Thursday, January 27, 2011

Single Payer, Arabs, Vietnam Vets, and the Internet | CommonDreams.org

Single Payer, Arabs, Vietnam Vets, and the Internet | CommonDreams.org:

"All throughout the Arab world, the despots are on the run.

Fueled by Facebook and Twitter, the Arab street is aflame.

In the United States, instead of fueling the resistance, social media is like a hypnotic drug.

A young Arab in Tunisia gets slapped around – the story goes – by a police officer.

He lights himself on fire.

And the whole Arab world is engaged.

Here in the United States, we get slapped around daily by the corporate elite.

And we take it sitting down in front of our computers."

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