Which Way Is America Heading?
At this historic moment, as climate-change-induced resource wars appear imminent and spontaneous revolutionary fervor is erupting around the world, it would be good for the people of America, and those who want to be America, to do a bit of soul searching. It would be wise to take this opportunity to ask some fundamental questions about US foreign policy which are continually ignored. Why do we maintain an all-but-irreversible worldwide system of over 1,000 military bases, stations and outposts? Why do our troops serve on the soil of 175 of the 192 member states of the United Nations? And why, at a time when our national debt is spiraling ominously out of control, are we spending more on our military than all the rest of the nations of the world combined?
Of course, the deeper psychological question at the heart of all this is: What are we so afraid of? Why are we trying so hard to control everything? Why can’t we relax and be less fearful of the other? And then, finally, there is this inspiring and uplifting question to ponder: Can we rediscover our ideals as a nation and learn once again how to cast that magical soft-power spell which so enthralled most of humanity in the decades after World War II?
Or is it too late now?
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secede or bust
No going back to the 50's. It is 2011, global warming is going to change everything, and then there is over population, a relentless scramble for fossil fuel ( oil), a brainwashed culture fed by the commercialism of the greedy aristocracy, the Internet that decapitates full communication between people, and a government run completely by who has the most money.
The only sane decision is to drop out of this culture. Stop paying taxes ( form a 501-d ), live below the poverty line with friends of like mind, and pioneer a new way to live...self-sufficient, and completely independent of the American military-information brainwashing regime.
secede or bust
No going back to the 50's. It is 2011, global warming is going to change everything, and then there is over population, a relentless scramble for fossil fuel ( oil), a brainwashed culture fed by the commercialism of the greedy aristocracy, the Internet that decapitates full communication between people, and a government run completely by who has the most money.
The only sane decision is to drop out of this culture. Stop paying taxes ( form a 501-d ), live below the poverty line with friends of like mind, and pioneer a new way to live...self-sufficient, and completely independent of the American military-information brainwashing regime.
Anonymous
Agreed
Anonymous
Agreed
Anonymous
Agreed. As well, those of us who are (accurately) thinking along these lines are going to have to start to link up in every way we can, at first tentatively and carefully, by email, and then, over time, in any one or more of other ways, depending upon the circumstances. Alone our power to make change in this way is small. Together, less so. [email protected]
Anonymous
Agreed. As well, those of us who are (accurately) thinking along these lines are going to have to start to link up in every way we can, at first tentatively and carefully, by email, and then, over time, in any one or more of other ways, depending upon the circumstances. Alone our power to make change in this way is small. Together, less so. [email protected]
tkaptur
FBI right here, contact email and all... See the fear they install, fuck it I'm adding him to my contacts list, i'd rather have a possible friend than not one at all with this stuff
tkaptur
FBI right here, contact email and all... See the fear they install, fuck it I'm adding him to my contacts list, i'd rather have a possible friend than not one at all with this stuff
Anonymous
Note the absence of a violent agenda in this approach. Nor is there much of any sort of directly political action of the kind to tremble the seats of governments... Only people working out better ways of working with people, directly. [email protected]
Anonymous
Note the absence of a violent agenda in this approach. Nor is there much of any sort of directly political action of the kind to tremble the seats of governments... Only people working out better ways of working with people, directly. [email protected]
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