"The time for the atomic bomb has come to an end. If the atomic bomb could do any good, it would have kept the Soviet Union from collapsing," he said. "Those who stockpile or build the atomic bomb are backward thinking."
Was it Blair
Was it Brown
Was it Bush
Was it Cheney
Was it Putin
Was it Medvedev
Or none of the above ??
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
US - State Sponsor of Terror - Another President calls it as it is !
More and more countries are calling US foreign policy, what it is.... STATE SPONSORED TERROR.
Whether it is encouraging Georgia to provoke Russia, by using genocide against its own people, whilst conduction peace negotiations.
Whether it is supporting the MKO Terror groups Terror activities in Iran
Whether it is trying to upset the peace in Bolivia or Venezuela. I think Morales has said it best, towards the end of this article. It is clear that 'the US works to undermine nations that reject the capitalist model.'.
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Morales scolds US at UN meeting
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:27:58 GMT
Bolivian President Evo Morales addresses the UN General Assembly in New York.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has accused the US of backing opponents trying to destabilize his government with “acts of terrorism.”
In an address to the United Nations assembly in New York on Tuesday, Bolivia's first indigenous president referred to what he called a permanent conspiracy among pro-autonomy, largely white groups in Bolivia's wealthy eastern areas.
"I would like to hear representatives of the U.S. government rejecting these acts of terrorism ... But you know, they are allies, of course they will never condemn this,” he said.
Earlier this month anti-Morales protesters from Bolivia's resource-rich "half-moon" states provoked clashes during which 18 people were killed.
Anti-Morales protesters have also caused disruption by setting up roadblocks, attacking police, abducting federal employees, seizing airports and taking over state-run television stations and community radio stations.
Anti-government elements have also targeted pipelines transporting natural gas to countries such as Brazil. One of Morales' key proposals is to nationalize windfall profits from Bolivia's natural gas industry.
Morales told the UN assembly that wealthier states oppose plans to redistribute wealth amongst the people of Latin America's poorest country.
Latin American nations and Europe have supported the Bolivian government, but Morales condemned the US for not responding to the situation.
Morales told the gathering of world leaders that he believed the US works to undermine nations that reject the capitalist model.
In response to growing unrest, Bolivia expelled the US ambassador to La Paz last month. President Morales revealed that US Ambassador Phillip Goldberg had held meetings with secessionist leaders and alleged that the US Embassy had asked Peace Corps volunteers and a Fulbright scholar to act as spies.
In past years, the US Congress-funded National Endowment for Democracy and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) organizations have supported right-wing movements in Bolivia.
Whether it is encouraging Georgia to provoke Russia, by using genocide against its own people, whilst conduction peace negotiations.
Whether it is supporting the MKO Terror groups Terror activities in Iran
Whether it is trying to upset the peace in Bolivia or Venezuela. I think Morales has said it best, towards the end of this article. It is clear that 'the US works to undermine nations that reject the capitalist model.'.
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Morales scolds US at UN meeting
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:27:58 GMT
Bolivian President Evo Morales addresses the UN General Assembly in New York.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has accused the US of backing opponents trying to destabilize his government with “acts of terrorism.”
In an address to the United Nations assembly in New York on Tuesday, Bolivia's first indigenous president referred to what he called a permanent conspiracy among pro-autonomy, largely white groups in Bolivia's wealthy eastern areas.
"I would like to hear representatives of the U.S. government rejecting these acts of terrorism ... But you know, they are allies, of course they will never condemn this,” he said.
Earlier this month anti-Morales protesters from Bolivia's resource-rich "half-moon" states provoked clashes during which 18 people were killed.
Anti-Morales protesters have also caused disruption by setting up roadblocks, attacking police, abducting federal employees, seizing airports and taking over state-run television stations and community radio stations.
Anti-government elements have also targeted pipelines transporting natural gas to countries such as Brazil. One of Morales' key proposals is to nationalize windfall profits from Bolivia's natural gas industry.
Morales told the UN assembly that wealthier states oppose plans to redistribute wealth amongst the people of Latin America's poorest country.
Latin American nations and Europe have supported the Bolivian government, but Morales condemned the US for not responding to the situation.
Morales told the gathering of world leaders that he believed the US works to undermine nations that reject the capitalist model.
