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, October 2, 2013

No Time for Jubilation Washington Will Only Continue Its Crimes as long as MIC [Military-Industrial Complex]

Click here to access article by William C. Lewis from The 4th Media
This war, foreign and domestic doesn’t just end–and people shouldn’t attempt to fool themselves or others.

Perpetual mass-media deception and pervasive surveillance encompass a never ending train of abuse that won’t end any time soon. As long as armaments factories continue producing weapons of death for the fortune 500 Wall Street elite who reside in U.S. capitalist society, war and threats of war will continue to expand and take on an ever deadly character.
Well, I don't think that US capitalists along with their NATO associates have a monopoly on profiting off of weapons and war, they are merely the most organized and have the most weapons at this stage of history. Yesterday it was the German capitalists, tomorrow it might be Chinese capitalists or Russian capitalists or Brazilian capitalists and we will likely see wars of competition and dominance among them. So long as the capitalist system exists, we will have weapons of mass destruction, wars, and environmental destruction. There is no mystery here--it pays in enormous profits and power for a tiny few who control the system.

We have a choice: we can simply give up and accept a dreadful future or we change the system.