From the archives of The Memory Hole

Civilian-Based Defense: At the BOP

Texts at the Bureau of Public Secrets website concerning war, nonviolence, and related themes:

• "The War and the Spectacle" (on the Gulf war, the media, and various antiwar strategies) — http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS /gulfwar.htm

• "Two Local Wars" (Situationist article on the Vietnam and Arab-Israel wars) — http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI /11.wars.htm

• "War Is the Health of the State" (Randolph Bourne) — http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/ bourne.htm

• "Beginnings of a New Revolt" (Kenneth Rexroth on the Civil Rights movement) — http://www.bopsecrets .org/rexroth/newrevolt.htm

• "Advantages and Limits of Nonviolence" — http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS /joyrev2.htm

• "Strong Lessons for Engaged Buddhists" — http://www.bopsecrets.org/ PS/buddhists.htm

• "Evading the Transformation of Reality: Socially Engaged Buddhism at an Impasse" — http://www.bopsecrets. org/recent/buddhists.htm

• "Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail" (Clarence Darrow) — http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/darrow.htm

• "Eliminating the Roots of War and Crime" — http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS /joyrev4.htm

• "More Interesting Problems" (spiritual aspects of a liberated society) — http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS /joyrev4.htm

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The Bureau of Public Secrets website features "The Joy of Revolution" and other writings by Ken Knabb (recently collected in the book "Public Secrets"), Knabb's translations from the Situationist International (the notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France), and the Rexroth Archive (texts by and about the great writer and social critic Kenneth Rexroth).

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