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 9, 2011

A Revolution Against Resistance?

Click here to access article by Ibrahim al-Amin from Al-Akhbar.

The covert Western sponsored resistance in Syria is starting to reveal its true identity with recent statements. The author contends that such statements reveal the true intentions of the insurgents and their masters:
...to take Syria out of the regional alliance of which it is an essential part – the alliance comprising the resistance and its supporters [against Israeli and Western dominance] – and into another alliance, the one currently striving to topple the current regime in Syria. The latter opposes the resistance, and defers to the US and Israel’s demands to deny support to the forces of resistance in Lebanon and Palestine.
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