The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) proposes a hemisphere wide commercial trade zone in which domestic policies are legally unable to impede the profit potential of foreign corporations. One of its central components is a provision called "Investor Rights", which legally assigns more rights to foreign corporations than to private
citizens and domestic governments.

Terrorism, like global free trade, heeds no borders, can smash communities anywhere, can legally strike, dismay, derange, dismantle, destroy a targeted town or region and slither away unpunished, leaving smoking ruin and human anguish behind. It's the same thing global trade does, wherever it can.

The new world economic order functions like a mechanism that spins by it's own inertia for its own interests. Productive humans activities are measured according to their highest yield and profit. Human labor is casually traded as a commodity, divorced from human life.

There's a three-stage motivation that can be seen with US meddling abroad and the US influenced coups. The first thing that happens is that an American or a foreign corporation is active in another country, and the government of that country starts to restrict it in someway or give it some trouble, restricting it's ability to operate freely. Then the leaders of that company come to the political leadership of the United States to complain about the regime in that country. In the political process, in the White House, the motivation morphs a little bit; the US government does not intervene directly to defend the rights of the company, but they transform the motivation from an economic one into a political or geo-strategic one. They make the assumption that any regime that would bother or harass an American company must be anti-American, repressive, dictatorial, and probably the tool of some foreign power or interest that wants to undermine the United States. So the motivation transforms from an economic to a political one, although the actual basis for it never changes. Then it morphs one more time when the US leaders have to explain the motivation behind its operations to the American people. Then they do not use either the economic or the political motivation usually, but they portray these interventions as liberation operations, just a chance to free a poor oppressed nation.

The fact that a number of other governments around the world meddle in the affairs of other countries for their financial interests does not make it less wrong for our government to be doing so, especially given the fact that the US has the most potent military on the planet.

Who decides who gets to be labeled a terrorist? One person’s terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. Maybe possessing your own state is key to controlling the way the word terrorist is used. Terrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich. The US media has yet to come up with an intimate portrait of an insurgent. We don't know
who the people are, what motivates them, and why they continue to fight with such veracity. We are instead presented with nameless, faceless evildoers who kidnap people and cut their heads off. That's it!

Israel is a nation that has consistently refused to sign on to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which would subject the country to inspections by the International Atomic Energy agency. Changing times and circumstances indicate that friends can quickly turn into enemies and enemies back into friends. The best way to deal with such eventualities, when it comes to issues as fundamental to human survival as nuclear weaponry, is to ensure that everybody plays by the same rule book. What is good for Iran is good for Israel and the US and every other aspiring member of the nuclear club.

Israel serves as a major arms subcontractor for American arms. It recently signed two agreement, worth $ 1.5 billion each, to train and equip both the Chinese and Indian armies with Israeli-tinkered US weaponry. The US uses Israel as a conduit when it wishes to avoid Congressional bans, embodied in the Arms Export Control Acts, on selling arms to countries with serious human rights violations or, as in the case of India and Pakistan, when it wishes to avoid taking sides. Israel produces 12 percent of the world's arms.

There is a special place in hell reserved for those who refuse to give up the self-centered indifference that allows them to rest indefinitely on their cushions while the rest of the world goes to hell. Finding ways to confront institutionalized greed (our present economic system), institutionalized ill will (our materialism and punitive justice systems) and institutionalized delusion (the propaganda and advertising systems maintained by the media) will not be easy.