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

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Amnesty International and the War in Ukraine

Click here to access article by Vladislav Gulevich at The Greanville Post. 

Gulevich, a Ukrainian journalist who covered the violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government and subsequently fled the country, has reviewed a report by Amnesty International and found it to be grossly biased, not based on the reality of his experience. My own reading of the report suggests to me that not only is the report biased, but it reads like a report from a Western propaganda agency.