In response to growing unrest, Bolivia expelled the US ambassador to La Paz last month. President Morales revealed that US Ambassador Phillip Goldberg had held meetings with secessionist leaders and alleged that the US Embassy had asked Peace Corps volunteers and a Fulbright scholar to act as spies.
In past years, the US Congress-funded National Endowment for Democracy and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) organizations have supported right-wing movements in Bolivia.
Iran seeks report on powers' N-arms
This also came about during the UN's General Assembly 2008. Which i think is a good point, well made. The country that is the most open about its nuclear activities (Iran) calling for others to follow its example, if only a little bit. We could name a few, but both the US and Israel are developing the most WMD on the planet.
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Iran seeks report on powers' N-arms
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:00:19 GMT
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged the UN's atomic watchdog agency to report on the nuclear weapons of the world powers.
Ahmadinejad also called for a nuclear disarmament of these powers by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Ahmadinejad, speaking at the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, slammed some world powers that are stockpiling weapons of mass destruction including atomic weapons and also threatening the world peace by installing new missile systems.
Ahmadinejad was indirectly referring to the US plan to deploy new missile shield in Eastern Europe.
He also voiced the Iranian nation's commitment to defend its nuclear rights, stressing that Tehran will not give up its rights under pressure from certain world powers.
“Despite the inalienable right of all nations to produce nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes and the fact that Iran's nuclear program has been transparent and Tehran has been cooperating with the IAEA inspectors and that the IAEA has confirmed peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program, some bullying powers try to hinder Iran's nuclear program,” Ahmadinejad insisted.
“These are the same countries that are producing new generation of nuclear arms and no international organization is monitoring their program. The catastrophe in Nagasaki and Hiroshima was perpetrated by one these powers,” Iran's president added.
Ahmadinejad stressed that such powers are not against a proliferation of nuclear weapons but they want to monopolize advanced technologies to use them as a tool to impose their own will on others.
“It is natural that the great Iranian nation will resist the bullying powers and will continue to defend their nuclear rights,” remarked the president.
Ahmadinejad suggested that it is time that the UN nuclear agency report to the international community on how it monitors the nuclear activities of major powers.
He also called for formation of a disarmament committee by independent states to monitor the disarmament of the nuclear powers.
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Iran seeks report on powers' N-arms
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:00:19 GMT
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged the UN's atomic watchdog agency to report on the nuclear weapons of the world powers.
Ahmadinejad also called for a nuclear disarmament of these powers by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Ahmadinejad, speaking at the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, slammed some world powers that are stockpiling weapons of mass destruction including atomic weapons and also threatening the world peace by installing new missile systems.
Ahmadinejad was indirectly referring to the US plan to deploy new missile shield in Eastern Europe.
He also voiced the Iranian nation's commitment to defend its nuclear rights, stressing that Tehran will not give up its rights under pressure from certain world powers.
“Despite the inalienable right of all nations to produce nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes and the fact that Iran's nuclear program has been transparent and Tehran has been cooperating with the IAEA inspectors and that the IAEA has confirmed peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program, some bullying powers try to hinder Iran's nuclear program,” Ahmadinejad insisted.
“These are the same countries that are producing new generation of nuclear arms and no international organization is monitoring their program. The catastrophe in Nagasaki and Hiroshima was perpetrated by one these powers,” Iran's president added.
Ahmadinejad stressed that such powers are not against a proliferation of nuclear weapons but they want to monopolize advanced technologies to use them as a tool to impose their own will on others.
“It is natural that the great Iranian nation will resist the bullying powers and will continue to defend their nuclear rights,” remarked the president.
Ahmadinejad suggested that it is time that the UN nuclear agency report to the international community on how it monitors the nuclear activities of major powers.
He also called for formation of a disarmament committee by independent states to monitor the disarmament of the nuclear powers.
UN General Assembly 2008 - Hah Hah
It was good to hear yesterday more and more countries asking for UN support or condemnation against the US for its policies of inciting violence and state sponsored terrorism.
Here is a report from Haaretz, which through gritted teeth, says how the President of Iran is managing to get his clear peaceful message across. This also makes clear the distinction of his message of peace, Vs, the US Presidents message of Terror. lol.
By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent - 24/09/2008
WASHINGTON - Just how weak the international front against Iran's nuclear program is became clear during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York this week. Not only will he address the UN General Assembly just like any other world leader, but he has been sought after by the media, and tomorrow, he will even be hosted at a dinner by several Christian organizations that say they are seeking to promote peace.
