With the NATO air strikes over Yugoslavia we witness the possible beginning of World War III.

     If we look at just the places where cruise missiles have been used in the past few months, we see that the military engagements--by the U.S. against mostly defenseless adversaries--is truly world wide:  Afghanistan, the Sudan, Iraq, and now Yugoslavia.

     The around-the-world aspect of the military domination by the U.S. can be seen in one sortie last month:  Two B-2 "Stealth" bombers took off from Missouri, flew non-stop to Yugoslavia (refueling mid-flight), dropped 64,000 pounds of high explosives, turned around, and returned to Missouri.

     The Russian prime minister was quoted as saying that they will not stand idly by while their ally is attacked; and all measures--including military ones--would be brought to the fore.

     Let's get ready to rumble!

     The excuse that the U.S. is using to test its new weapon systems is that 2,000 or so Albanians have been murdered in Serbian efforts to accomplish an "ethnic cleansing" in the Southern province of Kosovo.

     But where was the U.S. during the genocidal wars in Rwanda, in 1994, that claimed nearly one million lives?  Can it be that  African lives, even 800,000 of them, are meaningless to the White male leaders of the U.S. military/industrial complex?

     In this story we see that the only thing that has changed in the last 350 years is the technology of war.  The motive, to dominate the world political economy, is unchanged.  The White-might makes right attitude of the Western powers is well supported by stealth technology and the cowardly design of missiles that strike from hundreds of miles away.

     Our role?  To advance an agenda that illuminates the human spirit in a way that enables us to successfully denounce state terrorism.  Let us practice war no more.