THANK YOU SCOTT WALKER!!!

I truly feel sorry for any anti-union right wing republican who stumbles upon this post looking for support, though for those of you who do, this may make you re-think your support for governor Walkers tactics. Because they are backfiring big time. The nature of politics is a push pull game in every direction, if you cannot foresee the results of your actions you may act boldly and aggressively pursue your agenda against the will of the majority of parties involved. Scott Walker did not get elected to office in the same way americans have elected their leaders over the course of american history. Our democracy has changed only slightly over the centuries to allow for more participants, and still not all americans are eligible to vote. But the recent changes in campaign finance regulations (or deregulations) are the final move in this long drawn out corporate coup to control Americo©

Scott Walker was bought and paid for by the multi-billionaire Koch Bros and from his first day in office it was clear exactly whose agenda was being implemented, Koch Industries© Scott Walker will prove to be very much like George W. Bush, 10% politician 90% puppet. As a result he doesn't understand or care about the delicate balance that is democracy, he only knows who pays him, and what for. He has a job to do, and when he's done, he has a job with Koch Industries© Not a real job of course, he'll be a "consultant" and get paid millions for sitting at home and making an occasional phone call or "business trip". Essentially, he'll be (or is) a corporate agent, not unlike a CIA agent, constantly on missions to defend or extend the empire. This is what we call the "revolving door" between politics and corporations, many of our politicians are "incorporated" into this process so that the line between the corporations and the bodies elected to regulate them has vanished completely.

The problem with this kind of chutzpah, is that it's actually pretty naive. We've been watching the corporate takeover of the planet unfold for many, many years and it's often compared to boiling frogs very slowly so that they don't realize what's happening until it's too late. But the Koch Bros aren't satisfied with a snails pace to progress, they've decided to kick it up a notch, accelerate the process, and who knows, maybe they know something we don't. But I know something they don't know, we the people are the greatest super power in the world. Our only problem is complacency, we're content to watch the world fall apart through a TV screen as long as disaster hasn't come knocking on our door,... yet. But the Koch Bros and their boy Scott Walker have ripped the mask off of the class war and the whole world is watching. Now there are about a dozen Tea Bag republican governors who are doing the same and more to destroy the unions on behalf of the corporations. And the people are beginning to rise up, I say beginning because I know how long this battle will go on.

In trying to destroy the unions with such callous brutality, Scott Walker and the rest of the Koch whores in office have created a vivid revival of the union movement and solidarity among the workers of the world. I for one would like to extend my deepest gratitude to Mr. Walker and the Koch Brothers, THANK YOU!!!!! I'm also happy that they have taken the corruption of government and our electoral process to exciting new heights, because it is more important than you may think to shake the peoples faith in their governments. Now that the frogs can see we are boiling, we can begin to take the steps that can and will bring us the change we can believe in, sorry Obama, it's our turn. Even as we are seeing heroes and heroines emerge from the Wisconsin democrats, I urge you to withdraw your support from the electoral system, republicans and democrats. In fact, if you really want to see the end to this insatiable and unsustainable capitalist machine, vote republican. Especially if it's Palin 2012, you better believe that would unite the majority (workers) against the ruling class in a hurry. And it would set the stage for the Global Uprising that can and will take place.

It cannot be more crucial that we think outside of the box of nationalism, that we use this moment in time to unite the workers of the world to fight for equal rights, human rights, for all people of the world, everywhere, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, etc. Equal rights are not equal until they are universal, and until democracy is global it exists in name only. We have been taught the lessons and it's time to implement them, we know the workers have the most power with their hands in their pockets, thank you Utah Phillips! And we know that the workers of the world can unite, we have nothing to lose but our chains, thank you Karl Marx! I know, "Marx" is a bad word in america, but why? Most people in america have never read a single word he wrote so they rely on what they have heard, and if you listen to the main stream media you've only hear "Marx=evil" and "Socialism=bad". And this is the real reason the unions must go, without the unions carefully explaining to the american worker the dynamics between their bosses and their politicians most of the poor working class are vulnerable to this kind of propaganda.

