[OccupyCU] Fwd: Fear and Learning, The Other 96%

[C. G. Estabrook]

> Fear and Learning, The Other 96%
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> Fear and Learning in Kabul
> by Kathy Kelly
> June 9 , 2015
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> “Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world… Shall we say the odds are too great? … the struggle is too hard? … and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message -- of longing, of hope, of solidarity… The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise, we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.”
> - Dr. Martin Luther King, “Beyond Vietnam”
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> Kabul—I’ve spent a wonderfully calm morning here in Kabul, listening to bird songs and to the call and response between mothers and their children in neighboring homes as families awaken and prepare their children for school. Maya Evans and I arrived here yesterday, and  are just settling into the community quarters of our young hosts, The Afghan Peace Volunteers (APVs) <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=937ab3e8cd&e=68bdb3121a>.  Last night, they told us about the jarring and frightening events that marked the past few months of their lives in Kabul.
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> They described how they felt when bomb explosions, nearby, awakened them on several mornings.  Some said they'd felt almost shell-shocked themselves discovering one recent day that thieves had ransacked their home.   They shared their intense feelings of alarm at a notorious warlord's statement condemning a human rights demonstration in which several community members had participated. And their horror when a few weeks later, in Kabul, a young woman, an Islamic scholar named  Farkhunda, was falsely accused in a street argument of desecrating the Koran, after which, to the roared approval of a frenzied mob of perhaps two thousand men, members of the crowd, with apparent police collusion, beat her to death.   Our young friends quietly sort through their emotions in the face of inescapable and often overwhelming violence.
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> This article was first published on Telesur English
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> A View From the Other 96%
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> by David Swanson <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=81e8dbb207&e=68bdb3121a>
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> Exposing Lies of Empire  by Andre Vltchek is an 800-page tour of the world between 2012 and 2015 without a Western tour guide. It ought to make you spitting-mad furious, then grateful for the enlightenment, and then ready to get to work.
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> The 4% of us humans who have grown up in the United States are taught that our government means well and does good. As we begin to grasp that this isn't always so, we're duly admonished that all governments do evil -- as if we were being simplistic and self-centered to blame Washington for too much.
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> But take this tour of the world with our nationless friend Andre. We see U.S. medical troops operating on Haitian civilians in the most unsafe conditions, while proper facilities nearby sit unused; these troops are practicing for battlefield surgeries. We see millions slaughtered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at U.S. instigation and with U.S. support. We see U.S. militarism inflicting immeasurable suffering in Somalia.
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