"I hope...I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness."
-Napoleon Bonaparte in a letter in Egypt in August 1798

Bonaparte's letter was a historic failure to address the people of Egypt, trying to convince them of his good intentions. His own warships spoke louder than his soft words and challenged his credibility before people did.

Obama's speech does not lend him a prettier face, though it is the least Muslims expect from him. With an army in Afghanistan, another in Iraq, and a funded arsenal in Israel, the US has a lot to say and to do to gain Muslims respect. Sheikh Obama needs to walk the walk, and I'm pretty sure that there are many more people in the Muslim world that want to give him a chance than in his own country.

What did you think about the speech? What do you think were the positive and negative points it tackled?

In 1929, days after the stock market crash, the Harvard Economic Society assured its subscribers: "A sever depression is outside the probability". In a survey in March 2001, 95% of American economists said there would not be a recession, though one had already started. Today, most of economists do not forecast a recession in America, but the profession's pitiful forecasting record offers little comfort.
- Economist Magazine

The American economy is going for a free fall; vote for Hillary Clinton to save it. That's the ad. that was playing to call people to vote for Hilary Clinton in the Potomac Area. Americans are so naive that a shallow message like that will attract their attention and they would land their fears on the hope it suggests. Many people don't understand that tinkering with the system is just a delay of a certain collapse; it is like taking a pain killer where you grow more and more dependent on it, but it definitely doesn't solve the problem or cure your disease.
The current economic system in play in US is even worse than communism. Communism's hardcore structure and hierarchy and prevention of ownership created an outrageous sense of marginalizing within people, and way to the end of it till people figured out its drawbacks - though some did at the beginning. Capitalism offers the market solution that is ideal when the access to markets and information is equally granted, but who thinks this is the case today ? nobody.

Marketing the ideas of capitalism was a school of thought that was never as strong or ideal as the communism one. The prophets of capitalism - Ronald Regan and Margret Thatcher - had no further vision than getting and spending. With the underlying system of fractional reserve and interest, the down dip was essential. Markets became less and less accessible to normal Americans and more accessible to bigger corporates; and access to monetary power was granted to banks with the power of creating money of literal thin air. The rest of people were doomed to default and slip to the new style of slavery - debt slavery.

I really want you to view this eye-opening video that will give you a clearer view of the current monetary system. More people should be aware of how this functions so they can resist its givens.

I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow, as most of you are and obliged to go thro' good report and evil report, for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor...
- Otis, 1762, speaking against the conservative rulers of the Massachusetts colony

Since I stepped on the American soil, I have noticed the American talent of calling everything you might - or might not - accept a friendly name to make it more presentable. Many things one can happily accept with a smile are undercover flashbacks to the very same past phenomenons that carried different names and was fought against by societies over and over. I felt like it was all a game of PR - Public Relations - that the present faces mastered and the past ones failed at. Everything was simply made fine .. Usury became interest, bribery became lobbying, deceiving and lying became advertising, greed became capitalism, lords and peasants government and people, material slavery became consumerism, adultery became sexual freedom, imperialism became freedom, upper class control became democracy, and pregnant ladies could hide bombs .. not very funny, right ?

The consciousness game that is played against people to enable or disable them according to their access of reality is a long played game of people of power. People here - in God they Trust - have control over everything but the things that change their status quo. The trinity of power complex: Politics, Money, Media is not controlled by the little, yes little, American - thanks to the puppet masters. This will be clearer in my next series of articles highlighting the misery and grief this system gives to Americans and the world.

Given my origins, it's a real controversy to feel sympathy to whom tax dollars fund their troops. But - being a common sense advocate - it didn't take me long to realize something - hopefully not everything - is wrong. When I took a peak into normal people lives here, I realized that oppression is not my local concept as much as it is a universal one, but it can take a very creative form of it to enslave and oppress the people who claim knowledge and advancement. The problem has been growing bigger and bigger to include governments, monetary systems, corporates, paid scholars under its extending wings. It's quite clear and simple, but we are quite naive to see it too.

Since I started reading "A People's History of the United States" by a great historian - Howard Zinn - given to me by a great friend of mine that refuses a static state of mind - I became to feel the dilemma the people here suffer. It all started this way:

Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from favorites of the British Empire. In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership.
- Howard Zinn in "A people History of the United States"

The fascination is greater when you see the survival of this exploit living till today, in a world that carries the freedom motto, where the deception game grows bigger and bigger. The dangers of this system are growing with the growth of the United States; the immorality of power can prove very destructive and destabilizing on a global wide system. Yet, it is never late to address imbalances and injustice in whatever form or shape it takes.

To Be Continued ..