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, January 10, 2013

Syria: A jihadi paradise

Click here to access article by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online.

The brilliant political analyst and journalist again tells it like it is in the Middle East, specifically, in Syria by exposing the machinations of the Empire to replace Assad with agents of their latest favored puppet du jour, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Facts on the ground...spell that Assad is not going anywhere anytime soon.