My Identiy Crisis

I am a 62 year old American political refugee living in New Zealand for the past seven years. I am in the process of publishing a memoir about the events that led me to leave the United State (The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee). My publisher has insisted I start blogging - as apparently this is how authors get published these days. For someone of my age this was somewhat of a hurdle in itself.

It has taken seven years to bring to publication what was intended as an expose of domestic (within the continental US) death squad activities carried out by (I assume) some branch of military intelligence, who are most likely to be responsible for domestic covert assassinations.

What I found hardest about starting a blog is that the political landscape has changed drastically in seven years. I am staring in the face of the possible extinction of the human species - in a climate where the citizenry of the Western democracies have absolutely no input into the actions of their elected governments. Many mornings I wake up absolutely frantic asking myself the question over and over again: "What do we do? What the f**k can we do to keep this speeding train from plunging off the cliff?"

I was then asked to do a virtual blog tour - to get other blogs to link to my site. This has been even more difficult because I had no idea how to find other bloggers with ideas and views similar to mine. First I tried conspiracy and expose blogs (such as the Huffington Post), green blogs, then climate change and Peak Energy blogs, then left and socialist blogs (the socialist blogs I could understand seemed mostly about theory - nothing about actual organizing). Finally out of desperation I tried anarchist blogs. And guess what? I finally found people who had very similar ideas and wrote about them in the same way. It turns out I am not an ugly duckling after all. I am a left libertarian (with green anarcho feminist tendancies)

Please check me out at http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com

My early posts relate mainly to the perspective my new life in New Zealand gave me on the US. At present my blogs relate mainly to the major crisis we face and what we can do to re-take control of public information from the corporate media.