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<IMG src="http://www.truthdig.com/images/masthead_newsletter.gif"> Hi, I read this on Truthdig and thought you would find it interesting. =-=-=-=-=-=-= Chris Hedges’ Civil Disobedience The Truthdig columnist writes in <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071210/hedges" title="the Nation">The Nation</a> that he will not pay his taxes if the United States attacks Iran. Like Henry David Thoreau before him, Hedges will not help finance an immoral war. “I realize this is a desperate and perhaps futile gesture,” he writes. “But an attack on Iran—which appears increasingly likely before the coming presidential election—will unleash a regional conflict of catastrophic proportions.” <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20071121_chris_hedges_civil_disobedience/">http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20071121_chris_hedges_civil_disobedience/</a> Copyright © 2007 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved. =-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a one-time mailing from Truthdig, (<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/">www.truthdig.com</a>) on behalf of the sender. Please report any misuse to webmaster-at-truthdig.com <IMG src="http://www.truthdig.com/images/masthead_newsletter.gif"> Hi, I read this on Truthdig and thought you would find it interesting. =-=-=-=-=-=-= Chris Hedges’ Civil Disobedience The Truthdig columnist writes in <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071210/hedges" title="the Nation">The Nation</a> that he will not pay his taxes if the United States attacks Iran. Like Henry David Thoreau before him, Hedges will not help finance an immoral war. “I realize this is a desperate and perhaps futile gesture,” he writes. “But an attack on Iran—which appears increasingly likely before the coming presidential election—will unleash a regional conflict of catastrophic proportions.” <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20071121_chris_hedges_civil_disobedience/">http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20071121_chris_hedges_civil_disobedience/</a> Copyright © 2007 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved. =-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a one-time mailing from Truthdig, (<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/">www.truthdig.com</a>) on behalf of the sender. Please report any misuse to webmaster-at-truthdig.com

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