12/21/2002 09:40:00 PM

US blocks cheap drugs agreement...
special interest money trumps international consensus

here is one utopian idea: we pass some legislation that says that for every dollar in US taxpayer money spent on F-16's for Israel, spare parts for Turkey or stinger missiles for whatever breakout faction the CIA decides to support this week the US Government is required to spend $2 on cheap drug subsidies, de-mining and ecological renewal.

i know, i know, this is not even on the radar in our present political milieu.

the world system works these things out. the natural alternative to posturing ourselves with interdependence in global decision making and with benevolence amidst our wealth is for the world, out of the vacuum of our dereliction, to posture itself in what we call piracy and terror.

we bring it upon ourselves, friends. it is time for we the people to stop supporting a way of governance that privileges greed and death.