Carlos's Blog (25)

"When independent-thinking people and here I do not include the corporate media, begin to rally under flags...

When writers, painters, musicians, filmmakers, suspend their judgment and blindly look the aught to the service of the nation, it's time for us all to sit up and worry.



Recently those who have criticized the actions of the U.S. government, myself included, have been called 'anti-American.'

'Anti-Americanism' is in the process of being consecrated into an… Continue

"My writings are about power. About the paranoia and ruthlessness of power. About the physics of power. In India those of us who have expressed views on nuclear bombs, corporate globalization...views that are branded anti-national- while this accusation doesn't fill me with indignation, it is not an accurate description of what I do and how I think. Because an anti-national is a person who is against his or her nation, and by inference, pro-some other one. But it isn't necessary to be… Continue

The state of the U.S. economy has been at its worst since the Great Depression. Dow Jones dropped 800 points five days ago, and only went up 400 points four days ago. The Bailout Plan did not pass through Congress, but then it did pass (give thanks and praises). My physiology professor said that at the rate that we are going, if the nonsense in Washington does not stop, then my university and all public and private institutions will close within two months. We need a solution to the… Continue

"A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us, even when pressed by the demands of inner truth. Men do not easily assume the task of opposing their governments' policy, especially in time of war. And I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyors of violence in the world today: my own government.



What do they think as we test out our latest weapons on… Continue

I had a conversation with a Vietnam war veteran this morning at the Methodist Hospital cafeteria. He was an engineer of some sort. However, what was important in our conversation was his take on war. He went to Vietnam twice: once in 1966-67, and again in '73 when the war was nearing its end. He said that the goal of war was to kill everything in sight wherever it is that the vehicle of transportation for the soldiers unloads. He said he jokes around with his wife by telling her that in a war,… Continue