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The Essential Rules Of Liberty

By Brandon Smith
July 08, 2011
Courtesy Of "Information Clearing House"

There is nothing worse in this world than an enslaved man who naively believes himself free, except, perhaps, trying to explain to that same man his predicament. You can lay truth after truth before his feet. You can qualify your every position with cold hard irrefutable data. You can plead and scream and raise veritable hell, but before he will ever listen, he must first become aware of his own dire circumstances. As long as he views himself as “safe and secure”, as long as he imagines his chains to be wings, he will see no reason to question the validity of the world around him, and he will certainly never invest himself into changing his own deluded destiny.

Unfortunately, there are many such men crawling and scraping about here in what was once a land graced with a self sufficient and independently minded public majority. The great lie that has been perpetuated in this country over the past several decades is that we can defer our responsibilities of vigilance and place our well being and our futures into the hands of others for the sake of “collective efficiency”, or leisure. We have been conditioned to live in a state of constant indifference, a society which prizes compromise over principle and steadfast resolve. Those who refuse to compromise that which is honorable for the sake of ease and comfort are indicted as “extremist” or even criminal. The idea of personal revolution is treated with discomfort, and all we claim to stand for becomes muddled in a fog of inaction and cynicism. As Americans, we have forgotten what it means to earn and protect our own freedoms. We have forgotten that in liberty, there are standards that must be defended.

This, however, does not mean we cannot yet again remember ourselves. The desire for freedom is as inborn and natural as our own heartbeat, as our own breath. It is instinct. It cannot be erased from within, only oppressed from without. The tide has always been against tyranny, always, though we may find that hard to believe. If liberty was not ingrained into our very DNA, humanity would have succumbed to bondage and self destructed long ago. This is not the case. Stretching under the surface of our superficial force-fed mainstream culture are the roots of something real, and honest. Simmering beneath our so called “civilized” veneer, many Americans are finally rediscovering their wild and defiant origins. In the recent past we have been taught to feel ashamed of our rebelliousness. Now, we are learning to hold it quite dear.

For those of us who are awake, and for those who are on the verge of understanding, certain rules come into play that strengthen our stance and shield us from folly. Liberty is not a self perpetuating social condition. It requires guidelines, and effort, and sacrifice. Liberty will not survive without our willingness to maintain it. If you are not ready and willing to fight for your own independence, then you are not truly free.

Let’s examine some of the inherent laws and guidelines of free will and free action that will allow us to not only win back our self determination, but to keep it for generations to come. You want liberty? This is what it takes…

Rule #1: Never Take Anything For Granted

A lot of people today seem to have serious issues with expectation and assumption; what we in the alternative media often refer to as “normalcy bias”. We have grown used to the idea of abundance and relative safety. So much so, that we fail to notice when our abundance and safety begin to disappear. We assume that the condition of the world today will be the condition of the world tomorrow, and for all time. In the U.S., we have even come to expect not only that our prosperity and our freedom are inevitable, but that they will also increase exponentially with each passing generation. This is a relatively new and narrow cultural mindset likely caused by the explosion in industrial growth after WWII which seemed to erase all memory of the Great Depression in our society, leaving us with the belief that surely, our circumstances would never become so desperate again.

Those who are truly independent realize that nations, no matter how affluent, can self destruct at a moment’s notice, especially when they fail to recognize their own weaknesses and confront their own demons. Never suppose that that which is good and just will remain without your own initiative. Never wait for others to fix those problems which you could just as easily solve yourself. Never expect that freedoms won cannot also be easily lost. Always prepare for the worst outcome, and strive for the best outcome.

Rule #2: Educate Yourself

Never become a useful idiot, or a waste of oxygen. Being a part of the herd is nothing to be proud of. Strive for knowledge, and thirst for the truth every moment of every day. Many of the things we deem “important” in modern society are in the grand scheme hollow attempts to fill our lives with distraction, only wasting time until we finally bite the dust filled with regret. Pretending to further the depth of one’s life is not the same as actually doing so. I can’t think of anything more horrifying than becoming a man who rushes around frantically every waking moment, but ultimately accomplishes nothing.

