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, August 13, 2010

Drug money [23:44m video]

by Melanie Newman and Chris Woods from Al Jazeera. 

The investigators look closely at the corruption in the US pharmaceutical industry that is draining of so much of health care spending to feed the profit obsession of the drug selling corporations. Learn how they corrupt doctors to use them as pimps for their products. Learn how they push poorly tested drugs, and knowingly covering up information on drugs that often end up causing more harm than good. None of this, of course, makes it into the carefully managed mainstream news in the US.
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