Nobody can assure us that in its agony, the empire wont be dragging human beings down to catastrophe. As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldnt be admissible. I remember well that one day, almost 20 years ago, I said that there was an endangered species: Man. In front of a select group of bourgeois government leaders, flatterers of the empire, among them being the immense well-fed bulk of the German Helmut Kohl, and others like those forming the chorus of Bush Sr., less dismal and alienated than his own son, W. Bush, I couldnt help but express that truth which I was seeing as being very real, even though it was more distant than it is today, with the greatest sincerity possible. Turning on the television at about 12:15 at midday, because someone told me that Barack Obama was giving his announced speech on foreign policy, I paid attention to his words. I dont know why, despite the piles of dispatches and news I listen to on a daily basis, not one of them mentioned that the guy would be speaking at that time. I can assure the readers that there are not a few stupidities and lies that, among the dramatic truths and facts of all kinds, I read, I hear or see in pictures every day. But this case was something special. What was the guy going to say at that time in this world overwhelmed with imperial crimes, massacres or unmanned planes dropping deadly bombs, that not even Obama, now master of some life and death decisions, was imagining when he was a student at Harvard just a few decades ago? Of course nobody should suppose that Obama is master of the situation; he merely handles some important words that the old system in its origin granted the Constitutional President of the United States. At this point, 234 years after the Declaration of Independence, the Pentagon and the CIA still have the basic instruments of the imperial power created: technology capable of destroying the human race in a matter of minutes, and the means to penetrate those societies, dupe them and manipulate them shamelessly for as long as they need to do so, thinking that the power of the empire is boundless. It is absurd that they base tomorrows world, under the kingdom of liberty, justice, equal opportunities and human rights, incapable of seeing what is really happening with poverty, the lack of the basic services of education, health, jobs and something worse: meeting lifes needs such as food, drinking water, house and many others. Strangely enough, can anyone wonder for example what would happen with the 10,000 dead per year as a result of drug-related violence, basically in Mexico? I harbour absolutely no intention of offending those peoples; my purpose is just to point out what is happening to others almost on a daily basis. There is one question that has to be asked almost immediately: what is going to happen in Spain where crowds are protesting in the countrys main cities against the unemployment of 40% of the young people, just to quote one of the causes of the demonstrations of that fighting people? Could it be perhaps that they are going to start bombing that NATO country? CounterPunch