Gold and Black Gold -- Parallels for Native Americans and Arabs

[Octafish]

The Grand Arab (He Only Has Sand),
by Jean Dubuffet, 1947, Art Institute of Chicago

"Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it.
It would sooner run away than say its own name:
what it likes is to be incognito.
Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is."

-- Jean Dubuffet


What Corporate McPravda wants to prevent you from seeing:
The BFEE has done to the Arab peoples through war and economic chicanery,
the same thing their economic and familial ancestors did to the Native Americans.
They stole the wealth of nations on behalf of a few "aristocrats" sitting atop the heap.

Wars for oil and empire are more than sick. They are evil. They also are most un-democratic.

[Mojeoux]

1. You said it It is evil.

It's class war fare, yes!!! When did the rich even declare a truce, a "detant" a workable solution? Never! It's just their way or the highway.

[Octafish]

2. Most of the wealth in history has been created in the past 30 years. Guess who it went to?

The few hundred families and individuals atop the nation's economic pyramid. That's why the Kochs and Richard Mellon Scaife fund ALEC and Karl Rove and all the rest of their sweaty toadies.

Government used to be the one force that leveled the playing field, making the corporations and their owners re-invest in the nation through taxes. That proved too troublesome, though. So, they purchased the government -- or at least enough of it to get their way through tax policy, economic policy, fiscal policy, domestic policy, foreign policy, legislation, and de-regulation. They also bought as many politicians who helped burden us with the most ultra-conservative, pro-property court system money can buy.

[Mojeoux]

5. It's mostly for my children that I am emotionally bitch-slapped by the ineqity.

My babies are JUST AS GOOD as theirs!! Just as smart, fun, just as beautiful, just as deserving of the American Dream.

[JCMach1]

3. Not quite an equal analogy, much of the destruction of Arab Culture

has happened at their own hands.

You simply can't compare that to the genocide of Native Americans.

What's worse, poor family planning will leave (the mostly Arab) residents of the MENA region as the first part of the world to hit the resource wall. The future for countries like Yemen is bleak indeed.

[Octafish]

4. Excellent observation.

Arab friends explained to me long ago how the wealthy few royals, sheikhs, emirs, etc. are hated by their own people. They see how most of the petrodollars ended up in Swiss banks and with western arms manufacturers.

Since FDR, the petro elite have enjoyed special relationships with Uncle Sam and world finance at the expense of their own people. The Native American leadership was betrayed along with their peoples.

I wanted to draw a line between a certain class of people through time. Today these very rich and powerful people own and operate the military-industrial complex, to the detriment of the United States and humanity.

[Tashca]

6. I understand what you are trying to say

I read a story recently on Crazy Horse.
We made another treaty with the Lakota Sioux. In the agreement was to be The Sioux's control of their sacred lands of the Black Hills. Shortly after that an illegal incursion was made into the Black Hills by the U.S. military with a small band led by General Custer. Their was a rumor of gold in those hills. Custer found the Gold.......and the rest is history. Needless to say the treaty was broken at some not to distant point.

I am guessing that some wealthy people decided that the Gold should be theirs. How inconvienent that the Native American happened to be living there. I do not know that for sure....but I think it would be a safe guess.