Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Friday, June 30, 2006
Rumsfeld's America, our denial
Donald Rumsfeld sez: “I know in my heart and my brain that America ain’t what’s wrong in the world.”
“Sorry, Mickey. The USA is a great nation. It’s not the problem. Folks like you are.”
(From an e-mail I got the other day)
The vast majority of humans in this world live in abject poverty while those who don’t live their lives in such a manner as to threaten every living being on the planet. Many of us know this but it doesn’t seem to be enough to inspire more than pithy bumper stickers and increased sales of recycled toilet paper.
Let’s check the scorecard:
*587 billionaires are worth more than 170 countries
*Nearly 4 billion people around the world earn less than $1,500 a year
Don’t kid yourself: There are no innocent bystanders when your money and/or your silence and/or your rhetoric support the world’s most powerful military and the corporate status quo.
Ward Churchill sez: “We must seek nothing less than the dismemberment and dissolution of every statist/corporate entity in the world. All of them. No exceptions.”
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Here’s an old blog post of mine that has grown up to become a full-fledged article: Fear of a Keith Moon Planet.
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