The Anti-war Movement Should Turn Itself Into

Free Speech Is Meaningless If The Commercial Cacophony Has Risen To The Point Where No One Can Hear You.

Fury Is An Entirely Appropriate Response To A System That Sends Young People To Kill Other Young People In A War That Never Should Have Been Waged. Yet The American Right Is Forever Trying To Pathologise Anger As Something Menacing And Abnormal, Dismissing War Opponents As Hateful And, In The Latest Slur, "wild-eyed". This Is Much Harder To Do When Victims Of Wars Begin To Speak For Themselves: No One Questions The Wildness In The Eyes Of A Mother Or Father Who Has Just Lost A Son Or Daughter, Or The Fury Of A Soldier Who Knows That He Is Being Asked To Kill, And To Die, Needlessly.

If Enough Of Us Stop Looking Away And Decide That Climate Change Is A Crisis Worthy Of Marshall Plan Levels Of Response, Then It Will Become One.

But We Need To Be Very Clear: Because Of Our Decades Of Collective Denial, No Gradual, Incremental Options Are Now Available To Us.

The Triumph Of Economic Globalization Has Inspired A Wave Of Techno-savvy Investigative Activists Who Are As Globally Minded As The Corporations They Track.