Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Critiquing the Washington Post on Al Qaeda and the American Empire

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

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Critiquing the Washington Post on Al Qaeda and the American Empire

Click here to access article by Michael McGehee from his blog Truth Addict.

The author starts with a critique of a disinformation piece in a major Empire newspaper regarding Al Queda and continues on to cite evidence that traces the terrorism of this group back Saudi Arabia and its allies. He uncovers a lot of inconsistencies between the evidence and what the Washington Post article asserts as well as all the justifying propaganda for Empire policies and actions in the the Middle East and Eurasia. Such inconsistencies raise numerous disturbing questions about US policies and activities.