On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad did his best to weaken the opposition still further, via an interview with America's prestigious National Public Radio: He insisted that he is not seeking a confrontation with the United States or anyone else, and that the entire problem is "the U.S. administration and its group of friends."
Asked by NPR about Iran's confrontation with the world over its nuclear program, he retorted: "Where is the world that you are speaking of? Again, 118 members of the Non-Aligned Movement are supporting us. Fifty-seven countries of the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference]. So the world that is concerned that you refer to, who is it? Which world? Is it really the U.S. administration and its group of friends?"
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He even said he would like to cooperate with the U.S. - but clarified that Iran has already done "whatever we could," so now, "it's time for the American government to act."
Asked about his threat to "wipe Israel off the map," he insisted that he was referring to the country's peaceful disappearance.
"Let me create an analogy here - where exactly is the Soviet Union today?" he said. "It did disappear - but exactly how? It was through the vote of its own people. So therefore in Palestine, too, we must allow the people, the Palestinians, to determine their own future.
"Let's ask ourselves, where exactly did the Zionist regime come from?" he continued. "Palestine has existed historically with people who live there for thousands of years. Then at gunpoint several million of the indigenous people there were forced out of their homes and became displaced. And it didn't stop there; others were brought from elsewhere in the world to replace them. How can you accept this regime?
"Is the problem of the U.S. government the Zionist regime?" he added. "I believe the extremity to which the U.S. government has gone to extend support to the Zionist regime has caused the U.S. government problems around the world."
Here is a report from Haaretz, which through gritted teeth, says how the President of Iran is managing to get his clear peaceful message across. This also makes clear the distinction of his message of peace, Vs, the US Presidents message of Terror. lol.
By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent - 24/09/2008
WASHINGTON - Just how weak the international front against Iran's nuclear program is became clear during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York this week. Not only will he address the UN General Assembly just like any other world leader, but he has been sought after by the media, and tomorrow, he will even be hosted at a dinner by several Christian organizations that say they are seeking to promote peace.
On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad did his best to weaken the opposition still further, via an interview with America's prestigious National Public Radio: He insisted that he is not seeking a confrontation with the United States or anyone else, and that the entire problem is "the U.S. administration and its group of friends."
Asked by NPR about Iran's confrontation with the world over its nuclear program, he retorted: "Where is the world that you are speaking of? Again, 118 members of the Non-Aligned Movement are supporting us. Fifty-seven countries of the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference]. So the world that is concerned that you refer to, who is it? Which world? Is it really the U.S. administration and its group of friends?"
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He even said he would like to cooperate with the U.S. - but clarified that Iran has already done "whatever we could," so now, "it's time for the American government to act."
Asked about his threat to "wipe Israel off the map," he insisted that he was referring to the country's peaceful disappearance.
"Let me create an analogy here - where exactly is the Soviet Union today?" he said. "It did disappear - but exactly how? It was through the vote of its own people. So therefore in Palestine, too, we must allow the people, the Palestinians, to determine their own future.
"Let's ask ourselves, where exactly did the Zionist regime come from?" he continued. "Palestine has existed historically with people who live there for thousands of years. Then at gunpoint several million of the indigenous people there were forced out of their homes and became displaced. And it didn't stop there; others were brought from elsewhere in the world to replace them. How can you accept this regime?
"Is the problem of the U.S. government the Zionist regime?" he added. "I believe the extremity to which the U.S. government has gone to extend support to the Zionist regime has caused the U.S. government problems around the world."
Monday, 22 September 2008
The other side of the coin
While the west watches the demonising of Ahmadinejad when he visits NY for the UN General Assy. We here this refreshing news piece, obviously only found on foreign websites (PressTV).
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A group of American rabbis welcome Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York in a move aimed at countering an anti-Iran protest.
Iran promotes peace and respects Judaism, spokesman of Neturei Karta International (Jews United Against Zionism) Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss said in a statement issued on the eve of President Ahmadinejad's visit to New York.
This is while a pro-Israeli group called the Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations has made efforts to organize a rally in front of the UN headquarters on Sunday to protest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's arrival in the US.
Neturei Karta International, however, took quite a contrary position toward Ahmadinejad's visit and called for dialogue with the Iranian president.