This election season, VOTE GLOBAL UPRISING 2012!

False American Idol

I'm not one to quote biblical passages, old or new testaments. But there is something significant in the concept of idolatry, the worship of objects or ideas. Obviously one can debate the definition of "worship" until Jesus and the cows come home, but if we have a modern equivalent of "worship" it certainly describes the way most people feel about money. We live in a world overflowing with real, tangible things that deserve our respect, appreciation, and perhaps a bit of the worship we give to our money. Unfortunately, the world we live in is also littered with false things, concepts, ideas that exist only on paper and in the minds of men and women. And it's these things we tend to give our full respect, even to the level of worship.

So what's "real" and what's "false?" Well, people are real, the planet is real, mountains, rivers, forests are all very real, even towns and cities are real tangible things with naturally defined boundaries. What's false? A mortgage is false, corporations are false, and most importantly nations and governments are false. These are ideas, and not very good ones, they only exist in our minds, not unlike a spell of magic. We don't see nations, we see flags, we see politicians, we see maps with lines, colors, and words superimposed over the continents. But nations simply do not exist, they are false idols not worthy of our respect, appreciation, and especially worship. And what is "patriotism" if not political worship?

Nations follow the blueprint of kingdoms and empires, an open ended format allowing for constant conquest. Kings, emperors, presidents, and prime ministers all see the world in the same way, it's all there for the taking. They collect cities, towns, and villages the same way a child collects baseball cards, they care less for the quality of each town than they do for the quantity of towns. Though each town and city in the collection is very real, the collection is conceptual, temporal, false. The cities of the ancient kingdoms of Europe are still there, still thriving, hustling, and bustling with people, real people in real cities. But the kingdoms have all but vanished, their banners and contracts hang on walls in museums as proof that people once worshiped them as we do our nations today.

America is different you say? It's not a kingdom or an empire like those old outdated forms of government? Wrong, it's far more the same than different, and equally false and temporal. One day people will look back on America as we do on the Roman and British empires and wonder why so many people allowed themselves to be brainwashed into acceptance and complacence. Wonder how we could allow a handful of people to become more rich and powerful than the rest of the population combined. They won't feel any sense of obligatory affection for these lifeless banners, these lying politicians, this heartless war machine. In contrast, as I write this I am committing an act of treason, to advocate for the ultimate destruction and failure of the United States of America, which I do on a near constant basis. This is proof that America is a false idol, as insecurity is a constant state for all false entities, they are never safe from reality which is perpetually undermining falsehoods.

It doesn't please me to speak this obvious truth, we still live in the age of false idols and as we speak people are killing and dying in their names. These false idols are only as powerful as we collectively believe they are and unfortunately that is an awesome power and it's doing far more harm than any imagined good we can attribute to them. But all of those great things people thank their governments for are not the deeds of nations, but people, nations can do nothing for you, they are just ghosts in our imaginations. In fact, you can't spell "imagination" without "nation", perhaps we should all pledge our allegiances to the imagination, a far more real thing than anything that comes from it. And you can't really remove "patriarchy" from "patriotism", yet another overt subordination of the feminine. When you wake up from the american dream and realize the american nightmare something very real begins to emerge, the planet. It's time to drop our mindless patriotism for this false american idol and become devoted to reality, to Earth!

Our Mother Earth is waiting for us all to wake up from this spell of patriotism and become Matriots: those who put the reality of Earth above all false idols.

Musical Uprising

Artist: Jasirix/ produced by Cynik Lethal and directed by Paradise Gray

This is not one of my usual posts in essay format but my attempt to make this video viral as rapidly as possible. This pro-worker hip-hop masterpiece was filmed live on location at various rallies in Madison, Wisconsin over the past weeks as the state workers unions and their many supporters are fighting for their rights to collective bargaining. Asking unions to give up their collective bargaining rights is like asking corporations to give up their limited liability status, though that would be a good idea. I'm keeping this brief so please repost this, we are the Global Uprising we have been waiting for!

