← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Enkidu
Thread ID: 12402 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2004-02-19
2004-02-19 02:07 | User Profile
Not to get into the USA vs. Europe thing, but the USA has really begun to seen an alien, uncomfortable place to me in the last decade or so.
This article has a social equality, open border flavor, but it still makes me wish that I'd been in Barcalona to see this. Odd we get the impresion from TalmudVision that these marches have maybe an hundred thousand people. Making Europe our enemy is going to jump up and bite us really badly. I'm still waiting for Jose Maria Aznar's next election.
Enkidu
The Other Superpower: Fraternity, Solidarity and the World's People, February, 18, 2004
[url]http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_5199.shtml[/url]
ââ¬ÅA year ago I was in Barcelona, Spain, participating in the February 15th worldwide march protesting against what was to be the coming American invasion of Iraq.*
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To Noam Chomsky, however, a second superpower has emerged that may soon rival the United States. He is not referring to any one state or nation, though, which is still some years away from rivaling the US (think China). This new superpower is the growing fraternity and solidarity among the peopleââ¬â¢s of the world that are uniting in pursuit of justice, equality, nonviolence and human rights. This power is all of us, six billion humans, from all continents and walks of life, of all shades of the mutated human skin pigmentation phenomenon, having the joint potential of the greatest energy the world has ever witnessed.ââ¬Â