"It is sad that so few have actually attempted to speak to the Iranian President or seek the true opinion of Iranian Jewry who live in peace and practice their faith throughout that nation. We have met this man who has demonstrated time and again that he is sincerely interested in the well being of Iran's Jewish community and has deep respect for world Jewry and their Torah faith. The Zionist attempt to socially isolate this man and his people is immoral and disastrous," said the statement.
"It has been our honor and privilege to meet with President Ahmadinejad ... we have found the Iranian President to be a deeply religious man, dedicated to a peaceful world, based on mutual respect, fairness and dialogue," Rabbi Weiss wrote.
"Out of great respect to the Iranian Nation and their leadership we proudly welcome the Honorable President Ahmadinejad to New York, WELCOME!" added the rabbi at the end of the statement.
Iran's President arrived at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport on Sunday to address the 63rd annual session of the UN General Assembly on September 23.
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A group of American rabbis welcome Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York in a move aimed at countering an anti-Iran protest.
Iran promotes peace and respects Judaism, spokesman of Neturei Karta International (Jews United Against Zionism) Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss said in a statement issued on the eve of President Ahmadinejad's visit to New York.
This is while a pro-Israeli group called the Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations has made efforts to organize a rally in front of the UN headquarters on Sunday to protest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's arrival in the US.
Neturei Karta International, however, took quite a contrary position toward Ahmadinejad's visit and called for dialogue with the Iranian president.
"It is sad that so few have actually attempted to speak to the Iranian President or seek the true opinion of Iranian Jewry who live in peace and practice their faith throughout that nation. We have met this man who has demonstrated time and again that he is sincerely interested in the well being of Iran's Jewish community and has deep respect for world Jewry and their Torah faith. The Zionist attempt to socially isolate this man and his people is immoral and disastrous," said the statement.
"It has been our honor and privilege to meet with President Ahmadinejad ... we have found the Iranian President to be a deeply religious man, dedicated to a peaceful world, based on mutual respect, fairness and dialogue," Rabbi Weiss wrote.
"Out of great respect to the Iranian Nation and their leadership we proudly welcome the Honorable President Ahmadinejad to New York, WELCOME!" added the rabbi at the end of the statement.
Iran's President arrived at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport on Sunday to address the 63rd annual session of the UN General Assembly on September 23.
Two Timing X 2 By Iconoclast
Found this amusing, and there is so little amusing regarding the capitalist model of making money for rich people only !!
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isn't it lovely - they found a way to make people pay for the same thing over and over again.
federal reserve creates money out of thin air for the government - citizen pays the interest.
citizen gets a loan for a home - pays again!
now the mortgage broker is broke and being bailed out by the government (=taxes) - time to pay again!
and in the end, the citizen will have payed multiple times for something that should be a human right (housing), but he won't own a home, he will be broke, unemployed and destroyed...
the masterplan is so incedibly fiendish, you have to somehow admire it. (even if it makes you vomit)
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isn't it lovely - they found a way to make people pay for the same thing over and over again.
federal reserve creates money out of thin air for the government - citizen pays the interest.
citizen gets a loan for a home - pays again!
now the mortgage broker is broke and being bailed out by the government (=taxes) - time to pay again!
and in the end, the citizen will have payed multiple times for something that should be a human right (housing), but he won't own a home, he will be broke, unemployed and destroyed...
the masterplan is so incedibly fiendish, you have to somehow admire it. (even if it makes you vomit)
Why wont they say no
Why Won't They Say 'NO!'?
Butler Shaffer
LewRockwell.com
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:56 EDT
While critics of the vicious and evil policies of the modern American state continue to ask what can be done to punish and/or remove its practitioners from office, I am far more interested in the question: why do the American people continue to support such destructive and tyrannical behavior, whether eagerly or by silent acquiescence? With almost weekly escalation of government power over their lives, and threats to the lives of innocent men, women, and children in foreign lands, why is there so little willingness to say "No! You have gone too far for decent people to any longer tolerate your actions!"?
America is in terrible straits. It is no exaggeration to suggest that it is well into an irreversible state of collapse. The national government is ruled by psychopaths, with wars being fabricated out of lies, forged "documents," and other deceptions. Two nations that have not posed any kind of threat to the United States have been singled out for unprovoked attacks. With the diminishing returns that have rendered the continued bullying of Iraqi and Afghan people boring to both advocates and opponents of these wars, Republican and Democratic officials now turn their attentions to another country that poses no threat to America: Iran.