Lyrics:

Scott Walker works for multi billionaires
John Boehner works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

Sarah Palin works for multi billionaires
American workers vs multi billionaires
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have a dime to spare

Can main street get a bailout
Tell the president our checks weren't mailed out
Tell the house of representatives and senate
And whatever business got the stimulus and spent it
Now they getting record profit that's tripling with no limits
But they cutting jobs and unemployment benefits have ended
How we gone live with no income coming in
And the little help we get is cut from the budget then
What's the role of government
Do workers stand a chance if multi billionaires are running it
Oh now you worried bout the deficit and cutting it
But when them banks needed billions you had enough for them.
Them car companies you had bucks for them
2 wars rebuilding 2 countries guess we stuck with them
the average citizen just ain't lucky then
cause we be getting pimped so I guess we getting fucked again

Rush Limbaugh works for multi billionaires
Bill O'Reilly works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

Sean Hannity works for multi billionaires
Crazy Glenn Beck works for multi billionaires
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have a dime to spare


When did the American worker become the enemy
Why is wanting a living wage such a penalty
What happened to justice and liberty
These billionaire haters wanna crush us literally
On the box is Murdoch and his foxes
And if you watch it you might as well be an ostrich
They terrorists cause they hold facts hostage
24 hours straight of we hate what Barack did
If you want to unionize your a communist
But if you buy a congressman they just call you a lobbyist
It's so obvious but here's where the problem is
they act like regular Americans but they sloppy rich
Why you think they wanna cut taxes
cause every single one of them in the higher brackets
This ain't white or black it's class warfare time for action
Just look at wide the gap is

American workers vs multi billionaires
The middle class vs multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

Rupert Murdoch is multi billionaires
the Koch brothers are multi Billionaire
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have a dime to spare

REPOST! THANK YOU!

Trickle Down Reaganomics

I'm always surprised that tax cuts for wealthy corporations and individuals aren't more unpopular than they are, like "uprising" unpopular. But if/when the debate arises in our social and political discourse the ones defending these tax cuts have only one arrow in their quiver: Trickle down economics. The unfortunate reality is that the only thing that seems to trickle down from above is this kind of bull shit. The false premise behind this theory is that wealthy people will spend more of their money if they don't have to pay so much to the IRS. If you replace the word "wealthy" with the word "poor" the statement is demonstrably true. Poor people love to shop, even if it's for basic necessities and not the fun stuff like cars and high def flat screen televisions. Rich people already have everything they need and most of everything they could ever want, but they do want more money even if they'll never feasibly need it.

Most people around the world do not consider their "worth", most people don't even have a savings account. For the upper class of this aristocratic planet there is no end to the status symbols and trophy possessions they can acquire, but with money they actually have a numeric system for their wealth and power. The wealthy want something most people have never dreamed of, they want to be on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in America. They have a pile of money and they are carefully grooming and growing it, never satisfied with being mere millionaires. There is an art to growing your net worth and a major part of the skill required is eliminating leaks and holes where their money slips away. Money does not trickle down the social ladder, it goes specifically where it is needed to maintain and grow the power of the rich. And the more money they add to their net worth, the less there is in circulation for the people who need it for basic survival.

Of course "trickle down" is meant as a metaphor, nobody actually believes money is a liquid subject to gravity. So let's follow this metaphor to discover (or uncover) the mentality of it. What sorts of life forms live off of the water that trickles down to them? Crustaceans? Rats? Insects? What is America, a castle and most of us live in the dungeon? And where is the money? Shouldn't it just be raining money outside with no obligation, no strings attached? Many people have found similar fault with the word "trickle" but what about the word "down?" Are the rich exposing their true colors by putting themselves above the rest of us? I happen to believe that the rich are beneath the poor, or as Jesus called us: The Meek. And if you rejigger "trickle down economics" it can actually make a lot of sense. Money does trickle down from the workers who actually earn it to the bottom feeders who "own" everything.

