word with caution since a mere mention inflames
any discussion of politics or philosophy.
First, I must admit to a personal
history of confrontation of authority. Sometimes, I have found
it useful and necessary to raise my voice just to get their attention.
I know that often brings a hostile response as I question seemingly
selfish promotion that serves no public purpose.
But over the last few months,
I have seen an acceleration of the destruction of our rights
as citizens in favor of increasingly "centralized control
of free enterprise."
Numerous examples can be found
at both national and state levels.
EPA unilaterally rejects proposals
in numerous states that wanted to control carbon dioxide emissions
themselves. Not only was this completely against precedent but
it also reeked of federal government control over what was considered
"states' rights."
Further, the Federal Communications
Commission arrogantly ignored the collective wishes of a wide
majority of the public but also the demands of Congress to cease
and desist on new rules allowing the greater concentration of
media around the country.
A few months ago EPA dismissed
the scientific advice of its Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
in setting new standards for fine particle pollution, thus allowing
increased health impacts of a controllable air pollutant.
Regionally, state governments
are taking a similar tack by restricting the public's right to
participate in their government and the decisions it makes.
Lately, Kentucky acts as if
the Clean Air Act does not apply to the Commonwealth. They issue
permits that do not follow rules, regs or laws. And, just last
month, they issued a permit without even acknowledge receiving
written comments that outlined several points requiring response
prior to giving approval to increase pollution.
In Indiana, it may be worse.
Indiana issued permits to increase
pollution levels of Lake Michigan, ignoring the pleas of surrounding
states like Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. Even the weakly
US House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning an
Indiana permit to BP (the oil company) which increases toxics
and solids the company dumps in the Lake. Apparently, BP convinced
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels that polluting less would be an
economic hardship although BP had some $16.5 billion in profit
through the first three quarters of 2007.
Then, Indiana, in a rush to
build a very expensive coal plant, rejected repeated requests
for additional time for comment on the first new plant to be
proposed for the state in more than twenty years. Indiana's air
agency took more than two years to review and issue the permit
but gave the public a comment period from just before Thanksgiving
to New Year's Eve with a hearing on December 20.
But the clearest instance of
the government/private sector partnership that constitutes fascist
behavior came January 3, during a hearing on whether Alcoa, the
nation's largest aluminum producer, should be able to get bond
money back on land they strip mined in the late 1970s.
Alcoa admits back filling huge
amounts of toxic waste from their aluminum manufacturing in southern
Indiana after coal had been removed. Miners who worked there
claim to have suffered death and disease from the chemical dumping.
Evidence submitted early in
the hearing suggested that one of many health impacts was the
advent of a rare form of bile duct cancer in at least three people
who had come into contact with the dumped waste, although there
are only 2,500 cases in the entire nation.
Unfortunately, the hearing
was unlike any ever conducted in Indiana for such purposes.
Usually, public hearings allow
citizens to offer their thoughts on the subject at hand, often
with some sort of time limitation if enough people wish to speak.
Sometimes, speakers are asked to take an oath of truthfulness,
most of the time, they are not.
This particular hearing was
conducted by, Adam Warnke, Legal Counsel for the Indiana Department
of Natural Resources. The room was not set up like a normal hearing.
It was set up so that only Mr. Warnke and a few people nearby
could actually hear what was being said although the room had
accessible audio equipment. People speaking had to sit across
a small table in front of Warnke who served as hearing officer,
Alcoa and DNR attorney and "decider" of what was said.
Warnke disallowed any anecdotal
evidence from afflicted miners and would accept only testimony
he personally believed was sufficiently "scientific."
Anything else was considered unworthy of the hearing, regardless
of its veracity or relevance.
I had signed up to speak and
hoped to make a quick point about how the Surface Mine Control
and Reclamation Act (SMACRA), required land to be restored to
a relatively natural state, similar to what was there prior to
mining. Obviously, hundreds of tons of hazardous chemicals being
dumped is nothing near the natural state prior to mining.
As I made my point, Mr. Warnke
interrupted my testimony, asking if I had any personal knowledge
of either the dumping or exactly where the dumping took place.
It had been well documented that Alcoa had dumped the chemicals
but I had not seen them do it, Warnke reminded me that I was
"under oath" and that if I lacked personal knowledge
of the dumping then I was somehow exceeding the limits he had
placed on my testimony.
