Will Third Political Party Help End U.S. Aggression?
By Sherwood Ross (about the author) Page 1 of 1 page(s) self.name = ‘mainwindow’; Become a Fan (4 fans) opednews.com For OpEdNews: Sherwood Ross – Writer As both the Republican and Democratic political parties are locked into a national security state that is perpetually at war, Americans urgently need to create a third political party, a law school dean writes. “It will take a third party to allow us to shed the national-security state”which the two major parties are locked into, which they maintain regardless of the votes of the populace, and which will destroy us as surely as it has destroyed previous empires,” writes Lawrence Velvel in his book “An Enemy of the People”(Doukathsan). As has been shown by the second Gulf War, both parties are “incapable of doing the right thing. They are too beholden to big money—money is virtually all that our politicians care about,” writes Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. The political parties “have gotten too used to t
