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 LappĆ©, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Interview with Osama bin Laden. Denies his Involvement in 9/11


Click here to access article from Global Research.

The editor of Global Research, Michel Chossudovsky, does us a great service by republishing this interview with Osama bin Laden that occurred shortly after the 9/11 attack. The interview, as I recall, was very superficially reported by US mainstream media at that time.

I find bin Laden's observations to be very creditable and plausible, much more so than the carefully framed propaganda that came out from the war hawks such as Dick Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Perle.