Why is there no widespread moral revulsion by Americans against the murderous and destructive policies of its political system? If your son was out with his friends engaging in drive-by shootings, would you be as proud as the parents of those who do their killings on behalf of the state, and who emblazon their cars with bumper-stickers reading "proud parents of a Marine"?
Even if we don't wallow in such savagery, why are so many of us unwilling to openly condemn it? As the current police-state continues its growth, some may understandably fear the midnight knock on their front door that was implicit in the September, 2001 remark by White House Press Secretary, Ari Fleischer: people "need to watch what they say, watch what they do." The message gets through to many that, an administration that thumbs its nose at habeas corpus, embraces the use of torture, and openly regards the Constitution as nothing more than "a piece of paper," is a bully too dangerous to offend.
I suspect that many who secretly oppose what the state is doing believe that such "excesses" amount to little more than a temporary embarrassment; one that will pass upon the end of George W's final term; and that the election of a new president will bring things back to "normal." But it seems clear that what we are now experiencing in America is a new "norm"; that we are dealing not just with the idiosyncrasies and psychotic traits embedded in the present administration. The problem runs much deeper, I believe, as an expression of more sinister purposes of the political establishment that presumes ownership of the nation.
Is the American civilization likely to recover its bearings in time to reverse its moral and intellectual free-fall? In the absence of a fundamental transformation in thought and the nature of social systems, the answer is a firm "no." America - along with the rest of the West - will likely find itself suffering the fate of all previous civilizations. War-lusting empires collapse, but civilizations leave to the rest of mankind their creative and beneficial attributes. Thus were we bequeathed by the ancient Greeks the basic foundations for intelligent thought; the Romans their engineering skills; and the Persians their important work in the sciences and advanced forms of mathematics.
Western civilization built on these and other attributes to produce great works of literature, art, music, scientific discovery, and invention. But perhaps its greatest contribution to human well-being will prove to have been the confluence of such factors as individual liberty, the private ownership of property, and an understanding of the dynamics of the marketplace, to have produced the industrial revolution. In contrast with its present decline-and-fall, we should learn from history that civilizations are created and sustained by individuals; they are destroyed by collectives.
Recent civilizations have generally followed a westerly course: from Greece to Rome to Western Europe to Great Britain to America. Perhaps the beneficent qualities that once made America great - particularly respect for individuals pursuing their self-interests within free markets - will be embraced by Asian countries - perhaps China - as the creative energies that make for great civilizations continue their westward trek.
Perhaps centuries from now, historians - writing in different languages than English, and for intelligent minds of different cultures than ours - will ponder the question with which Gibbon and others left us after the fall of Rome: why? Having produced such free, prosperous, and humane social systems, why were the foundations of Western civilization so easily allowed to be torn away? As barbarians and looters began to ooze their way upwards through an expanding pool of muck, why were so many millions of people who had benefited from this civilization - and who stood to suffer the most from its collapse - so unwilling or unable to see what was at stake, and to say "No!"?
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I see the problem as simple as, if English media (all forms) do not tell the truth, then people are unaware of how bad the situation is. As long as we are provided a scapegoat i.e. Iran / Russia, then noone thinks our own government is to blame or even if it is blatent that they are, we cannot do anything about it, so they carry on watching the soaps and reality TV, thinking , this does not effect them and if it does then that is just part of life. Not many people believe we can shape the Earth the way it should be.
The truth can be reported Globally in various languages, but we will not know it. Also, if you watch any real news i.e. Al Jazeera, then people still scoff, that it has been labelled and classified as bad / unreliable news.
Lastly , as mentioned in the article above, if you do have your eyes open and you take a day out of your comfortable life to say what needs to be said, you are likely to be labelled and unforeseen things may happen to your comfortable life.
Butler Shaffer
LewRockwell.com
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:56 EDT
While critics of the vicious and evil policies of the modern American state continue to ask what can be done to punish and/or remove its practitioners from office, I am far more interested in the question: why do the American people continue to support such destructive and tyrannical behavior, whether eagerly or by silent acquiescence? With almost weekly escalation of government power over their lives, and threats to the lives of innocent men, women, and children in foreign lands, why is there so little willingness to say "No! You have gone too far for decent people to any longer tolerate your actions!"?
