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

Sunday, July 7, 2013

A year of democratic farce in Egypt: Samir Amin

Click here to access article from Tlaxcala featuring "Samir Amin, Egyptian philosopher and economist, director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, [who] talks about the last year in Egypt with the Brotherhood in power, interviewed by Giuseppe Acconcia."

I am, and will be, devoting a lot of articles on the situation in Egypt. I have a strong hunch that what is happening there and Syria are moving toward a turning point in the fortunes of the Empire, and thus are critically important in foreseeing the future course of history.
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