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

Saturday, November 23, 2013

The American Criminal Elite: An Orgy of Thieves

Click here to access article by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn from CounterPunch. (Note: this is an updated version of an article in the November 2000 edition of The New Statesman.)

I wonder how many times that this essay will be updated. Surely my fellow Americans will wake up before too long and take matters in their own hands!