our necessity

I don't have a formal set of thoughts on the subject because my father (with whom I barely speak, but we've at least got to the point that we can inhabit the relatively same space) lost his own father last night, and we're getting ready to see off the body of man who believed no god, wanted no funeral, and, if he's a ghost, is really pissed right now that anyone gives a shit about his carcass:

If we - and by we, I mean average residents of the countries which benefit from corporate imperialism and the American/NATO/UN war powers regime - don't topple or at least hamper and weaken our own corporate states; if we don't begin to take real stock of the myriad social and economic benefits we derive from our relatively high position on the economic food chain; if we don't start to put our bodies and meager fortunes at risk; in short, if we do not rebel and therefore force our own governments to spend as much loot as we can make them waste on putting us down, we are complicit in the coming co-option, betrayal and counter-revolutionary destruction of the popular uprisings which have spread from Tunisia to Egypt, which threaten the Yemeni and Jordanian puppet states, which simmer on the edge of open insurrection in Albania, which give renewed hope and cause to the captive people of Palestine, and which can and may very well will re-ignite in Greece, Lebanon and Italy.

If the American, British, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Dutch, Australian and Scandinavian people do not put their own bodies in the path of the machinery of Empire, it will continue to roll. And it will eventually buy itself enough time to not only betray the incredible courage and aspiration of the Arab rebels, but to get around to putting the Venezuelan, Cuban and Peruvian upstarts down for good.