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

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The Shame of Being an American

by Paul Craig Roberts from Foreign Policy Journal.

The lies continue to be revealed: Lies used to slaughter millions of people in foreign lands, to justify police state methods in our own land (USA), to starve the public sector in order to feed the voracious appetite of the profiteering war machine, and to serve the psychotic fantasies of power mad individuals.
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