Surviving Capitalism (Not) : World War II continues… against Russia

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, May 11, 2014

World War II continues… against Russia

Click here to access article by Finian Cunningham from nsnbc.

On this anniversary of the formal end of WWII in Europe (May 7th), Cunningham's article reviews real history to clarify what he means in this paragraph:

This ongoing reality of conflict is because the Second World War, as with the First World War, was not merely about belligerents confined in time and space. These conflagrations were really about imperialist power conflict and hegemony whose dynamics still persist to the present day.

"To the present day", of course, refers to current events in Ukraine.

He provides much more historical detail of the European part of WWII in an article entitled "Western Reset of Fascist Aggression Towards Russia" posted at Strategic Culture.