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

Friday, December 2, 2016

Saving Face: America's TPP Disaster

Click here to access article by Joseph Thomas for New Eastern Outlook. 

The author poses some interesting thoughts as suggested in the headline about the significance of Trump's election/selection to be the CEO of US Empire, Inc. According to Thomas, while our masters may have given up the idea of TPP, they will continue with the other methods of containing China.
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