Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Northern "Biopirates" Gobbling up Resources

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Northern "Biopirates" Gobbling up Resources

from IPS news service. Here again, in an otherwise fine article, the authors use circumlocutions to describe the predatory actions of capitalist countries. They use terms like "rich countries", "the North", "geo-sphere people", "biopirates" instead of capitalist countries. The Empire has multiple ways of enforcing the "correct" use of language on journalists.