The US is doing some good there, I've seen it; there's a long way to go before we even get close to balancing it out. If in your view the US is incapable of doing anything positive in any regard, maybe you're closer to those isolationists than I thought. Why then do you bother to lobby the USG and speak at briefings on Capitol Hill? Wallerstein's basic premise (and this was during the Cold War) was that the whole world economy is basically a capitalist enterprise (and I would argue basically always has been in some form), and that nation-states serve only to regulate the relationship between capital and labor w/in their borders.Replacing capitalism entails changing some very basic elements of human nature. See Cuba's effort to promote "the New Communist Man" in the late 1960's -- which not only didn't work, but could only have a chance of succeeding in the short to medium tern within a police state.Another thought: Why are you guys selling your CDs instead of giving them away to the masses? And at Tower among others? Aren't they sort of the Starbucks of the music industry?