UPDATE TO: 02/03/2011

Today while Super Bowl XLV is being watched by so many Americans, and American companies unveil their Super Bowl super-ads for the super-products they want to sell to the super-consumer, Egyptians continue to build their tent city in Tahrir Square in Cairo, amidst negotiations with the police state they wish to see end. Protests also continue in Alexandria and other cities around the country in an attempt to overthrow a quasi-puppet despot dictator, who is estimated to be worth up to $70 Billion (in no small part courtesy of the American Taxpayer), and likely only wants to stay in power as long as possible in order to increase his family's ill-gotten gains, and make sure the Orwellian government remains in power. Some of Mubarak's wealth translate into physical assets here in the USA, including homes and corporate investments.

And while he and his vile political cohorts continue to plot and scheme on how to defeat the siege that the brave people of Egypt are attempting to sustain in a now 14 day long demonstration for Democracy and freedom, our leaders here in America pretend to the public that their concern is for these goals of the oppressed citizens in Egypt and across the Arab world, North Africa and the Middle East. Including Tunisia, who many see as the catalyst for change in the region, but who has recently discovered that the evil they sought to expunge is more deeply rooted than previously thought.

But in truth, and by our scripted words of diplomacy, which seem to always contradict themselves from one speaker to another, the foreign policy of our nation is driven by a resource-hungry addiction to oil and empire. A paradox which has become the "chicken or the egg" of any serious academic discussion on the evolution or devolution of our once shining-light-to-the-world Democracy and sanctuary to the oppressed and exploited peoples of the world. Rather, now it is by our economic rules that those people become more deeply and hopelessly enslaved, so that we may continue to over-consume our share of the world's dwindling resources.

As I watch the struggles across the globe for Democracy, and freedom from the imperial grip of Western geo-political colonialism. And I look around my own country, in particular to the growing sense of unrelenting apathy and selfishness that is gripping too many Americans, as we have our own increasingly worse economic woes. Even while Wall Street, the banks and the super rich continue to increase their wealth at the expense of the rest of "us", I can't help but feel a little pessimistic.

I know that to feel this way is to surrender to exactly what "THEY" want from the masses of the "human herd". But the odds seem to be so stacked against our ever winning this fight, here in what is claimed to be the freest society in the history of Mankind. Yet here we are becoming a third world nation, with over 10% or more actual unemployment, and almost a third of Americans at or below the poverty line. Worrying about how they will feed their children, cloth them, keep them healthy and give them an education, and thus a chance for a better life. All this while the 1% at the top do not see us at all, and the top 25% of Americans believe that there is no real inequality in America. Only bad luck for some, and the rest lazy and opportunist welfare junkies. While a single energy company like Exxon might receive as much or more in taxpayer subsidies than the Food Stamp budget of the entire United States. The propaganda we so easily swallow whole leads "us" to get it wrong on who the real welfare recipients are. Because one of the best strategies a fascist power can use to keep a firm jack-boot on the neck of their citizens is to keep them divided in ideology, class and religion. If we are too busy hating each other, fighting each other, coveting each other, for things which we have little or no real control over, then we will not see or feel the tug of the puppet strings that do the actual manipulation that we misinterpret and foolishly act upon. And in the end contribute more to the public discourse that ultimately defeats "us", and leaves us feeling hopeless and impotent to effect the change we desire.

I pray the people of Egypt will see they must continue in their struggle. If they give up or capitulate before they win this fight, it will go badly for those who started the revolution, and will further encourage our own leaders that they can keep "us" blinded to the real threat that "they" are.

Solidarity and perseverance are the only solutions to throwing off this growing global elitist hegemony. Not the "New World Order" of the likes of George Bush Sr., and the Project for the New American Century that conspires for exactly what I am writing about as the problem, but a united people's world movement made up of collective societies, that work together to create universal human and civil laws that apply regardless of and in spite of whatever specific form of Democracy that each nation decides for itself. Not a United Nations that focuses not on the citizen's real needs, but rather on the leaders' geo-political ambitions. But a unity of common purpose. In recognition that we all live on the same planet, under the same sky, and must learn to share our combined resources for the collective benefit of all.

We will survive as a species no other way I fear. Or we will find ourselves caught up in a global genocide brought about by our ignorance at the hands of a finite number of the most selfish and cruel examples of a race of human beings that had such potential, but failed to follow through.

What optimism that remains for me is that I be proven wrong...