NP? re Twilight America : "Axis Of Evil--in Washington, D.C."

[Doug Millison]

"There IS a political axis of evil running strong in the United States that
underpins the Bush regime, which includes the oil industry,
military-industrial complex (MIC), other transnationals, and the Christian
Right, all important contributors to the Bush electoral triumph, and each
of which has high level representation in the administration including,
besides Bush himself, Cheney, Rumsfeld, O'Neill and Ashcroft.

This REAL axis of evil is using 9/11 and the "war on terrorism" to carry
out its foreign and domestic agenda on a truly impressive scale, and so far
without much impediment at home or abroad.

What is notable about their agenda is that it flies in the face of all of
the requirements for peace, global democracy, economic equity and justice,
ecological and environmental protection, and global stability. It
represents the choice of an overpowerful country's elite, determined to
consolidate their economic and political advantage in the short run, at
whatever cost to global society.

They are accelerating all the ugly trends of militarization and
globalization that have led to increasing violence, income polarization,
and the vigorous protests against the World Trade Organization, IMF and
World Bank. [...] "

continues at

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-03/15herman.cfm