We live in a confused world, and this world is getting more confused as the gospel of the Free Market subdues our freedom of expression and our own way of thinking.

People could say why I am obsessed with the Free Market, and I am responding that this Free Market marketed by our big corporations and their appointed governments is at the core of our problems. We have just found out that in a span of six weeks the Enron corporation lost some 95 percent of its stock market value, and we are finding out that more mergers are occurring between big corporations so that they can cut their cost by firing people.

One discovery today is that both the stock market manipulators and the firing of employees are becoming the mediums by which our Free Market is becoming more and more the 'property' of fewer and fewer big multinational corporations. Our media itself has been taken over by the few bigger corporations and therefore we are continuously being brainwashed by our 'Talking Heads.'

It is time to wake up and think for ourselves, and as we have been explaining for sometime we find our truths reflecting on our experiences, making patterns out of events, and using metaphors for explanations. More Palestine suicide bombers are killing themselves along with civilians in the Middle East, and more 'retaliatory' assassinations are perpetrated by the Israelis. Who is right and who is wrong? The Palestinians are right? The Israelis are right? Our North American media supports the Israelis and they equate the suicide bombers to terrorists. On the other hand, the suicide bombers are perceived as martyrs by most of the impoverished Palestinian population.

President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are demanding Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to immediately control the violence and arrest 36 Hamas militant leaders otherwise he himself will pay the consequences. At the same time, Yasser Arafat cannot immediately comply with such demand as a put down of the Hamas organization would cause a civil war among the Palestinians, and this would be an excuse for the Israeli tanks to move into Palestinian territories one more time.

Are Bush and Sharon looking for other wars against terrorism in the Middle East?

Some references

Did you know? Background on Archibald MacLeish http://www.rothpoem.com/duk_am.html

How Tinseltown sold out to George Bush, Inc., by David Blomstrom, The Invisible Republic November 24, 2001 http://www.geobop.com/Education/911/hollywood/index.htm

Hamas stands its ground, BBC News, December 6, 2001 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1694000/1694163.stm

Israel's True Intentions in Removing Arafat, by R.S. Zaharna, December 4, 2001 http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0112arafat.html