Do not assume that you already have a tangible grasp of the truth, especially if all your knowledge has been handed to you. Instead, research that knowledge for yourself. Put that which you have been taught to the test. Only in this way will you finally learn. Expand your horizons. Learn something useful. Remove unnecessary distractions for at least part of your day and focus on increasing your awareness of the environment you live in. There are very few things in this world more important than this, and self education should take precedence over everything else except your family. “Lack of time” is no excuse for ignorance. Make time! The ignorant are led. The knowledgeable lead themselves.

Rule #3: Don’t Be A Pansy

Liberty is not for the faint of heart. Emotional courage is paramount to freedom, and it can be expressed to incredible effect by even the most unlikely heroes. I’ve seen children with more courage and tenacity than some full grown men.

If one recognizes the gravity of the situation we face as a people, if one understands the considerable danger involved in the fall of a Republic to the depths of fear and autocracy, but still does nothing, that person has not only failed the world, he has also failed himself. “Making waves”, or drawing the ire of “authority”, is the least of our worries. If you have utilized an objective eye, and know you are right in your position, then there is no reason to fear criticism from anyone.

Sociopolitical action, nonconformity, noncompliance, and self defense, are unavoidable aspects of a society that wishes to maintain its freedoms. There is no way around it. If you are not willing to stick your neck out and expose yourself to risk, you remove all chance of possible gain. If you are a self proclaimed activist that refuses to sacrifice, that refuses to struggle, then you have failed before you even began. Talk must lead to balanced action. Never thumb your nose at the devil without being ready to trade punches as well, or all is lost.

Rule #4: Stop Waiting For Others To Tell You What To Do

Independent people not only consider and implement the solutions of others, they also work on their own. Complaints abound lately in the Liberty Movement;

“When is someone going to do something!? What are YOU going to do about our predicament!?”

This is the question of a slave, not a free man. A free man asks, “What am I going to do about this predicament? What is MY solution to the problem?” Therein is the key to liberty; decentralized leadership and movements based on fluidity and spontaneity of action, instead of a great mass of people standing around stiffly waiting for orders on high, or a self styled messiah to engineer their world view. As soon as you place your very initiative under the control of others, you have lost the fight. Always consider the solid strategies of intelligent people, and adopt them if they are useful, but do not remain idle because you are too frightened to exert the effort to solve problems bigger than yourself. Spectators only witness history, they do not make history.

Rule #5: Cast Off What Is Unnecessary, Keep What Is Effective

Yes, I stole this rule from Bruce Lee, but it is just as applicable to social movements and economic stability as it is to the martial arts. Invasive debt creation, for instance, is a tool for subversion, and no people forced to bear the burden of liabilities they can never repay is free. Therefore, exorbitant debt must be avoided, or cast off completely.

In our personal lives, how many useless goods do we accumulate on a daily basis, instead of useful items that we may one day desperately need? How much of our life is spent accumulating garbage in order to keep up with “socially acceptable” levels of consumer behavior? How many of us cling to careers we hate in order to service our needless consumption? The ability to prioritize must become a virtue once again, and, we all need to shut off the cable television…

This rule also applies to governments. If a government no longer fulfills its sworn duties to the people, and no longer serves the purposes to which it was originally intended, then it too must be cast off and replaced with one that does serve the people, or, it must be forced to return to its inherent foundations. Today, this kind of talk is often referred to as “extremism”, or insurgency, no matter how correct it might be, which brings us to our next rule…

Rule #6: Ignore Establishment Labels

Tactical name calling is only effective if we actually care what other people think of us. Labels like “homegrown terrorist”, “extremist”, “doomer”, or “conspiracy theorist”, are designed to shame people into self censorship. That is to say, they pigeonhole movements and their participants into categories of public shame, causing said movements to fear social reprisal. They are also meant to forcefully assign “outsider” or “fringe” status to particular political positions in order to marginalize and weaken the resolve of those who hold them. Never mind that almost every powerful and honorable cultural movement in history once started out as “fringe”.

Early in our lives, we are taught that it is far better to be accepted, and to avoid standing out, even at the expense of our individualism. Unfortunately, many adults never outgrow this childish belief, and thus become vulnerable to tactics as absurd as simple ridicule. At bottom, being slandered by a thieving bureaucracy infested with soulless parasites bent on centralization at the expense of innocent human life is a bit laughable (this goes for you too, SPLC). Globalists, along with their media cronies and their think-tank sock puppets, will say ANYTHING to get what they want. Empty words and false labels cannot stop the truth, or a movement driven by the truth.

