of folks around the world who feel as we do.

All those glorious uprisings around the world in the past 7 years: from the Spanish Indignados to the Arab Spring to the Wisconsin Uprising to Occupy Wall St to the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong to the Gezi Park Uprising in Turkey to the Ferguson and Baltimore BlackLivesMatter uprisings to the massive demonstrations all over South America. Each and every one of those movements touched many people around the globe. They're We're out there.

Given that the Economic Terrorists of Wall St can be linked to almost all of it, i.e. predatory practices on municipal and national treasuries resulting in supra-punitive legislative measures, debt slavery and forced austerity, we have to look to one another, around the world, at a unifying, borderless global movement. Nationalism is the enemy, just as much as capitalism.

The Socialists of a hundred years ago understood all this, and it's just as apropos today.

Jack London, "Revolution":

They call themselves "comrades," these men, comrades in the socialist revolution. Nor is the word empty and meaningless, coined of mere lip service. It knits men together as brothers, as men should be knit together who stand shoulder to shoulder under the red banner of revolt. This red banner, by the way, symbolizes the brotherhood of man, and does not symbolize the incendiarism that instantly connects itself with the red banner in the affrighted bourgeois mind. The comradeship of the revolutionists is alive and warm. It passes over geographical lines, transcends race prejudice, and has even proved itself mightier than the Fourth of July, spread-eagle Americanism of our forefathers. The French socialist workingmen and the German socialist workingmen forget Alsace and Lorraine, and, when war threatens, pass resolutions declaring that as workingmen and comrades they have no quarrel with each other. Only the other day, when Japan and Russia sprang at each other's throats, the revolutionists of Japan addressed the following message to the revolutionists of Russia: "Dear Comrades -- Your government and ours have recently plunged into war to carry out their imperialistic tendencies, but for us socialists there are no boundaries, race, country, or nationality. We are comrades, brothers and sisters, and have no reason to fight. Your enemies are not the Japanese people, but our militarism and so-called patriotism. Patriotism and militarism are our mutual enemies."

In January, 1905, throughout the United States the socialists held mass-meetings to express their sympathy for their struggling comrades, the revolutionists of Russia, and, more to the point, to furnish the sinews of war by collecting money and cabling it to the Russian leaders.

The fact of this call for money, and the ready response, and the very wording of the call, make a striking and practical demonstration of the international solidarity of this world revolution: "Whatever may be the immediate results of the present revolt in Russia, the socialist propaganda in that country has received from it an impetus unparalleled in the history of modern class wars. The heroic battle for freedom is being fought almost exclusively by the Russian working-class under the intellectual leadership of Russian socialists, thus once more demonstrating the fact that the class-conscious workingmen have become the vanguard of all liberating movements of modern times."

Here are 7,000,000 comrades in an organized, international, world-wide, revolutionary movement. Here is a tremendous human force. It must be reckoned with. Here is power. And here is romance -- romance so colossal that it seems to be beyond the ken of ordinary mortals. These revolutionists are swayed by great passion. They have a keen sense of personal right, much of reverence for humanity, but little reverence, if any at all, for the rule of the dead. They refuse to be ruled by the dead. To the bourgeois mind their unbelief in the dominant conventions of the established order is startling. They laugh to scorn the sweet ideals and dear moralities of bourgeois society. They intend to destroy bourgeois society with most of its sweet ideals and dear moralities, and chiefest among these are those that group themselves under such heads as private ownership of capital, survival of the fittest, and patriotism -- even patriotism.

It really is sickening the extent to which we speak about war here in the United States of Amnesia (thanks G. Vidal), as if it's a Hollywood movie or a backyard game for children after school to indulge before their cookies and milk.

The propaganda of American Exceptionalism, and the way we "teach" history here, lays the foundation for the lemmings to be programmed to get highly agitated if they're told someone else is cutting in our profits or standing as Victors of the World.

Corporate profits for the Mainstream Media seal the whole deal. Otherwise in a functioning democracy, the media would function as a checks and balance on power. It's a multifaceted, well-lubricated propaganda machine that continues to dupe the masses.

The "invisible people" line is frighteningly on point in the American discourse and perspective.

Americans view the world through a keyhole, in it exists:
China
Russia
Iran
North Korea
Flavor-of-the-month Middle East country

Other countries don't exist. Sure they exist on a map but they don't...exist. The people, the language, the culture, the actual blood and network of a nation are invisible.

I mean these are people. Human beings. They wake up, do mundane morning rituals, go to their jobs, and live their lives. They have dreams, values, hopes, love, connection.

But we just want to nuke them because that is what the TV told me to accept and/or my government.

on terms for their own reunification. Korea has been a victim of, first Japanese imperialism in the early 1900s and then enforced partition by the US and USSR at the end of WWII. I guess the problem has been letting everybody in Korea decide what kind of government they want. Stalin didn't want that to happen.

How comic Lewis Black determined that North Koreans were evil?

He reminded us that the film footage of their political parades showed a world of only black and white and sepia tones.

I mean, this nation has its problems, be we do have color, right?