When I challenged him to tell
me if he had personal knowledge that the dumping did not take
place on the site, he told me to "stop." To Warnke,
the "hearing" was to be conducted like a deposition
but he was the only person who could examine and cross examine
witnesses and if he did not like what you were saying, he would
shut you up.
As someone who has attended
hundreds of public hearings and meetings in my sixty-one years,
I knew something was amiss. Warnke's whole demeanor disallowed
sharing of information, instead, it was designed to keep information
to a minimum and deny people their rights to participate in a
public process.
Disrespectful of my testimony,
Warnke demanded that his own personal police, the DNR Conservation
Officers present, make me leave the meeting when I called him
out on his sham event.
A video of my testimony is
available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SaHh9_lPs
Any one of the exhibits I offer
might be taken as the misguided behavior of some bureaucratic
zealot, eager to impress his boss. But combined with other evidence,
a pattern emerges showing we have finally passed the threshold
where the only word to describe what is happening is FASCISM.
While I agree that there will
be an election this year and that might be sufficient to show
a lack a dictatorship, I also need to remind all that the current
regimes have essentially ignored both our constitution and our
laws if it was in their interests to do so. Some could argue
that their actions are, indeed, dictatorial.
Second, it is also clear that
private enterprise has seized the government through both corrupt
and legal means, just as fascism requires. That evidence is everywhere,
in all three branches of government at every level.
Third, increasingly the opposition
to government policies is oppressed, like getting kicked out
of a hearing because you spoke the wrong line, or being arrested
for carrying a sign at a political rally, which has happened
repeatedly during the Bush years. In fact, it happened to me
in 2002 when I carried a sign to a Dick Cheney political rally
and stood quietly across the street. The cops did not know what
to charge me with but came up with fraudulent reasons for my
arrest.
I challenged the arrest and
detention in Federal Court and won on both First and Fourth Amendment
grounds But that is another story. See: http://www.counterpunch.org/blair1.html
But those are only personal
experiences of a single activist. The sad fact is that oppression
is taking place all over the country against opponents of the
new order. Question their authority and you may find yourself
in jail. That is clearly oppressive and chilling to all but the
most courageous amongst us.
The last test to meet the definition
of fascism is the one of "extreme nationalism."
Who can deny that we are almost
required to wear our patriotism on our sleeve? Just look at the
flack Barak Obama had to endure when he decided to no longer
wear his Chinese-made, probably lead painted American Flag pin
on his lapel.
For instance, while the facts
indicate that American healthcare is far from the best in the
world, we require political candidates to delusionally claim
that it is, in some sort of declaration of allegiance to American
health insurance companies. That fits the philosophy of fascism
well.
We all know that corporations
have made government their own dominion. People are mere resources
to be exploited for corporate gain with the expressed consent
of their puppet government(s).
If those who really are free
entrepreneurs act for themselves but outside the perceived interests
of the corporate cabal, they are quickly reeled in and either
forced from business or required to toe the corporate line.
So, what do we do about it?
How do freedom loving people counter the onslaught of fascism
in the United States?
There is only one real way
to stop this juggernaut. Stand up to it. Face it down. And, like
Winston Churchill said when confronted with fascism in Europe,
"Never, never, never give up!"
Fascism creeps, oft needing
a sequence of events. First, it requires something that scares
people so they will become docile and compliant, like 9/11. Then
laws are passed that seem reasonable, to protect our personal
safety. Laws like the Patriot Act that may be interpreted to
restrict more and more of our previous freedoms.
Then, almost without seeing
it happen, those who dissent are considered suspect, unpatriotic
and even treasonous.
In Michael Moore's recent movie,
SICKO, there is a scene in which a Frenchman notes the difference
between France and the US. He says "in France, the government
is afraid of the peoplein America, the people are afraid of the
government."
It is no longer an abstract
question of whether the United States could become fascist, it
already has.
But like the previous ventures
into that dark condition, people will stand firm against it and
use their collective power and will to overcome the ravages fascism
begets. We really have no other choice.
John Blair is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer
from Evansville, Indiana. He serves as president of Valley
Watch, and advocates for environmental and public health
protection across the U. S. He can be reached at: Ecoserve1@aol.com
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