Living so deep within the imperial web, behind so many layers of propaganda and paranoia, it is difficult to comprehend that there is somewhere still opposition to the power structure. The tendency on the left is, in dismissing the War on Terror, to minimize the targets of the ongoing Western military operations. The causes and cures of the conflict, in traditionally British/American shopkeeper fashion is to reduce the conflict to a bread riot, to be obviated by a distribution of third rate flour into the emaciated hands of the teeming colonials. On the right meanwhile, the war is of course presented as a struggle between good and evil.
But there are ways to cut through to another layer of reality. Youtube, for example. Look into the faces of the resistance. Listen to its defiant voice. Walk in their footsteps. And then ask, who are they and why are they?