You're right on the money with your criticism, I agree, all are added. Thank you.
I don't have any problem with bitching and moaning...so long as you're bitchng and moaning about how long our own governments have supported these tyrants and murderers in order to keep We The People placated with cheap oil prices and transportation fuel. It sickens me, when I think of the billions of dollars my own government has given people like Mubarack and Ali and Saleh, in order to keep their fellow citizens under their iron fists.
I am forced to ask myself, who are the real tyrants, you know?
Glad that you enjoyed this,

You made me smile, my friend.
It is endlessly fascinating to me, that people like you and I, possessed of such opposing beliefs on so many societal, cultural and political issues, can agree on so many things.
And we so do agree, on the IMF.
As many bad things as you can say about the IMF, the reality is so much worse. If there is such a thing as Satan, the International Monetary Fund is his left hand, causing untold and systemic disruption, social upheaval, economic devastation and human suffering on a global scale. The IMF is the direct descendant of european colonialism, specifically designed to replace conquest and subsequent paternalistic national indenture with permanent impoverishment of everyday citizens and their so-called nations, in order to provide cheap raw materials, and an uneducated and therefore permanently hungry and cheap labor pool to feed the so-called "developed" nations' economies, while at the same time rewarding the autocrats and, yes, fascist leaders, with vast amounts of wealth at the expense of their own people.
And I'm a fucking anarcho-capitalist, a died-in-the-wool private ownership motherfucker, and I know this to be true.
There is not one single nation - not one - that has ever done "business" with the IMF - "business", what a fucking joke THAT is - and has not had serious social unrest, huge economic problems, and large increases in poverty, as a result. I challenge anyone to name one country that has not.
The revolution and uprising we are seeing in the Middle East is the direct result of we in the west supporting murderers, thieves and cultural rapists as national leaders and heads of state, and I for one am overjoyed that these good folks are at last rising up to claim the rights that we enjoy and take for granted. It will mean huge changes for us, and permanent ones, but who cares - freedom is breaking out: as an anarchist, I find this a thing of real beauty.

As for the "jewish conspiracy", lmao, what a fucking joke that is. The very idea that 13 million people control the destinies and lives of 7 billion others is just...laughable.

LOL sorry about the rant, but I can't help it, the IMF is truely evil.

A final thought:
In the midst of their struggle, some of the muslim people of Egypt, faced with thugs and guns and injury and death, paused for Friday prayers.
Their christian brothers and sisters saw this, and formed a wall of living flesh and bone, to protect their fellow citizens as they knelt before God.
I mean, shit, they stopped fighting to PRAY, and others protected their right to do so.
Now THAT'S what I fucking call civilization, right there, heehee. There's hope for us yet, my friend.

Glad you enjoyed my write, Jess.

I think that in the end, our civilization will be measured, in part, by the freedom each person has to choose what to believe. Given that choice, most choose spirituality. Our own nation shows this, I think.

And they choose freedom, as recent events clearly show.

My life was the opposite: my earliest memories are of the pain a supposed loved one can inflict upon a child, mentally and physically. Years later I discovered that although the world was still largely comprised of evil shit, there were people in it who gave a rat's ass about me.
I ended up marrying one of them, and was transformed, heehee.
High school for me: being locked up for six years...for being a child.
When I went to my first meeting with my eldest son's primary teacher, it was the first time I had been inside a school in over 20 years...and I had a visceral reaction, shaking, nauseated, and so angry I had to leave, lol. Then I had to go back, and apologize to the poor woman.

The USA is changing too, and not for the better, at least, not yet. Take a look at how the state of Arizona tried to, and is still trying to, gut our constitution.
But I think positive change is inevitable, as decent people realize what is going on. I just hope we can make this change without too much bloodshed: I'm too old to be anything but cannon fodder, but I have young sons, and a daughter, and I would rather they not have to fight.
LOL provoking is what poet's do, when needed!
Glad you enjoyed my write, Oz Lady.

Yes, for far too long we in the west have seen our freedom and democracy as being dependant on denying it to millions of others for the sake of "security".
That I will live to see the day when millions of newly free people line up at polling places to elect representatives from every walk of life delights me, and makes me proud of my fellow human beings. And such people as these who now struggle never take their hard-won freedoms for granted. I know and respect some of those who have become citizens of the USA, and they are fierce in their defense of our rights and freedoms, here in the States. They are part of the great strength of my country.
Now we will see that strength spread to a wider population.
Glad you enjoyed my write, Raj, Thank you.

I don't get my news from TV now at all, either, as I believe that all of it is hideously biased. I need at least three different sources from around the world that tell me the same thing about a certain subject before I'll believe any of it, and I'm not talking msnbc, cnn, or fox either, all of which I wouldn't give you a rat's ass for. Usually I get my news from AP, or Reuters, the BBC, CBC, Al Jazeera, AllAfrica.com and others, these days!
Glad you liked this one so much.

Yes, this is in part about Libya, the struggles in the Middle East more in general.
I seldom write overtly political poetry, as I think most politics is just complete garbage, heehee. But the folks in the Middle East have impressed me mightily, for the most part forcing change relatively peacefully, and with a minimum of bloodshed, even in the face of dictatorial governmental threat and violence.
Libya...well the situation apalls me, and this is for those people too.
What really disgusts me, is our western reaction to what's happening in that part of the world, which most of my fellow citizens could not even point out on a map, let alone tell you who was doing what and how.
Glad you enjoyed this one, John.

As an anarchist, I absolutely love what the Libyan people are doing, freeing themselves from a dictatorial, murderous clan of filthy thugs.
As a humanist, it sickens me, that anyone has to die while doing it.
But as a realist, I know most human beings aren't capable of existing peaceably with each other without Law, so I hope and pray that folks in Libya can find such Law, and still retain the freedom they deserve.
Thanks for you kind words about my poem, Warrior Princess.