Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Call for Iran sanctions backed by muscle

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

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Call for Iran sanctions backed by muscle

by Jim Lobe from Asia Times Online. The US Zionist lobby is cranking up its pro-war efforts toward Iran.

"It's clear to me that the clock toward the collapse of this regime works much slower than the clock which ticks toward Iran becoming [a] nuclear military power," Barak told an audience at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think-tank closely tied to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading Israel Lobby organization.