What the hell is going on???

What the hell is going?
This is a question that has been bothering me for weeks now, first I can not sleep anymore, or rather only few hours a night. This is not all together to odd, yet something else came up this was Thailand, the real-time example of how power corrupts...within a few weeks. Then we have Iraq in a state of emergency, why is that, many argue that western intervention by the US and earlier is the cause for that, most think, and I tend to agree that the best thing to do would be to let them fight it out and then afterwards, help, but only if asked for help. Then there is the Russian ex-spy that was supposedly killed by the Russian Intelligence service, the killing upset the British which now want to know what happened, while Russia denies everything...
In Afghanistan German soldiers hug and kiss skulls which then leads to several law suits, further other nations that take part in the Afghanistan mission, Canada one of them are pressuring Germany to sent troops to the south to help them. Germany insists
on staying with the mandate and with the troop number dispatched to Afghanistan right now, while Canada makes Germany responsible for losses. In Africa people flee the Congo and die of starvation, if that is not bad enough then AIDS well get you. In India the population is suffering under the effects of the industry which often used India as source of water and other resources. In China a industrial boom is taking place leaving nearly a billion standing alone while the rest of the Chinese population is taking off. Iceland whales again...Global Warming is denied or at least questioned in the popular press, which guarantees confusion for the population. The mass-media is used as means for political goals, not as it was envisioned to allow the people more information. Magazines and newspapers make stories up, or rather some writers which write for them do, only few states in the US work towards the reduction of emissions. The environment is short changed by corporations and the human race, many say that the only way that humans realize that there is limit is for humans to reach it and literally crash into the wall. Some believe that there is hope, many doubt the existence of God while those who believe often become fanatic. Terrorist is now anyone who opposes a certain way of living, the modern witch hunt was born again but instead of communists we now hunt Terrorists, some states want all the information available on someone when they wish it to be so while other states oppose that view.
All these events and the current social and ideological situation remind me a great deal of the pre-Great War (WW1) 1900's, when the political world was dominated by fear, and interest in new land. While the population dreamed of peace that would be ever lasting, now todays population might be a bit more disillusioned but it does remind me a great deal of that time.

So I ask again what the hell is going?...Why all this?