TRUTH SEEKING

About the Book

Truth Seeking: Travels in a Time of Terror/Wars & Religious Fundamentalists (TS) follows, during the tumultuous Years of 2000-2005, our traipsing through Southern Britain-Guernsey/ Greece-Aegean Islands/Ireland/Tuscany/Wales/Scotland/Mexico (Copper Canyon); London/Dublin/Paris; Western Caribbean Norwegian Sky Cruise; and intensive Bird Watching Trips to Trinidad & Tobago (Asa Wright), Belize, Florida (Central, Merritt Island & The Lower Keys) and Port Medway, Nova Scotia (Eskimo Curlew Search). Scattered throughout the various Travel Narrative Chapters are favorite recipes, lists of “Birds Seen” in foreign climes, and many wonderful synchronicities. And at the end of many chapters is a “Running Political-Military Commentary” on candidate & President Bush’s stewardship of the 43rd Presidency & of the American People’s hopes & expectations. There are also four Appendices that are devoted to President Bush’s extremist/revolutionary/radical Strategic-Political-Military policies shaped by his personal Fundamentalist, Evangelical religious beliefs and the New American Oil-Empire in Western & Central Asia of his Neo-Con/Theo-Con advisers. Also tracked in TS is the growing and worrisome influence, within the Republican Party of the Fundamentalist, Conservative Evangelists and their obsession with creating of Christian America & Evangelical Theocracy and imposing it on us within this “Terminal Generation.” They are convinced that our times are filled with “End Time Signs” & non-born again “Left Behind” refugees, before the impending Armageddon-WW III & the Second Coming of “Their” General Lord Jesus Christ. Truth Seeking (2000-2005) is meant to be a continuation of my predictions, warnings and Fascist fears developed in It Can Happen Here: A Fascist Christian America (2000) which have greatly accelerated under George W. Bush (2001-2005) our Fundamentalist/Evangelical “Commander-In-Belief” and his band of fanatic Neo-Con/Theo-Con advisers. In Vol. # 2 of It Can Happen Here I discussed the Ten Insights which inspired me to write my prophetic warnings about the grave dangers of the evolving relationships between the religious-military ideas of Protestant Fundamentalism’s controlling doctrine that Armageddon-WW III was prophetically necessary to trigger the End Time Events leading to the Second Coming of THEIR General Lord Jesus Christ. AND the political right- wing doctrine of winning Thermonuclear Wars with a massive nuclear superiority, a full-blown BMD. And in TS I now add the Rumsfeld/RAND/Neo-Con’s Strategic Revolution: A modernized, “transformed” military (R.M.A.) capable of carving out & defending a New American Empire in the oil rich Central/Western Asia, under the cover of spreading “Democracy” to the Arab world. (The Bush Administration’s attempt to develop a New Paradigm-GP #4 for Global Domination is discussed in Appendices # 1 & #2.) The “Travels” in this book occurred from 2000-2005. Politically they cover the Presidential Campaigns of 2000 & 2004, Bush’s Inaugurations of 2001 & 2005 and the Bush Administration’s strategic/political-military & diplomatic responses to Terror (9-11-01—2005), Wars (Afghan War of 2001-2005); The Iraq War (19 March 2003-2005). And TERROR & WAR were waged within the context of growing worldwide phenomena of RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM—at home and abroad. Indeed RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM is part and parcel of both Terror and War, that has symbolized the 21st Century, and the Third “Christian” Millennium to date. During the years 2000-2005 Terror and War both evolved within the context of an increasing Fundamentalist Dimension, that seems to have taken our secular world back to the Great Religious Wars of Christian Europe. [The 100 Years War between Catholics & Protestants that ended in 1648 at the Treaty of Westphalia.] Indeed the wars of the opening years of the 21st century & Third Millennium—Chechnya/Afghanistan /Iraq have elements of the Christian Crusades of 10

About the Author

GEORGE E. LOWE was born in Scranton, PA (1928) and educated in the public schools of New York/New Jersey/PA. He graduated from Grove City College (BA-1950) and U. of Chicago (MA-1953) and taught at all levels of American education (1950-93). Served over 30 years in the Federal Government (1953-88), including US Naval Air Intelligence Officer (Japan, Hawaii & the Pentagon), Foreign Service Officer (African Affairs & Paris Embassy), and Civil Servant (OE/ED). Author of The Age of Deterrence , Little, Brown (1964), It Can Happen Here: A Fascist Christian America, Xlibris, (2000), two Vols. and many articles on military policy, nuclear weapons, education, and the environment. Speechwriter in Navy Dept. (1961,65)/ Department of Education (1981-88). Married in 1954, with two daughters and three Jack Russell Terriers. Hobbies are cooking/baking, book collecting, traveling, and bird watching. Splits the year in Stuart, Florida and Port Medway, Nova Scotia.