Noam Chomsky - "My Life As A White Supremacist"

Lest we forget: The first American terror attack to kill people indiscriminately (including 16 children) was perpetrated by a native-born, "Pillsbury doughboy," right-wing lunatic, cradle Catholic. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing

"My Life as a White Supremacist" - a Newsweek study of American Conservatism's paramilitary wing. Paramilitarism is Conservatism's scotomized Dark Side - incalculably more repugnant than Occupiers' lack of hygiene. To be clear: paramilitary lunatics - every one of them a right winger - are not just dangerous: they (and the movement they represent) constitute an existential threat to the survival of the United States in any recognizable form: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/11/20/my-life-as-white-supremacist.html

Noam Chomsky on Religion - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNDG7ErY-k4&feature=related

Chomsky: “Who’s the Terrorist?” (Part 1) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CKpCGjD8wg&feature=related

Chomsky: “Who’s the Terrorist” (Part II) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=oB1q2tdb-Gw 

Chomsky on 9/11 “conspiracy” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwZ-vIaW6Bc&feature=related 

Chomsky on Love and really great people - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMxWz3epGQ&feature=related

Chomsky: Does Capitalism make life better? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JroogX7zBek&feature=related

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Political and Economic Reading List:

1.) “The American Dream” by foul-mouthed (but brilliant) George Carlin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q 

2.) Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, "Of the 1%, by the 1%, and for the 1%" -http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105 

3.) "Our Banana Republic" by Nicholas Kristof - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/opinion/07kristof.html 

4.) "A Hedge Fund Republic" by Nicholas Kristof - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/opinion/18kristof.html 

5.) "How to End the Great Recession" by Robert Reich -http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/opinion/03reich.html 

6.) “A Dogma to Wreck the Country” by Thatcherite conservative, Niall Ferguson - http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/07/24/gop-antitax-dogma-endangers-the-country.html

7.) War, Peace and Political Manipulation - http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/10/war-peace-and-political-manipulation.html

8.) Ronald Reagan’s Budget Director David Stockman on America's inconceivable wealth inequality -http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7009217n

9.) “War is a Racket,” by Smedley Butler - http://www.fas.org/man/smedley.htm

10.) Benjamin Franklin “on Property and Taxes” - http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  ”Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander” -  http://alanarchibald.homestead.com/ThomasMerton.html