A Global Revolution

A Global Revolution

By Frank Scott
Media Monitors.net
November 20, 2011

What began in Tunisia and was dubbed an Arab Spring has spread to the rest of the world, seemingly for different reasons in different places but slowly becoming one vast movement toward democracy and the political economic transformation necessary for humanity’s survival.

But while this hopeful sign of people on the move increases, the threats to it become more numerous and deadly. As electronic communication tools help the tendency toward unity and democracy among the 99%, they also increase the destructive power of the 1%.

The imperial minority’s ability to kill more people, destroy more
governments, enslave more populations and increase damage to
the environmental basis of all life while rushing to further exploit
it in pursuit of profit has brought dangers of a newer and more
deadly kind.

The dawning consciousness among people across the globe needs
to overtake and end the destructive process of private profit
accumulation at the loss of all publics on the planet, wherever
they may reside and whatever belief system they practice or preach.

The American phase of this movement began with the Wall Street occupation in New York and has spread to many American cities since, with success in highlighting a radical democratic governance technique and message of unity that surpasses its flaws and overcomes attacks by agents of the 1%.

This is all happening at a time when American belief in supposedly democratic government has sunk to deservedly new lows.

Established power is at an extremely bipolar phase in response as
it simultaneously attempts to crush, subvert or incorporate the
growing demands of a public frustrated into becoming what minority
power fears most: a majority democratic movement for substantial
and not merely cosmetic change in the system.

Minority dominators practice obsessive concern for their economic
private parts and this masturbatory focus brings the system closer
to moral and financial bankruptcy.

As the perverse lust for private profit reduces well paid employment
in the center by increasing low paid labor in peripheral parts of the
shrinking empire, it attacks meager social safety nets in that center
which were created to save capitalism during its last global crisis in
the 1930s.

Public sector work forces are savagely slashed and pensions are
cut as less and less people are employed in a political economy
that has further reduced humanity from commodities in a market
to electronic symbols on a computer screen.

Positive changes in communications offer an opportunity for a massive democratic leap forward but private profiteers still control staggering wealth and their blind lust to amass even more billions has eclipsed – until now – the need to trans-form and not simply re-form material reality.

The American movement has corporate media parroting the political line in the same bi-polar fashion that often lauds the democratic aspect of what’s going on while questioning its purpose.

Meanwhile, military slaughters continue unabated, sometimes with long distance murderers who kill innocents with electronic devises that enable them do their dirty work in rooms thousands of miles away from their victims with no more human contact than someone playing a video game while seated on a commode.

The isolated assassins are an ironic contrast in a world that sees millions in contact they have never before been able to achieve.

While some agents of the 1% operate in solitude totally removed
from the bloody murders they commit, Bradley Manning sits in
prison for acting on his conscience and informing his fellow
citizens of the crimes of modern warfare.

His action, representative of the high moral ground most people at least wish to occupy, contrasts with the murderous idiocy of what passes for “normal” material reality, and what the new global movement stands against.

Electronic media have finally become truly social but they are
not simply the domain of those organizing demonstrations
that represent the 99%.

Agents of the 1% operate networks of murder and spying that can’t succeed in the long term but add to producing confusion and more violence in the short term.

Attacks on the 99% in order to maintain criminal profit margins for the 1% and their agents are taking on increasingly insane character, with even some ruling class members worrying that this could destroy everything and not just their personal wealth.

As an example, continued and ever more feverish claims that Iran
is threatening to annihilate jews with nuclear weapons which do
not exist, while the hundreds of nuclear weapons which do exist in
Israel are unmentioned by the fanatics there and alleged American
government representatives who work for them here.

More deadly war is threatened, with death and destruction that
would make the present crisis even greater, and it is already
slipping beyond the control of the ruling 1% and its agents.

Truly, it has never been more essential that the great majority of
the 99% move towards the radical economic restructuring and totally
transformed political process that is the only thing that will save
humanity.

And political democracy means the end of private profit accumulation in control of the social and natural environment of planet earth, and the beginning of a system that acknowledges the rights of all people to share the benefits of their world.

We should thank the demonstrators in Tunisia, Egypt and of the Occupy Wall Street Movement for calling our attention to the fact that another world is not only possible but necessary.

And then we should join them in bringing it about. Quickly.

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