Contrary to Orwellian belief, the rich do not have more because they work harder. Those who work the hardest have the least and those who work the least have the most. It's a simple fact that no person can become a millionaire on an hourly wage, a lifetime is not long enough even with double over time. The wealthy are literally (not metaphorically or hyperbolically) parasites on the planetary population of hard working souls, and when a host is asked to live off of what trickles down from a parasite the host is near death. "But wait" you say "The rich are the ones who give us jobs!" The rich do not take their personal wealth and put it into creating jobs, they invest it in limited liability corporations who move jobs overseas to maximize profits. And middle class business owners don't put their private wealth into the payroll system either, they rely almost exclusively on credit from banks to pay workers. The banks took our 700 Billion dollar bailout on the promise that they would use it to extend credit for this purpose, it's too bad we didn't get it in writing.

So how is this connected to our current situation? Well we may be rid of Bush but we still have the Bush tax cuts, the most blatant giveaway to the wealthy in my lifetime. And now we have several states following the union busting class warfare of recently erected governor of Wisconsin, Scott (The Imperial) Walker. Scott Walker walked into a budget due for a surplus and immediately gave corporations over 100 million dollars in tax breaks to encourage them to come to the state. He then demanded the money from workers and pushed for the quick passage of a bill that would take away unions collective bargaining rights effectively destroying the unions. So we may not be hearing about trickle down economics specifically, but we are hearing the part about the wealthy corporations being the giver of jobs, when in fact they take them away at every opportunity. So the supporters of Scott Walker are claiming that the unions are responsible for chasing away the corporations and compelling them to move jobs to China where the people aren't overpaid and under worked.

The wealthy calling the unions over paid and under worked is the height of absurdity, irony, and of course, classic republican hypocrisy.

Shut Up America!

The people of Libya are fighting for their freedom under a dictator of the last four decades, and just like Tunisia and Egypt they must fight this battle alone. In case the Obama administration (and specifically Hillary Clinton) is not aware of the simple fact that they have zero credibility among the people of the region, I'd like to instruct them now accordingly. Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton: Shut your big mouths, you're not helping! In fact, you can only do harm. Any harsh words you may think you have some authority to dole out to Gaddafi actually justifies his claims that the protests are being fomented by foreign powers. There are people who are being brutally murdered at this very moment because Gaddafi believes (or claims to believe) they are puppets under your influence.

There is nothing more disgusting than to see the parade of US diplomats marching through Egypt claiming to have supported the people against Mubarak. Perhaps the most shameful display comes not surprisingly from John McCain who described the protests sweeping northern Africa as a virus that must be stopped. When he said this people were dying under the corrupt regime of Mubarak and his words lent legitimacy to those who violently opposed the uprising. Of course as a seasoned politician he spoke with no real knowledge of the plight of the Egyptian people, instead he was reacting in a knee jerk fashion from his own views of American foreign policy in the region. And within a week after referring to them as a dangerous virus, he was there in person telling the people of Egypt that he supported their recent uprising.

John McCain saw this as just another platform to grind out the rhetoric that makes him look youthful, he took the opportunity to claim that the peoples' uprising in Egypt was a "repudiation of Al Queda." Whu!? Al Queda!? Was John McCain dozing off for the better part of the last decade? There is absolutely zero evidence of Al Queda presence or activity within the borders of Egypt, nor was there a single link between Bin Laden and Mubarak. In fact, Mubarak was our dictator, our terrorist, our puppet whose tyranny destroyed the lives of millions of Egyptians. If anything, the peoples uprising in Egypt was a repudiation of the US government and their manipulative policies in the region and around the world. I wonder why John McCain would fail to see this simple fact? Could it be because he is perhaps the most imperial republican in his party, whose intent of maintaining American hegemony is rooted in the cold war mentality that he was born into?

