Seymour Hersh told Jon Stewart that he sees his New Yorker articles as a kind of alterative history of today’s “history makings” of this administration. His first big splash/revelation was the MaiLai massacre. Howard Zinn wrote the voluminous A People’s History of the United States, and the companion Voices of A People’s History (the latter, obviously , he EDITED)

These two guys are like partners as I see it in the alternative voice that the Church should be embodying. Regardless of what one thinks about the underlying ethic which drives them to devote energies to such hsitories and revelations, the truth telling that I see there (and even also in Jon Stewart’s efforts to illuminate the absurdities of this administration, as well as the blatant lies) are seemingly cut from the same cloth of seeking after the truth of how people treat one another, and how they seek to “sell” that treatment; or “hide” that treatment when it is OBVIOUS that such treatment, if known, would be “unsellable”, and a basis for enough revolt to remove them from power by democratic means.

My dream for these next 4 years would be that things will be exposed, somehow, by someone, with some nasty details to reveal; something which lays so bare the evil of this administration in any one of several areas of governing. Before the election, I prayed for “a Woodward and Bernstein” to be raised up to blow the lid off of this criminal regime, a regime which has no God before it other than the false Gods of capitalism, propserity, greed, and use a disguised version of these draped in the flag and in many cases, the Bible. And I find that impossible to accept. The shriller the claims of the Religious Right become about Bush being “God’s man” for this time, the deeper becomes the darkness enveloping this nation which blindly follows, and all the more deeper the betrayal of Christ by those who attach this to their theo-political hopes. It is an idol that fits all the descriptions of the Beast in Revelation. I don’t believe , as many Christians do, in a SINGLE Anti-Christ, but that there are numerous incarnations of that figure throughoput history, This is the nature and intent, I believe, of all or most apocalyptic material in the Bible. It is ,and always has been, the end times. The battle between good and evil is constantly being played out. Sorry, Left Behind folks, but your Biblical hermeneutic on EndTimes is a bit warped. The battles of such cosmic significance are to be applied to the everyday in which we find ourselves living. Evil Empires continue to do their thing,. and to enlist the body of belivers in their causes, and the U.S. is no exception. A “People’s History” continues with “THIS People of the United States” ; THIS people in the Year 2005, in a post 11/2 world where the aims are domination over reconciliation; violent “nation-building” over internationl justice and collaboration, and paranoid warnings about seditious talk as if dissent from Government is dissent from God, and the idea that suggests that all one need do is to “speak of God” and God automatically blesses the ones who call upon that name.