Rule #7: Cynicism Is The Path To Defeat

It is good to be critical, but not to the point of nihilism. America’s past is riddled with mistakes, bad judgments, horrible crimes, and downright stupidity; that doesn’t mean that the principles on which this country was founded are any less vital. We hear often from cynics that humanity has become too stupid and complacent to do what is right. However, stupidity and complacency are not inherent qualities. That’s an elitist fantasy with no basis in fact. Stupidity and complacency are learned behaviors, and they can be unlearned. 

What IS inherent is our ability to choose what path we will take. For adherents of liberty, we need only remind people that they have this choice. We can whine and cry all day long about how nobody pays attention and how there is no hope, or, we can exhaust all options before throwing in the proverbial towel. We don’t need to “like” society the way it is, but we do need to recognize the underlying potential of all people to become something much more than what they currently are (I can’t stand blind ignorance either, but I’m certainly not ready to accept it as a fact of American life). Remember, no fight is over until it is over.

Rule #8: True Authority Is Derived From Respect That Is Earned, Not Bought, Or Taken

A corrupt politician is just a criminal conman in a nice suit. A law enforcement officer who refuses to follow Constitutional Law is just a petty little tyrant in a black uniform. An economist who knowingly skews data to fit his own political bias or to serve the political biases of men above him is just a liar or an inept buffoon with an embossed piece of paper from an expensive university. A lab scientist or doctor who flubs experimentation to support the interests of the corporate world rather than the needs of the public is just a quack in a white coat. All too often, though, we find ourselves taking these cretins seriously all because they talk the talk and wear the costume. They are just people, and if they cannot do their jobs honestly, then they are useless people, who deserve our disdain, not our respect. We should never allow such men to wield positions of authority over us.

Rule #9: Take It Personally

When someone tries to steal from you, hurt you, or enslave you, unless you are some kind of nut, you take it pretty personally, right? Why should it be any different when a government commits the same grievances? 

Americans should be furious over the destruction of their economy, their currency, their infrastructure, and their Constitutional freedoms! They should be enraged over the endless wars overseas that are bankrupting the nation. They should be bellowing to the rooftops over the cooption of their political system by a slimy brood of corporate bankers. Is this “extremist” behavior? Who cares!? If your anger is not visible then it is not worth a damn. Don’t just get active, get emotional! This is about your life, and the lives of those you love. That’s not to say that we should take out our frustrations randomly and haphazardly, but if we can’t at least make known our anger over the misdeeds of government, then what the hell is the point of calling ourselves free?

Rule #10: You Are The First And Last Line Of Defense

Like it our not, this is our job. We have inherited a country on the verge of disaster, and we are tasked with cleaning it up, otherwise, there will be little left to pass on. We do not get to bask in illusory prosperity for the rest of our days. We do not get to feed off the entitlement program trough until we are fat and contented. We are not going to retain our rights without blood, sweat, and tears. We will not be building magical floating cities in the clouds or skyscrapers on Mars. We will NOT be remembered fondly as members of some fantastical “golden era”.

We have been thrust into the muck and the mire. We are being molded as the lost children of an age better forgotten. We have been slapped in the face with a dilemma so volatile and so incredible it may one day be called the greatest crisis of all time. We have drawn the short straw.

This could be viewed as some terrible doom. It could be held as a star crossed act of ferocious fate. We could fall to our knees and lament with despair, overcome with woe at our unbearable lot. But, this would be in violation of rule #3, and nobody wants to be a sobbing pansy. On the contrary, every “bad luck generation” is only so if they refuse to see the great fortune at their fingertips; if they refuse to seize the moment and conquer the giants of their day. The greater the hardship, the greater the enemy, the greater the heroes. We are faced with possibly the most unrelenting antagonists and the most treacherous obstacles in recent memory, or even distant memory. In the same spark of confrontation, we are also presented with unparalleled opportunity to change the course of the world forever. Whether or not we succeed, is entirely up to us. 

You can contact Brandon Smith at:  brandon@alt-market.com

Struggle For Freedom

"The developments of the last two years have testified that no effort can be fruitful and no solution practicable without honoring the urges and aspirations of the people. And it is not necessary that any secret parleys could be in the interest of a subjugated nation. Secret groups represent secret interests of powerful partners and lobbies of a state or states. The uprising in Kashmir has proved it beyond any shadow of doubt, and it has rejected once for all such interlocutors and politicians who have been working for long in India, Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, and Azad Kashmir to hatch out an unholy solution of Kashmir with the blessings of foreign powers."

