Surviving Capitalism (Not) : America Preparing For A Post-Israel Middle East?

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, August 28, 2012

America Preparing For A Post-Israel Middle East?

Click here to access article by Franklin Lamb from Al-Manar (Lebanon).

Although I've never thought of this author as a comedian, while reading this fantastic article I kept waiting for a final punch line like "just kidding!", etc. Then I wondered if he was suffering from some type of mental illness or had just taken some type of hallucinatory drug.

But, look at his resumé:

Franklin Lamb, former Assistant Counsel, US House Judiciary Committee and Professor of International Law at Northwestern College of Law in Oregon, earned his Law Degree at Boston University and his LLM, M.Phil., and PhD degrees at the London School of Economics. Following three years at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Lamb was visiting fellow at the Harvard Law School’s East Asian Legal Studies Center.

It has been picked up by a variety of other websites, most notably Foreign Policy Journal. Anyway, read it and see if you believe it.