War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young, In the Thrall of a Dominant Death Culture
Persisting in his support for an unpopular war, the Democrat in the White House has helped spark a rebellion close to home. Young people — least inclined to deference, most inclined to moral outrage — are leading public opposition to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza. The campus upheaval is a clash between accepting and resisting, while elites insist on doing maintenance work for the war machine.
I wrote the above words recently, but I could have written very similar ones in the spring of 1968. (In fact, I did.) Joe Biden hasn’t sent U.S. troops to kill in Gaza, as President Lyndon Johnson did in Vietnam, but the current president has done all he can to provide massive quantities of weapons and ammunition to Israel — literally making the carnage in Gaza possible.


Today, on college campuses in the U.S., and around the world, there is a powerful student/faculty/staff/
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South African veteran anti apartheid activist, Ronnie Kasrils, is calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. He's a founding member of the armed wing of the African National Congress, and former minister in the first post-apartheid government.




