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    For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

    This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all.

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    Chomsky - Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours

    Here is approximately 60 minutes of Noam Chomsky who just turned 80 years old speaking last month at Riverside Church in Harlem to approximately 2000 people.

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    Chomsky on Iran (five parts)

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    kucinich was right

    The man needs professional help – he seems to think he’s William Wallace:

    [T]his concept of stability has — in other words, that foreign policy ought to promote stability as opposed to freedom has led to dangers, and that the only way to solve America’s long-term security needs is to remember that the enemy that we face can only recruit when there’s hopelessness and despair; and [...]