What is happening in Libya is notably different from the events that played out in the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings, and it may seem that America could play a positive role if they intervene on behalf of the protesters. But this is the fallacy of good war and it's time we take a good look at history and admit that the truth is always a selfish and petty ploy to extend and maintain Americas' influence and power. If the US cared about saving the lives of thousands of people they could instead save the lives of millions by doing nothing. Any and all military intervention in that region will unfold very much like the Iraq war did. Remember how easy it was going to be to remove Saddam Hussein and bring democracy to Iraq? Strange how it all turned out, who could have foreseen the peoples resentment of the massive US military occupation of their home land?

So once again I address Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton: Shut the hell up and leave those people alone! You can take your wagging finger and chiding tone and go wag it in the mirror at yourselves. You are the shameless dictators of the world and you have no intention of returning power to the people. You work for the corporations and banks who needlessly horde the riches of the world while the people live in desperate poverty. If you want to help people against tyrants why don't you use your power against the big boys on Wall Street? Why don't you get all FDR on the corporate puppets in the republican party? Why not look at the sad and pathetic state of your affairs in your own backyard and do something about it, for a change. I voted for change I can believe in, and what I got was an escalated Class War waged by the rich and powerful, and you Mr. Obama are on the wrong side. But you will soon find that you're own people are uprising and there will be little you can do about it or any other uprising, because you will be down falling.

And good riddance!

I wrote the above post on 3/2/11 when it was still spring in the Arab world. I'm adding this video on 10/24/11 after the assassinations of both Osama BinLaden and most recently Muammar Gaddafi. We also have a little uprising going on here in the US and no surprise, very recent words from Obama and Clinton are drastically, overtly hypocritical. So please watch this video if you feel I was too harsh in my demand that they "Shut up!" and deal with their own affairs. Enjoy American hypocrisy at it's finest! 

Class War Criminals

The concept of a class war is somehow omnipresent and yet not there, a reference to nowhere. We hear about it once in a while usually when right wing conservatives are commenting on union activity in the news. On a rare occasion you may hear the opposing version when corporate friendly union busting politicians are attacking the hard won rights of the workers. But we are now entering a heightened stage of this mystical, metaphoric war in which both sides will be fighting for their very existence. Though we've never heard the term "class war" in most history classes, it's somehow more important, more prevalent, and more instructive in our current world of multinational corporate power than any military war in the history of the planet. In a way it's also the longest running war when you begin to see the consistent thread of aristocracy through the bloody legacy of empires from roman to american. Maybe it's time we include a history of class in history class, to teach about the class war on par with WWII.

Clearly the most notable difference between a military war and the class war is the role of nations, or the seeming insignificance of their roles. Wars are most often visited from one nation upon another, both with massive resources to draw from. When a nation wages a war it is overwhelmingly the poor to middle class (or bottom half) who put their actual bodies on the lines in the ultimate sacrifice. But this is not how class war works because the wealthy simply do not fight, and when they do join the military they are rarely if ever in harms way and historically enter the ranks at officer levels. Wealthy people have too much to live for, they cannot be expected to fight in infantry positions and therefore their numbers are severely low, especially when compared to the middle to lower classes who make up the bulk of fighting forces around the globe. Imagine if the class war were waged in the same military manner as WWI and II, the odds would be overwhelmingly in the favor of the poor. The rich and powerful upper 10% of the world population are not dumb enough to challenge the bottom 90% militarily. On the contrary, they're smart enough to get the bottom to do virtually all of the bidding for the top for a sliver of the reward.

In this very real war for the power and proprietary rights to the worlds resources, Fox news (or Faux news) is the pillar of propaganda for the rich and powerful, like the Koch brothers (pronounced "Coke") who have together bank rolled the entire tea party phenomena and all of it's puppet political candidates and campaigns. These billionaire cowboys have always been manipulating our so called democracy, but since the supreme courts handy work turned our corporations into "people" in a plot copy and pasted right from the script of Frankenstein, they can shop for the election results they want the same way they bid for fine art at Christie's in Rockefeller center. And wherever the Koch bros want them, there is Faux News repeating ad nauseum the talking points the wealthy corporate interests program them to say. Fox and all of the tea party candidates are little more than billion dollar Koch whores. There has never been a clearer demonstration of the corrosive effects of capitalism on democracy. The cohesion between Fox news and the republican party is seamless, and the claim of "fair and balanced" is designed to convince weak minded people that the far right is the center, effectively eliminating the left in a feat of overt Orwellian mind control.

