Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Daniel Ellsberg Says He Fears US Might Assassinate Wikileaks Founder (10:31m video and transcript)

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, June 12, 2010

Daniel Ellsberg Says He Fears US Might Assassinate Wikileaks Founder (10:31m video and transcript)

from FireDogLake. As a former target of a CIA hit squad for leaking secret government immoral and illegal acts , he knows whereof he speaks.

“We have after all for the first time, that I ever perhaps in any democratic country, we have a president who has announced that he feels he has the right to use special operations operatives against anyone abroad, that he thinks is associated with terrorism,”