Let This World Awaken
Dear Reader, When we look at what is happening around us in the world, it would be easy to feel negativity in response to what we see. Afghanistan is one place that causes me to feel utter sorrow at what has been perpetrated there. Much has been wrong in that country for decades - before Western intervention - but now that 'we' have pulled out, the situation has just got immeasurably worse. But it's not just there. There have been several Middle Eastern countries where people have been reduced to desperate measures just to survive. And the effect of Climate Change in many countries, such as (but not only) Madagascar. South America is another region where much desperation exists. But there are rays of hope. In Peru a simple country woman named Maxima fought largely American-owned gold mining giants who had perpetrated the deaths of local people as a result of poisoning their water supplies, and in general behaving like bullies towards Maxima and others. They tried to usurp