America is in terrible straits. It is no exaggeration to suggest that it is well into an irreversible state of collapse. The national government is ruled by psychopaths, with wars being fabricated out of lies, forged "documents," and other deceptions. Two nations that have not posed any kind of threat to the United States have been singled out for unprovoked attacks. With the diminishing returns that have rendered the continued bullying of Iraqi and Afghan people boring to both advocates and opponents of these wars, Republican and Democratic officials now turn their attentions to another country that poses no threat to America: Iran.
Why is there no widespread moral revulsion by Americans against the murderous and destructive policies of its political system? If your son was out with his friends engaging in drive-by shootings, would you be as proud as the parents of those who do their killings on behalf of the state, and who emblazon their cars with bumper-stickers reading "proud parents of a Marine"?
Even if we don't wallow in such savagery, why are so many of us unwilling to openly condemn it? As the current police-state continues its growth, some may understandably fear the midnight knock on their front door that was implicit in the September, 2001 remark by White House Press Secretary, Ari Fleischer: people "need to watch what they say, watch what they do." The message gets through to many that, an administration that thumbs its nose at habeas corpus, embraces the use of torture, and openly regards the Constitution as nothing more than "a piece of paper," is a bully too dangerous to offend.
I suspect that many who secretly oppose what the state is doing believe that such "excesses" amount to little more than a temporary embarrassment; one that will pass upon the end of George W's final term; and that the election of a new president will bring things back to "normal." But it seems clear that what we are now experiencing in America is a new "norm"; that we are dealing not just with the idiosyncrasies and psychotic traits embedded in the present administration. The problem runs much deeper, I believe, as an expression of more sinister purposes of the political establishment that presumes ownership of the nation.
Is the American civilization likely to recover its bearings in time to reverse its moral and intellectual free-fall? In the absence of a fundamental transformation in thought and the nature of social systems, the answer is a firm "no." America - along with the rest of the West - will likely find itself suffering the fate of all previous civilizations. War-lusting empires collapse, but civilizations leave to the rest of mankind their creative and beneficial attributes. Thus were we bequeathed by the ancient Greeks the basic foundations for intelligent thought; the Romans their engineering skills; and the Persians their important work in the sciences and advanced forms of mathematics.
Western civilization built on these and other attributes to produce great works of literature, art, music, scientific discovery, and invention. But perhaps its greatest contribution to human well-being will prove to have been the confluence of such factors as individual liberty, the private ownership of property, and an understanding of the dynamics of the marketplace, to have produced the industrial revolution. In contrast with its present decline-and-fall, we should learn from history that civilizations are created and sustained by individuals; they are destroyed by collectives.
Recent civilizations have generally followed a westerly course: from Greece to Rome to Western Europe to Great Britain to America. Perhaps the beneficent qualities that once made America great - particularly respect for individuals pursuing their self-interests within free markets - will be embraced by Asian countries - perhaps China - as the creative energies that make for great civilizations continue their westward trek.
Perhaps centuries from now, historians - writing in different languages than English, and for intelligent minds of different cultures than ours - will ponder the question with which Gibbon and others left us after the fall of Rome: why? Having produced such free, prosperous, and humane social systems, why were the foundations of Western civilization so easily allowed to be torn away? As barbarians and looters began to ooze their way upwards through an expanding pool of muck, why were so many millions of people who had benefited from this civilization - and who stood to suffer the most from its collapse - so unwilling or unable to see what was at stake, and to say "No!"?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I see the problem as simple as, if English media (all forms) do not tell the truth, then people are unaware of how bad the situation is. As long as we are provided a scapegoat i.e. Iran / Russia, then noone thinks our own government is to blame or even if it is blatent that they are, we cannot do anything about it, so they carry on watching the soaps and reality TV, thinking , this does not effect them and if it does then that is just part of life. Not many people believe we can shape the Earth the way it should be.
The truth can be reported Globally in various languages, but we will not know it. Also, if you watch any real news i.e. Al Jazeera, then people still scoff, that it has been labelled and classified as bad / unreliable news.
Lastly , as mentioned in the article above, if you do have your eyes open and you take a day out of your comfortable life to say what needs to be said, you are likely to be labelled and unforeseen things may happen to your comfortable life.
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