There are lots of reasons for optimism. [View All]

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Because we focus only on our own domestic situation, we lose track of the historical forces that are gathering to counter Bush and his Neocon Groupies' vision of America the striding colossus that walks the earth.Nothing that one sees in the world lends any support for that view.

Consider: In Latin America,a region that has been dominated by the U.S. for a long time, where rightwing dictators installed and maintained at the behest of one U.S. administration after another were the norm, we see genuinely democratic leaders like Chavez, Lula and others in the major Latin American countries gathering strength.Their true reforms have created hope for the majority of people in that vast continent who have been left without hope because of the corruption and profligacy of military and civilian dictators.

In Asia, the rise of China and India, the most populous nations on earth, offers for the first time rare opportunities for other Asian nations to grow outside the embrace of U.S. led corporate control of their economies.

Even in the Middle East, after the dust settles on the illegal wars Bush has engineered, the trend is away from the dictators and the monrchies installed for the benefit of U.S. oil conglomerates. Mubarak and the Saudi Royal Family are going to be history soon. Israel may also see the writing on the wall and join the Arab countries as a true partner in the Middle East and abandon its reliance on the U.S.

I really think people are on the march everywhere.There is no need to despair.