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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (161442)	5/5/2005 3:00:33 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Moving Out of the Superpower Orbit truthout.org <<... "People power's a fine thing for shaking up Eastern Europe and the Middle East, but as it spreads to the Americas, it could be coming uncomfortably close to home. What if people power caught on in the United States? What if accountability was being demanded not just from governments in Kiev and Beirut but also those in London and Washington? The bread and circuses approach to democracy has so far been an effective guarantor of political apathy across America, but what if Americans in large numbers were to one day wake up from their political slumber and demand that they too deserve a truly representative government?" What if, indeed. What if we all began slipping out of the imperial orbit?...>>