By Muhammad Farooq Rehmani
(Wednesday, September 15, 2010)
Courtesy Of "Media Monitors"

Since 1990 the popular struggle of the Kashmiris for the right of self determination has been witnessing many vicissitudes and suffering shocks of deceit and treachery followed by upheavals and great human sacrifices. Although the days of the movement's spring were every time very short; its supporters and leaders could not avail of some God-sent opportunities during the last 62 years of trial and turmoil. Still the people withstood horrors of the Indian regime and came out of the environment of disillusion and depression with pride of endurance. Today the importance of resolving the dispute by peaceful negotiations has no doubt increased, but the regional conditions, such as the war in Afghanistan, struggle between different powers in that poor country, nefarious activities of India along the Durand line in Afghanistan, foreign spying activities in Pakistan, besides sponsored India-Afghan terrorism has made the process of Kashmir resolution very thorny and vague. Kashmiris ask this question, if under the given conditions Pakistan can see the resolution of Kashmir from the angle of the Kashmiris, who since 1990 have lost more than one hundred thousand people in their quest for freedom. Therefore, they don't trust the secret diplomacy. They are hanging between the devil and the deep blue sky, not knowing how to avoid the consequences of the current “war on terror” on Jammu and Kashmir.

Till recently Kashmir was a forgotten issue in the spectrum of big-power interests. Although it is still in that position, but it has shaken the Indian occupation regime and certainly it is a burning topic in India itself. Yet there are vested interests which interpret the situation of Kashmir in a very prejudiced manner. They make every attempt to belittle the importance of the uprising and try to throw the present fascinating and astonishing struggle into doldrums. Kashmiris have become very sensitive about the role and reactions of the people around them. They keep vigil on the events that can make or mar their destiny. They feel that still the world is not so much serious about their plight under the Indian subjugation. They are not highlighted or recognized at par with some other oppressed nations of the world.

No one cares about the Kashmiris who are being killed like dares in jungles, dishonored like beggars and prosecuted like habitual criminals when they demand their inalienable right—the right of self determination and raise their voice against the illegal occupation of Kashmir by India. A simple statement; fulfill your promise' also irks India. India has robbed Kashmir of its cultural and historical heritage, and forest wealth and economy. The innocent inhabitants continue to give their blood and honor for a cause that is so dear to every nation on earth—Azadi. The regime has a narrow base among the people, so it is ruthless to shoot them at will and drag to prisons and torture centers irrespective of their age or gender. During the last several decades India forced the Kashmiris to live as refugees in Pakistan. The tragic saga looks unending, as the lands, orchards and houses of Kashmiris who were forced to flee from their homes to Azad Kashmir in 1990, give a desolate look. Many can't risk their lives to go back to their ancestral homes. The Countryside is heavily occupied and patrolled by army and paramilitary forces, and beasts alike. Both are after humanity in the picturesque land of Kashmir. Therefore, the land and orchard owners rarely dare to protect their crops and orchard fields. My own apple garden and agricultural land is in an upper area of Bandipora. Because of these fears cultivators and gardeners cannot go there to look after the land, as a result a female bear has come for the first from her remote forest den and has given birth to cubs in the orchard garden—sending shock and horror around the area. In the near past village women used to go to forests along with their males to collect dry wood for their domestic use. But, now owing to the patrolling of army and police task-force in villages and forests they can't risk their honor or threaten their lives by wandering in jungles for wood and timber. Army encroachments have also robbed Kashmir of its green gold, clean streams and springs and the beautiful singing birds. Army and police are after both—youth and birds. Thundering of guns in these beautiful forests and meadows has forced some of the best species of birds to flee somewhere else in search of safer nests.

Today the Kashmiri youth believe that it is all rhetoric that the Kashmiris are free under the Indian flag and constitution. In reality India treats Kashmir like a colony and imposes its own will on the brave and sensitive inhabitants of the land. India has been misleading the world since 1947. It has silenced and sidelined the World Body on Kashmir. Therefore the people are neither heard nor permitted to break their shackles of political subjugation. We are asked to keep quiet, shut our eyes and look through the eyes of others, as India is a big country and American and European interests converge here.

