Photo Synthesis

David Dees spent many years promoting consumer products, and then promoting Hollywood movies. Eventually, his political awakening came when he realised the the 9/11 events had been an inside job, organised to trigger a new cold war, enrich the military-industrial complex and hand totalitarian powers to the booming world of spooks. When he collided with the MSM clamp-down on 9/11 scepticism, he adapted his skills to creating satirical political art that could populate the internet universe, and subvert the imagery presented by the corporate whores. There's a load more of his pictures here , or there's a slide-show on YouTube. There are about two million Americans who list themselves as artists. I wish more of them would turn their hand to this kind of art and make it current in schools and on campuses.

The picture above illustrates the juggernaut effect of NAFTA, spreading big-box outlets, freeway consumer hangers and exurban automobile mazes across the old woods, farms and market towns of the earlier U.S. and Canadian landscape. Where I live, we have a new Wal-Mart, western Canada's biggest, where every shopper goes in a carbon-guzzling automobile. This is exactly the opposite of the kind of integrated, energy-saving, locally-controlled communities we need, and Mr. Dees's picture says it all at a glance.