News Flash: There Are No Innocent Bystanders

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

March 27, 2014

“People from poorer places and poorer countries have to call upon their compassion not to be angry with ordinary people in America.”

- Arundhati Roy

The state of global affairs has long passed the proverbial tipping point yet most folks, it seems, have confused the occasional weekend parade, I mean protest, with a full-blown movement.

News Flash #1: Anti-Republican bumper stickers and a heartfelt commitment to recycled toilet paper don’t constitute a movement. Neither do candlelight vigils, petitions, voting drives, letters to Congress, monthly donations to Greenpeace, yellow ribbons, red ribbons, pink ribbons, or becoming the change you wish to see in the world. All you need is love? Yeah… that and a million dollars a minute (what the United States spends on war).

Americans wield more influence and power than any people on the planet, but while an obscene number of humans in this world live in abject poverty, we live our lives in such a manner as to threaten every living thing on Earth.

For example: A primary component in your beloved cell phone is “Coltan” (Columbite-tantalite), a metallic ore found mainly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mining and sale of Coltan is not only funding both sides of that nation’s brutal civil war, it has directly contributed to a 90 percent decline in the local Mountain Gorilla population. Translation: Every text is an act of violence.

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