American diversity

While the American President tries again his dictatorial powers, not every American happily agrees with his follies.

One of the icons of investigate journalism, Seymour M. Hersh, asks in his article The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?

His analysis of the situation in the Middle-East, and the connection of terror groups with Vize-President Cheney's office should reap some mainstream media echo, but the media simply ignores Hersh.

Hersh broke the story about the massacres in My Lai during the Vietnam war, and build a network of contacts during his long career that makes even unnamed sources credible. His named sources include more than two sides of this complicated constellation.

Something seems to be wrong with the American government. Even talk show host Rosie O'Donnell joined the conspiracy nuts, or rather asks in her blog why WTC 7 collapsed. Besides other doubts about the latest propaganda coming out of Brain-Washington.

And again, mainstream media doesn't care, besides labeling her as insane. Instead of no longer trusting the government, most people decide to rather no longer trust their neighbour. Terror(tm) is per definition linked with islamic fundamentalism, and to assume that the CIA or even Cheney financed these groups.... is a thought crime.

That doesn't stop talk radio host Alex Jones in his aerial info war. He fights tyranny where ever he can find it, and that's in a lot of places. Paul Watson's take on the Khalid Sheik Mohammed confession offers a good insight of the mysterious world of government sponsored terrorism.

It looks like activism is rising again. Maybe we don't live yet in a world as happy and sterile as our daily soaps suggest. Government seems out of control, but some people still believe in a better world for all human beings, even though they have the 21st century motherf***er blues.

PS: I didn't want to end this posting with a nasty word, so I'd rather plug the dytopian article Survival At The Pleasure Of The President.

Clash of fundamentalism

Not everyone agrees with Huntington's idea of the Clash of Civilisations. The British author Tariq Ali rather calls the current situation Clash of Fundamentalism, and his analysis about the diversity and history of the Muslim communities world wide, and its parallels in the Christian world provides probably a better background to the Middle-East conflict than the daily news yarn.

But not matter how you call this historic (or hysteric) era we live in, Islamophobia is noticeable even in multicultural Australia, and undoubtedly people in Afghanistan and Iraq won't embrace the attempt to mold their societies after the American ideal of freedom and democracy.

Politicians seems to have failed to find a peaceful solution to this conflict, but maybe people can have their voices heard if they unite. Online petitions become more and more popular, and personally I like the petition to Stop the clash of civilisations .

Of course I don't assume that this idea is endorsed by the PIS, but maybe some of you feel inclined to do a little bit more than nothing, and have at least a look at the compelling video accompanying this petition.