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

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Israel-Palestine: By the Numbers

Click here to access article by independent journalist Garry Leech from his blog. 
...this article seeks to use numbers to present the historical reality in an easily accessible manner and to highlight the distortions and inaccuracies that are prevalent in the rhetoric that emanates from Washington and Ottawa as well as the propaganda promulgated by the mainstream media in these nations. 
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