...Segments of dominant and aggressive individuals are working together to subjugate the masses to secure resources and power; it's an age old story with many different chapters remixed over time.

In order for this story line to change, at least two courses of action must be taken:

1) A mass energized progressive movement must overcome the will of the few in power. This can be done in the most peaceful fashion, the sooner we act.

2) We as a species, must learn to fundamentally and honestly understand and confront the basic mechanisms of our human behavior; human nature as effected by nurture/experience. We need to enhance and consciously nurture the good aspects of human nature and find more harmless sustainable outlets for the more destructive aspects.

If either of these goals are ever going to happen, it's going to be us in the progressive movement who are going to have to inspire it; to inspire people to use the power of their voice.

Use your voice! you have a voice, we all do. We just have to find some effective ways to make our voices heard and/or SEEN. I have set up an initiative to allow people to have their voices SEEN in the physical world, its called My America Too. I consider it my investment in creating a better world.

This initiative is my attempt to create a visual foundation which utilizes significant symbolic meaning to allow people to express their individual voice while helping to build on a unifying progressive movement.

I hope this initiative will have a great impact on the American public to be made more aware of each others conviction to create positive change. We've got to show each other that we are out there in the real world for each other to get the sense that a critical mass is growing, of which we are all a part. We need a positive common theme with the depth of reality to get exited about.

It's time that we get excited about the prospects of re-creating our country based on positive progressive models of balance and sustainability. If we can build enough enthusiastic positive support then we have a shot at launching a real movement in this country.

Ultimately, we all have the same basic need to live humanely...no matter who we are. If we can figure out what our most basic humane needs are, then we may have a chance to begin to figure out the process to fulfill those needs.

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We need to peacefully reduce the human population to manage a stable economy surrounded by healthy wilderness, pristine oceans, lakes and streams. Otherwise, the growing population and its growing economy will pollute the Earth to extinction. It's already happening. -- How To Save The Earth

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are the ones that mention 9/11.

But it seems AlterNet consistently sides with the MSM in downplaying any facts related to that subject. This article seems to be no exception.

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1) I don't know if it's the right thing to do, but at this point, I'm leaning towards voting for Nader. I'm deeply disappointed in Obama, because after devoting my money and volunteer time to his primary campaign, I feel he's showing both a lack of gratitude for his supporters and more importantly a lack of foresight. I just don't know what we hope to accomplish by electing someone who appears to be nothing more politically than another Bill Clinton.

2) I don't see how the economy can ever recover with a disappearing manufacturing base. I think the effects NAFTA, CAFTA, PNTR Status for China and similar legislation is going to haunt us for a long time to come.

3) I suppose it's good for the environment for people to be driving smaller vehicles, as well as driving less in general and not building development after development. But as far as gas prices, I think we're entirely at the whim of the oil and gas industry unless we fundamentally alter the government's involvement in the matter.

4) If the issue would've genuinely been about preventing another nation from having WMD, as the administration told us, we would've attacked Israel too.

5) My problem with this is that he's applying a double standard to the telecoms that he is not willing to extend to everyone else. If I break the law, am I going to be immune from being penalized? I was talking to a doctor friend of mine and saying, if she gets sued for violating confidentiality, is Obama willing to grant her immunity?

6) It seem increasingly likely. For me, the more important question is what Obama will do with the situation if he inherits it. Will he let the war go on? Will he maintain another occupying force, Blackwell and all?

7) When I was learning about feminism, I gained the understanding that the concept included a range of values, the most of important of which in this election year is nonviolence. So from that feminist perspective, it seems like supporting the most aggressive militarist in the Democratic primaries would be self-defeating.

8) I work in the health care field as a social worker and see the red tape that has to be maneuvered around to get treatment provided. From my perspective, this is completely irrational. A single payer system with reasonable out of pocket costs seems like the most logical way to make the system efficient and productive.

9) I definitely believe gays should not be prohibited from marrying. Anyone paying taxes should enjoy equal benefits of citizenship.

10) I've had mixed feeling about the Supreme Court over the last few years. I've been very happy with the the decisions regarding the death penalty and how it pertains to youthful offenders, the mentally retarded and now non-murderous criminals. And I was thrilled to see the decision on Habeas Corpus come down. Sure, I'd like to see more such rulings, but I'm not sure I have enough faith in Obama having the political courage to make the best nominations.

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All of these are essentially domestic issues- even Iraq and Iran are more about us than they are about other people.

Here are some other important current issues:

Rape is a way of life for women in Sudan and that crisis is far from over. Call 1-800-GENOCIDE for a recorded call to find out what you can do.

The junta in Burma (Myanmar) just called the elections of 1990 "illegal." This is the election which was won by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is now under house arrest. And although 1,670 relief workers were just granted visas, the cyclone crisis is not over, in fact there has been even more recent flooding. (sign up at that last link to find out what you can do)

Ongoing food crisis in Haiti. The poorest citizens of the poorest nation in our hemisphere have resorted to eating mud to stem hunger pains. Wyclef Jean (rapper from the Fugees) is from Haiti, is raising money here.

Zimbabwe just had a stunningly illegitimate election and violence against opposition groups continues. The US just ended aid sanctions (which always seem to punish the wrong people), but Mugabe's government has been blocking aid.

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A domestic issue that I have yet to see covered on Alternet, but I would like to see it covered, is that the Justice Dept may allow the FBI to soon be able to use racial profiling and start investigations into "terrorism" without any evidence of wrongdoing.
The proposed program has been compared to J Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO.
I heard about this on NPR, of all places (since they don't usually have cutting-edge stories on there). But now it is hard to find almost anything about it anywhere in the news, using Google News anyway.
(Democracy Now reported on this 7/7/08 in their roundup. They say on their website that it was reported on by the AP, not exactly the lefty-press.)

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Have you read Green Island? - dark horse novel of the summer - the adults take over, the trolls want to stop them, the universal one decides to put humanity on trial for barbarism - be the first in your circle to be asking "Have you read it yet?!?"

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... John Q Public means absolutely nothing to politicals anymore!

the system is so far broken ATM that it was predicted
that this would happen to the Democratic nominee...

Get rid of special interests from politics...
well maybe just their ability to fund a sitting political as it gives them such a huge & unfair advantage over dissenting opponents....
then again maybe not, but their has to be a better way!

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