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The Crisis Papers Enters a New Phase
"Change," the central theme of the Obama campaign and presidency, has likewise come to this website, The Crisis Papers, and to the projected future activity of its editors.
The Crisis Papers will remain online for the foreseeable future, and the editors will continue to write essays, originating at The Crisis Papers and also circulated for publication at other progressive websites.
However, effective with this issue, The Crisis Papers will no longer adhere to a weekly update schedule and the appearance of our essays will be less frequent. Henceforth we will discontinue our features, "Recommended Articles of the Week" and "Audio and Video Features." However, we will update, expand and refresh our popular pages: "The Dissenting Internet" (a listing of solid websites to visit for political information), "Recommended Blogsites" (the best of the political bloggers out there on the web), and "The Activists' Page" (contacts for aiding the cause).
The Crisis Papers will also serve as an archive of the original internet essays, past and future, by Bernard Weiner and Ernest Partridge. There are now over five hundred essays in the archive.Continuing
January 6, 2009
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Bernard Weiner:
NEW: Obama and Gaza: Exiting the Vortex of Violence. The never-ceasing war between Israelis and Palestinians speaks both to a kind of political mental-illness and to a failure of will and creative imagination on a grand regional and global scale. But, if the desire of peace can be enlarged, there are ways out of the maelstrom of slaughter
REPRISE: Talkin' About the F-Word. Two months after 9/11, I wrote that events were "taking us closer to a brand of near-fascism that is frightening in its seeming acceptance by the U.S. populace and in its implications for the future of American democracy. The non-domestic corollary: America, already resented and hated for its arrogant attitudes and policies around the world, is behaving more and more like a mad bull on a Pax Americana rampage." (First published by CommonDreams.org December 5, 2001.)
Ernest Partridge
NEW: A Battle is Won, but the War Continues. Regressives (i.e., self-described “conservatives”) have a nasty disinclination to learn from history, as they routinely promote policies that have failed spectacularly in the past. Today, with the advent of a Barack Obama administration and a solidly Democratic Congress, this is no time for progressives to imitate the regressives. For, as George Santayana famously warned, those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
REPRISE: A Failed Experiment. Twenty-eight years after the advent of "the Reagan Revolution" we have a dismantled and “outsourced” industrial base, an impoverished work force, a nine trillion dollar debt, a degradation of education and scientific research, and a captive media that deprives the public of essential news as it issues outright lies. The grand experiment has failed, and we are just beginning to realize the enormous costs of that failure. It happened because the core dogmas of this so-called “conservatism” – the possibility and desirability of an ungoverned society, the superior “wisdom” of an unconstrained free market, the suitability of simple greed as a driving force of society – were fated from the start to fail the test of “real world” application. (From June 7, 2007. See also, "The Road to Catastrophe")
June 3, 2008
Ernest Partridge's Blog: A farewell tribute to an old friend, Bruce "Utah" Phillips: pacifist, activist, poet, folklorist, and song writer.Bernard Weiner's Blog: The Holding-One's-Nose-While-Voting Dilemma. In November, should progressives who aren't enamored of the Dem nominee swallow hard and vote for that candidate -- because s/he isn't McCain -- or should progressives vote for Nader or McKinney or Gravel? In a heated exchange of letters, here is an updated version of the every-four-year dilemma. Hold your nose or go for more political purity? (April 15, 2008)
