Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Predator Drones To “Stop Genocide”?

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

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Predator Drones To “Stop Genocide”?

Click here to access a transcript of an interview with Keith Harmon Snow from AfroBeat Radio.

In my opinion, Snow is the best informed independent investigative journalist on issues related to Africa. In this interview he is largely responding to the propaganda piece carried by Wired Magazine and repeated in many other media outlets.

AfrobeatRadio producer Ann Garrison spoke to journalist, human rights investigator, and electrical engineer Keith Harmon Snow about the lobbying campaign to use General Atomics’ Predator Drones “to stop genocide” in Africa.