It is the most painful observation that still after having suffered so long and sacrificed so many people the world is mum on Kashmir. They simply look at it from the India-Pakistan angle or their own regional interests—thus narrowing the scope of solution to mere status quo or cross-LOC trade, travel and cultural ties. Why the world is so cool and cynical towards giving due space to the Kashmiri standpoint on a just and durable solution of the Kashmir dispute. Is it because Kashmir is a small state and it has apparently no oil and gas resources or it is not an island in the Indian Ocean? In fact Kashmir is more resourceful and historically, culturally, economically, and intellectually more compatible than many modern tiny nation-states. In the past, it provided leadership to the Indian sub continent. It has the potential to make its contribution in almost every field of life to South Asia. The history can't ignore those great Kashmiris who have left their imprints as pioneer characters of different branches of knowledge in South Asia.

How long the Kashmiris would listen to the hollow sermons of world leaders and regional politicians with regard to a just and peaceful solution of the Kashmir issue. Their patience has exhausted. Today Kashmiris are facing bloodbath and humiliation of their near and dear ones in their own homes. How can they sit idle? Kashmiris have no time to sleep. They believe not only in the continuity of their political struggle, but also keep vigil on the role of the leadership.

The people of Kashmir are facing a cunning regime .India's way of tackling the Kashmir question is based on duplicity. It knows how to buy time to bury the issue. Indian strategists live on wishful thinking, they think that the present generation will become sick, senile and come of age. Although the people are disillusioned with the politicians, they have political awareness and faith in their historical goal and identity which has grown stronger after many shocks and regional developments. Moreover, they have vowed to fight back India's repressive and deceitful policies to the end. The more India sharpens its claws of savagery; the rapid is the answer by the Kashmiris against Delhi and its Kashmiri henchmen.

During the last 60 years India played foul politics, promulgated deceitful Presidential ordinances, adopted draconian laws and armored it's military in Jammu and Kashmir. It sponsored terrorism, leaving no room for rapprochement, and resolution of the issue by fair means. India trampled Kashmir's economy, rules of fair play in elections and installed most corrupt regimes on Kashmir. It also promoted and recruited in police service many dreaded agents to perpetuate terror in the civil society. Today the regime may be heaving a sigh of relief that the Kashmir Armed Police under the rule of Omar Abdullah is doing an excellent job by rippling bullets through the heads and breasts of teenagers to kill as many as possible within seconds. The promotions, increments and awards of police and intelligence men and officers depend on their score in the killing fields of Jammu and Kashmir. The present regime officer may look young and hope that his ruthless pro-army policy will ensure him long life on the heads of Kashmiris. But he does not know the nature's law that sometimes "man proposes God disposes". No mortal however powerful he may be can give life guarantee to a mortal in this world.

India and its viceroys in Kashmir have achieved nothing except hate and revenge hundreds times more by their bloody war against the people of Kashmir. They have brought havoc upon Kashmir; its economy, social order and politics where everything is in disarray. Nature's beautiful face is sad, as every house-hold has a sad story to tell, mourn and cry. India's terror policy is unprecedented. Therefore, the rage of the people is also matchless and unforgettable. India can't be absolved of her criminal record by giving a front line role to the Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police Force to humiliate, and brutalize people.

Indian army, paratroopers and Police and intelligence use unbridled powers under the draconian laws of the State. Still they are not satisfied and use the law ferociously against the innocent people. They arrest ordinary people to obtain forcibly money from them for their release. This evil-practice is at its peak in Kashmir's police system. There is no end to the current cycle of killings by troops in every city and town. It takes them no time to shoot at any youth whether he is alone or in any funeral procession. This is how the present chain of protests triggered on 11 June, 2010 and swept every nook and corner of Kashmir.

This situation has surprised many pundits of war and diplomacy across India and Pakistan. Because when armed struggle of the Kashmiri youth was at the receiving end during Gen (R) Musharraf's reign, track –II diplomacy was made very powerful to find out a solution which could legalize status quo in Jammu and Kashmir. Musharraf had a lot of support on the international front to achieve this end. Leadership was in this entire gamble a very important factor and thus his job was to look for a smart leader in Kashmir. Many people in India, Pakistan and Kashmir knew as to what was hatching behind the scene. The tools were at their full swing. Kashmiris understood it but they were helpless. However, there was an overwhelming majority of freedom fighters with a massive support inside the Indian occupied region to thwart the unholy alliance between the anti-freedom elements. Once A.G. Noorani and Azeez A.Naik told me in Islamabad that about 70% work on Kashmir had been accomplished and the remaining would be finalized within a couple of months. But, Khursheed Kasuri the then Foreign Minister of the Musharraf regime would always give ambiguous and confusing replies during his meetings with the Kashmiri leaders in the Foreign office. Still in a recent T.V interview he forgot his diplomatic lies and claims that they were about to reach an agreement on Kashmir, but for the lawyers movement it all flopped. The events in Pakistan came as a blessing in disguise—bolt from the blue; otherwise in his words “nuts and bolts were being fastened” to prevent any untoward happening in this direction.

