Still the World Situation
Nifty though simplistic overview archived at Solidarity Economy (one should never forget that sometimes these people frighten me), which someone commenting somewhere else brought up for ridicule by other commentators, as per webdom.
Nevertheless, a fisty read in North-South, Left-Right, Neo-Comm, dichotomy.
Where to Begin? Organizing in the Present for the Sake of the Future
It includes points such as:
* The Emergence of Open Hegemonism in the U.S Ruling Elite The U.S. ruling class has regrouped into two main camps, the Globalists and the Hegemonists. The first is tied mainly to the global capitalists and primarily seeks to dominate through multilateral, multinational arrangements for world stability, governance, and security. The second - more reactionary and dangerous at present - also seeks global rule and stability, but now openly talks of Empire, the American Century, Pax Americana, preventive and pre-emptive war, and the military subordination of all other potential rival powers far into the future. It has taken the reactionary crimes of 9/11 as an excuse for an endless state of war abroad, an assault on civil liberties at home, and for plundering the country’s wealth, and the wealth of others, for the permanent feeding of its war machine.
* The Emergence of Theocratic Fascism as a Danger to Peace and Democracy Globalization and its discontents have also invoked a response among a number of reactionary elites who have wrapped a reactionary message in religious garb. While the most widespread is among Islamic fundamentalists, it also takes Christian, Jewish and Hindu forms. Appealing to anxieties from uneven development and the breakdown of older cultures and moralities, it often attacks all the ideas of modernization, the emancipation of women, and the Enlightenment values of separation of church and state, and religious tolerance and liberty. In its terrorist expression, it is prone to massive criminality and a grave threat to peace and security.
What we really need in life is more classic Star Trek but less Charons. That would solve everything, if you follow my Tokyo drift into popcult trashmouth.
But I am deadly taoistically serious, as only befits a memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“So we must fix our vision not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but upon the positive affirmation of peace.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.