Jim Kirwan: Orgies Of Empire!

Empires have been with the human race almost from the beginning of time, or at least since we began to keep track of ourselves through what we call "history". There is a single common denominator, aside from all the others: Every one of these takeovers has been "financed" by others, to increase the power which the financiers seek. This has been true of every faction that ever sought to influence others and includes all political parties, both established and virtually unrecognized, and yet we fail to look at the political parties that we have grown up with as having anything to do with these revolutionary forces. That has probably been one of our greatest mistakes. We must come to understand that no party, no faction, no movement is capable of sustained efforts without political and monetary backing. Having said that, we need to look more closely at the main components of the confrontations taking place around the world in opposition to the "Austerity-measures" which are nothing but formal terms for the 'governmental-contracts' that will, if implemented, enslave us all. In the US the demonstrations have been proud to remain non-violent, as if this somehow justifies the validity of their claims against the private-corporate-governmental-forces.