Though we cannot make this world better if we spend too much time inwardly focused or if we're too focused on extra-terrestrial phenomena--there are many who believe the government has been lying to us about UFOs and aliens. I created this document on my computer that you might find interesting: Videos and Articles about UFOs. I studied the subject intently for about a month.
To maximize democracy in the United States, we could equally empower 7 of the largest national political parties from this list of 9 parties: 1) Republicans 2) Democrats 3) Libertarians 4) Green Party of the United States 5) The Constitution Party of the United States 6) Democratic Socialists of America 7) Party for Socialism and Liberation 8) Socialist Alternative Party and 9) the Communist Party USA. Let us expand the spectrum of political viewpoints by going from a 2-party system to a 7-party system.
Here are some notes I took from this 9-minute video entitled Get Out of the Materialism Trap NOW: "We in first world countries are worshipping things that look nice; that are beautiful. We are window shopping while the whole world falls apart around us. It causes us to be entangled in the world of consumerism. Are we living for things, or are we living for the people and animals and the future generations that we are sharing this planet with? People want the latest, coolest gadget even though everyday there is an animal or person dying that could have been saved by this privileged society of window shoppers. Even with our spiritual leaders--look at some of their homes. What are we doing with our lives? We can choose to change."
If it would require 4 Earths for everyone in the world to have the lifestyle of the average American, we must examine the way we live and see the immorality of not being bothered by the huge gap between the rich and the poor throughout the world. What are we doing to heal this world and this land? Are we only concerned about ourselves and not the condition of the world?
Many people are now making more money in their stock market investments under Trump, but are they being morally responsible if they invest in corporations that are not socially responsible? They're getting a short-term gain, but it will be a long-term loss for their grandchildren. Robert Reich recently wrote this: Donald Trump lies like most people breathe.
If you really want to learn all the details about U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II, read William Blum whose books have been praised by Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Helen Caldicott, Michael Parenti, Cynthia McKinney, and David Swanson. Also read this article published on July 4 entitled Celebrate 243 Years of "Profitable Genocide."
It is interesting, however, that Noam Chomsky does not seem to have a problem with the Federal Reserve and its system of central banks, and he is not concerned about further investigating 9/11 according to James Corbett of the Corbett Report.com. Chomsky's stance on these issues and the JFK assassination has led James Corbett to create a video (Episode 285) entitled Meet Noam Chomsky, Academic GateKeeper. Here is an article entitled "What Does Noam Chomsky Say About the JFK Assassination?"
Richard D. Wolff, an advocate of workplace democracy, has been named by the New York Times Magazine as "America's most prominent Marxist economist." In this 29-minute video entitled Abby Martin interviews Richard Wolf to discuss Socialism, there are brief references to the Soviet Union and China from a historical perspective. That video is followed by this one entitled Chris Hedges & Abby Martin: No Way Out Through Elections that was published November 27, 2019.
Though it will never be widely reported in the mainstream media, which is largely owned by 6 capitalist corporations, Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist. Here is one of my favorite quotes of Martin Luther King: "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of spiritual uplift is approaching spiritual doom." Albert Einstein also was an advocate of socialism.
There are growing numbers of people who believe that when veganism is adopted worldwide, the healing of the world and the earth will begin. Here are 3 ethical, ecological, and health reasons for being a vegan. Veganism is good for the world, the planet, and our souls.
Even if the Green New Deal could implement a global Marshall Plan that maintains current levels of production and consumption--that will not create a sustainable future for the world because the whole idea of unlimited economic growth fails to understand that what is needed is a drastic reduction in production and consumption. The ecological balance of the planet requires it whether we realize it or not.
What is needed is for the rich of the world to live simply, so others can simply live. The motto of the website Green Social Thought tells what we need to do: "Produce less, Distribute it fairly, and Create a greener world for all." Today some of the worst environmentally destructive corporations are falsely advertising about how they are finding ecologically-friendly solutions to today's problems. There is even evidence that the environmental group Extinction Rebellion is being controlled by the wealthiest one percent who are capitalists from behind the scenes. We cannot solve the environmental crisis if we ignore the problems created by capitalism. In an article written on Halloween, Marxist Professor Richard Wolff said, "Capitalism is all tricks and no treats."
The United States government (which really is an empire) and the lifestyles of the wealthy in the wealthiest countries of the world prevent world peace the most. During the Age of Imperialism, the wealthy Western nations were in a race to carve up the Americas, Africa, and Asia. They were far more industrialized and had more powerful weapons. In their thinking, they thought they were superior to other peoples of the world, whom they considered to be subhuman or barbarians. They essentially believed that "might makes right." Aristocratic elites exploited other nations as they exploited the workers in their own countries. This economic disparity between the ruling class and the working class has continued to the present day and will continue into the future until the working class can keep more of the surplus value they create.
If we go to churches, synagogues, and mosques, we may attain individual spiritual growth, but we don't learn about the extent of the world's suffering. When we watch TV or go to school, we don't learn about what is really going on in other parts of the world. We don't hear the stories of how other people are living right now! And we don't learn about what the rest of the world thinks about the United States because we are distracted by design. Many of us are just trying to survive, which doesn't give us much time to think about world problems. But we live in a country that strives for world dominance and it's not making the world better.
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