There is no question that money makes a difference in elections, the only point that could be debated is exactly how much of a difference it makes in each individual election. And there is no doubt where the majority of money is coming from and where it goes thanks to many organizations tracking large campaign contributions from corporations and wealthy individuals. The average american doesn't contribute financially to political campaigns, most don't even bother to vote in midterm elections. So it's simple to conclude that the difference that money makes is overwhelmingly in the favor of the wealthy corporations and individuals who pitch the most into the pot. The one real variable is the significant sector of the poor who vote republican, but those numbers have been historically lower than the poor to middle class who vote for democrats. So for the sake of argument, let's be conservative and say that without any campaign contributions the races would be close, within a 5-10% margin. The difference that money makes only needs to be from 11-15% to ensure a republican victory at the polls. The reason democrats still win however is that without the extra money much fewer people would vote republican and that 11-15% difference just isn't enough.

In the state of Wisconsin there is a powerful, peaceful, peoples' uprising going on (as of this writing) over the recently "elected" republican governor Scott walkers' overt union busting tactics reminiscent of pre-FDR america. Walker has taken the gloves off making it easy to rip the mask off of the class war that is usually so subtle in it's ferocious appetite for destruction. He came into the drivers seat of a state that was well within budget and on track to have a surplus and declaring the state "open for business" (or "for sale") he immediately gave away over one hundred million dollars in corporate tax breaks putting the state into deficit. In the same stroke and without batting an eyelash he demanded that public workers make the sacrifices to pay for the hole in the budget, AND that their unions give up collective bargaining rights, the backbone of union power. Asking unions to give up their collective bargaining rights is like asking corporations to give up their limited liability status. When a somewhat weak union response came back to say "We'll make the sacrifices of our hard earned rights, but we won't give up our right to collective bargaining." Walker was uncompromising, unions must go so corporations could feel safe to call Wisconsin home. Walker beat his democrat rival by a mere 5%, this governor was purchased almost exclusively by the Koch bros for the purpose of destroying the unions and now his work has begun.

This is Class warfare union busting at it's finest, or worst, but one thing is certain, It's on. In the words of Florance Reese's classic union song it's time for everyone in the world to ask themselves deep down "Which side are you on?" The Koch bros and their cabal of Koch head republicans are watching this battle for Madison very closely, if Scott (The Imperial) Walker can destroy unions in their long time stronghold of Wisconsin, they are going to do it everywhere until there is nothing left for working people in this world. It's not as if they say amongst themselves "Lets destroy most unions, but leave a few here and there." they want them all dead, much more than they care to seek and destroy any terrorist hiding in a cave somewhere. And they argue somewhat effectively that our unions are driving jobs out of the nation, as if union members voted to have the factories moved overseas. The only reason the factories go where people won't defend themselves is because their unscrupulous owners want to exploit labor for their own disproportionate gains. Madison may not be Tunisia, but america is not the middle east, I see in Madison, Wisconsin a spark that can begin to resolve thousands of years of inequities in a mass global uprising of the people, by the people, and for the people.

If the unions must be sacrificed so must the system that justifies their existence.

Egypt Rising

When a great mass of people come together into the streets, uniting across many differences and cultural boundaries to express themselves with a clear message, the very least we can do is watch, listen to their stories, hear their cries of corruption. So let's look at Egypt, so often overlooked in such a consistently troubled region, despite it's border with Palestine, Israel, Sudan, and Libya it's so rarely in the headlines. The average American knows just a few basic facts about pyramids, pharaohs, the Sahara desert and the Nile delta, we know more about it's ancient political system than it's current politics. It's one of those countries (the vast majority) that Americans know little of until they bomb it to kingdom come. And perhaps this has something to do with the fact that it's had the same leader/dictator for three decades, political stagnation, not much to see.

