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, June 28, 2015

Here is the simple proposal Yanis Varoufakis should have given to the IMF’s Lagarde…

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While the IMF and EU have refused to work with Greece to solve the debt crisis, pushing Athens and the entire EU into the realm of the unknown…the IMF will gladly lend, throw away money to fund Ukraine…a ready to default, neo-nazi governed, at civil war failed state.