And then in Asia there’s the two Koreas.
  “Mr. Obama called North Korea a starving nation whose economic failures were visible even from space, where at night “the brilliant lights of Seoul” can be seen giving way “to the utter darkness of the North.”—NYT Something of a put-down, no?
  And on top of that, there’s the worldwide renenwable energy problem. Some people look into the not very distant future and predict that the “working poor” in the U.S. who are not working and hence more poor, will be starving because of Wall Street and corporate failure to put their country before their obscene bank accounts.
  And the brilliant lights of New York and L.A. may “give way to the utter darkness” of the North, South, East and West. You won’t be able to see them from outer space, which, hopefully will still be there as black as ever, beautifully decorated with planets, constellations and nebulae. 
  But what about the utter darkkness of human hearts and minds that have brought technology to the place where every human being on earth could be fed, clothed and sheltered if a “fair sharing of the world’s resources” were instituted.  Where are the bright lights?
  Not that technology alone can or will do it. Ordinary people have to order the technology to do it. That means they have to control their governments for the common benefit and limit the gains of special interests, owners, lenders, stock holders, managers and board members. Some countries are doing a good deal better than we are, so we know it’s possible.
Visiting India and not acknowledging the guilt of Monsanto and putting responsibility directly on Monsanto to clean up and pay back shows once more a willingness to be overpowered by corporations that are against people. 
  Visiting South Korea and talking about “defending Japan and South Korea” against North Korea, and negotiating only if North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons program is typical dare-and-scare foreign policy.
  A lot of people who voted for Obama expected better. We have two years to make it better.  If we don’t, the world will be so “out of balance” that “the center cannot hold.”  “Center”? Balance (think justice), right sharing of woeld resources (think the scales of justice. We all know all this.  Everyone in the world is in some sense waiting, waiting, waiting….for corporations to clean up destructive business practices that create massive poverty,pollution, ignorance, poor health and pain.
  If they do it voluntarily, no coercion will be necessary and the entire world will breathe a sigh of relief.  If ....
  Sorry. Every time I get on the subject of foreign policy and the injustice it helps to create, I can’t stop—it’s the Toyota syndrome—broken accelerator.

“Democracy” (whatever that is!) is only the pretext for the U.S. behavior and policies.

The real context is Money (the largest amounts possible channelling from poor countries to rich corporations). It goes by various euphemisms like “economic development” “developing the world’s resources”, “sharing technology”, “creating better relations,” “bringing the world closer together, 
“privitization”, “debt re-structuring,”  etc. (In other words, “I’ll buy this from you if you’ll buy that from me.”)

People don’t really matter in the world pf finamce—partly because they don’t want to, partly because they are not wanted, partly because of ignorance, partly because they have to get some food for tonight, partly because nobody pays any attention to them, partly because they are busy online, commenting on sites like Truthdig.Thousands of “reasons.”

The gap between the two worlds gets wider unless more than a few people realize the possibilities of all our hi- and lo- tech communications and the real possibility of getting together and arranging a world peace based on minimum standardss of justice and fair dealing. Then we have to get out of bed and go for it. But first we have to care, deeply.

LMAO at his lie:

“an effective nullification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, until then a foundation block of American foreign policy.”

Riiiiight if you ignore places like Israel and Pakistan and if you pretend the NPT doesn’t give rights to Iran to develop peaceful nuclear energy.

not much is written ab. india or china. china, if mentioned, is always depicted
negatively.
india, by far more iniquitous empire that china and with a horrendous structure of
society and governance, is never criticized.

i do not know of a more iniquitous empire or more perilous to world than that of
india.
of course, i do not underestimate the perils of having nukes by other evil empires.

US may use nukes, but i think u.s. wld just bomb a region or city; possibly first of all against
pashtuns.
And nobody wld, i expect, be worked up about these ‘aliens’ tnx

What? No meeting with Arundhati Roy or Vandana Shiva?

Oh, right, an elitist, corporate sock puppet wouldn’t consider for a nanosecond the views of anyone who would make him look, by comparison, anything like the pimp he is.

The paranoia of the Pentagon and major U.S. business interests which rule us lies in how and to what extent they detect in the Chinese and the Indians and others… a reflection of our own rapaciousness and unfettered greed and will.

To the extent these interests are right and other nations may be like us.. that fear is justified.

Adios!