The phrase "life under Saddam" became redundant in the Bush years, and we were all led to believe that Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator and life was pretty much hell for the people of Iraq. Life is now pretty much Hell for the people of Iraq and it's hard not to look back to "life under saddam" and notice how, at least relatively, life was somewhat better. So how does "life under Mubarak" compare to Saddams' Iraq? We heard a lot about the torture Saddams forces would dole out and the "rape rooms" that as far as I can recall were never found, and I assume that's where the WMDs were hiding. Torture was prevalent under Saddam but so it was under Mubarak as well, and when we wanted to outsource torture it was good to have a friend with experience. If only Saddam had offered his morbid services to the US we could have done business and been allies like our good friend Mubarak.

But not only has the US been a strong ally of the Mubarak regime, Egypt is the second largest recipient of US military aid after Israel. And Israel is another thing Saddam and Mubarak had in common, though Saddam held fast to the popular Arab sentiment of solidarity with Palestinians and their plight under Israels' aggressive expansionism. Israel and Iraq don't share a border but they can easily lob missiles over Syria and Jordan and of course they did during the first Bushs' war with Saddam. We did fund and arm Saddam back when he was fighting the Iranians, whom we were also funding and arming, but that was a long time ago and we haven't spoken much since then. So Saddam remained a potential threat to Israel while Mubarak and his family were growing fat off of their friends in Washington DC, the latest reports show his family is worth 70 Billion dollars while the people of Egypt live in squaller.

Of course the majority of the aid that we "give" to nations like Egypt must be spent with US corporations in the military industrial complex so it's just another way to funnel tax dollars into the war machine. In a way this is the worst face of the American war machine, making war our biggest export, encouraging the acquisition and use of ever more powerful weaponry the same way a car salesman would encourage you to go for a Sunday drive. And of course on the domestic front we also export police suppression, torture, kidnapping, and other horrible acts by people in positions of power protected from prosecution. Though Saddams' corruption became quickly untenable for George W. Bush, Mubarak was totally cool with him, I guess he was a good dictator. As long as we could buy an ally for Israel we could care less just how evil that particular dictator happened to be.

Barack Obama is not Bush and he is not Mubarak, but despite his inspiring speech to the Egyptian people and the Arab world he carefully worked behind the scenes to maintain the status quo in Egypt against the will of it's people. Now Mubarak is gone (as of this writing) and the state department will be working overtime to make sure that the next leader of Egypt is equally friendly, or equally greedy. It is one thing to support a dictatorship and work closely with that regime to commit crimes against humanity as in the secret renditions, but the Obama administration is actively working against democracy, to prevent it, and/or weaken it. They're working over-overtime because they are doing the very same thing in Haiti at the same time as the democratically elected president Aristide is finally being issued a passport to return to his own country after our government (along with the governments of Canada and France) removed him from his home and country at gun point.

So what will happen now? Could the spark of revolution spread across the Arab world? Or the entire world? Could the people of Saudi Arabia take to the streets demanding a democratically elected government? What about the democratically elected Hamas in Palestine, don't they deserve to rule the country they won in a fair election? You may say they are a terrorist group but state terrorism is a part of the blueprint of power, in a way it merely proves they have what it takes to rule. And the bigger question is... Can it happen here? It will happen here, but what will it take? This is the headquarters of global hegemony, it's hard to say how a real American revolution might look but it can't look much different than what we've been watching in Egypt. Remember, there never has been an American revolution because there was no nation called "America" before 1776, and what we call the American revolution has given us an aristocratic model of democracy in which the wealthy have an overwhelming advantage.

We the people of the world can unite, we can overcome the tyrannies of the institutions of power.