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, July 19, 2012

The Brotherhood's one per cent

Click here to access article by Wael Gamal from Ahram Online (Egypt). 
What lies between the president and social justice is the elite of the Brotherhood, the one per cent, who are set to pursue the same neo-liberal policies which led to the revolution.
Another way to characterize the election charades sponsored by Empire elites and collaborators is that "the more things change, the more they stay the same".

Although I have seen scattered reports of people charging fraudulent processes during the election proceedings in Egypt, what I would like to see are detailed studies of how elites engineer elections to produce the outcomes they achieve which is to continue the rule of the One Percents, but with different actors. Thus, their elections are simply a way of re-packaging neo-liberal capitalist rule with different wrappers. Such operations are designed to preserve a patina of legitimacy to the ruling One Percents of various nations.