The developments of the last two years have testified that no effort can be fruitful and no solution practicable without honoring the urges and aspirations of the people. And it is not necessary that any secret parleys could be in the interest of a subjugated nation. Secret groups represent secret interests of powerful partners and lobbies of a state or states. The uprising in Kashmir has proved it beyond any shadow of doubt, and it has rejected once for all such interlocutors and politicians who have been working for long in India, Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, and Azad Kashmir to hatch out an unholy solution of Kashmir with the blessings of foreign powers. Some interested elements wanted to thrust a Hobson's choice on the Kashmiris to grind their axe and follow what had been dictated to them.

The current political upheaval in the valley has made all those characters irrelevant, whose shuttle diplomacy between important world cities, including Delhi, Islamabad, Muzaffarabad and Mirpur terribly damaged the cause of Kashmiris by misinterpreting their political struggle. It only benefited India that gained ample time to organize its diplomatic campaign against the freedom movement. During all the hectic years of Musharraf's regime the sole aim of the diplomats and politicians and bureaucrats was to emphasize upon trade, travel and cultural activities under the garb of resolving the Kashmir dispute—making LOC irrelevant and ultimately burying the slogan of the right to self determination for Kashmir. Under this cunning love for the Kashmiris, shrewd diplomacy and camouflage, Kashmiris were offered trade under barter system like a snake in the grass. Many became victims to the lures and snares of the new cross-LOC activity. India was snickering at these developments behind the back.

In spite of all this India has failed to contain the Kashmir uprising or win over hearts of the people. Today even pro-Indian politicians hesitate to side with Delhi or its favorite regime in Srinagar. Nevertheless India is grateful to the crabby Kabul regime for weaving a cobweb of spies to harm Pakistan from its western borders. This is the only card India may be contemplating to play for diverting his (Pakistan's) attention from Kashmir. Kashmir is a powder- keg in which India will lose its international prestige, while at the same time Kashmir's resistance against occupation will grow stronger day after day. Because the present day Kashmir has learnt many lessons and arduously built its nerve strength. The back channel diplomacy is once again testing its fortune on Kashmir. But it should not forget that invisible approaches in political dispensation—old wine in new bottles will prove again dangerous and is not digestible to the Kashmiris. Kashmiris are made of a different mettle. It is strange to note that the track-II dialogue held in Bangkok on Aug 28-30 has ignored the current mass uprising and police brutalities in Kashmir. It has asked India and Pakistan to consider activating the back-channel on Jammu and Kashmir. The Bangkok dialogue laid more stress upon people-to-people contacts and the series of existing CBMs with particular emphasis on easing travel and trade between the two sides of the so called Line of Control. As usual it has neither given importance to the urges and aspirations of the Kashmiris as reflected through the present popular agitation nor called upon India to repeal its draconian laws of detention and prosecution. It indicates that newly organized Jinnah Institute and the Indian Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies have not learnt any lessons from the Musharaf formulas and the simmering developments of Kashmir. They have no access to Kashmir situation. On the contrary it looks that some Indian, American and European political thinkers are trying to acquire a wider understanding of the ongoing events in Kashmir. But some experts in our regions still prefer to hatch eggs in that fragile nest. Larry P. Goodson the author of “Afghanistan's Endless War” can be wise to say, “The Kashmir dispute that is at the root of the historical animosity with India must be resolved—the US must provide leadership to bring about that resolution, despite Indian desires to have Washington sit on the sidelines. This step will be very difficult, as India has already rebuffed efforts by the Obama administration to do exactly that. Both steps must occur in tandem.”

A World Of Freedom And Justice

A Noam Chomsky Video Of Lecture

Havens Center, Orpheum Theater, Madison - Thursday, April 8, 2010