"What can we do? We can hone our memory, we can learn from our history. We can continue to build public opinion until it becomes a deafening roar. We can turn the war on Iraq into a fishbowl of the U.S. government's excesses. We can expose George Bush and Tony Blair - and their allies - for the cowardly baby killers, water poisoners, and pusillanimous long-distance bombers that they are.

We can re-invent civil disobedience in a million different ways. In other words, we can come up with a million ways of becoming a collective pain in the ass.

When George Bush says "you're either with us, or you are with the terrorists" we can say "No thank you." We can let him know that the people of the world do not need to choose between a Malevolent Mickey Mouse and the Mad Mullahs. Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness - and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." --Arundhati Roy

"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." -- Thomas Jefferson

US is for sure a great nation.
Yet, please stop assuming the rest of the world "likes" being americanized. Pop culture, pop music, and rest of the trash, are really unbearable. If US people enjoy them , good for them, but do not mistake Rock'n'roll, serial TV films, the culture "sky is the limit" (childish as well as quite dangerous) with freedom.
Freedom is also not being brain washed by "free press" and "free media" into has become the epitome of oversimplified, moral-less life.
Good bless US and its real people, but not the image it projects on the rest of the world.

Our frustration grows to rage, and just as we are about to throw a shoe through the computer monitor, your thoughts, Greg, seem to hit that perfect nerve -- expressing our feelings completely -- but with the added benefit that millions like us will see them.

Thanks. We needed that. Keep 'em coming.

And Bob Dylan, quite lately -

"And I don't know why
I should really care
It's not dark yet,
but it's gettin' there."

Thanks for all you do— to tell the truth, tp let us know
The low the Exxon greed-heads are willing to go