in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
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
Thursday, August 29, 2013
50 Years Later - West Defiles Martin Luther King's Memory
It's great to see this blogger back offering his penetrating insights on all things political. Here he points out the hypocrisy of the Western propaganda machine by citing an Associated Press article trying to merge the image of Obama with ML King.
The US shadow government whose members hangout in the major banks, global oil corporations, and their so-called "think tanks" (they're really conspiracy tanks) are very clever people. They would have to be to "cover the wool" over most workers eyes for the past several hundreds of years. This use of Obama's black skin is probably right at the top of the list of clever ploys that our ruling class has used.
Next up, it looks like the Democratic party members of the ruling class are grooming a woman, Hillary Clinton, to be the figure-head president (in reality the chief public relations officer of the ruling class's government). Thus, they turn racism and sexism on its head to legitimatize the continued exploitation of a population whose members have been thoroughly indoctrinated in racism and sexism by the same ruling class for centuries. Ain't that clever?