Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Media Coverup on the Corporate Pillage and Destruction of sub-Saharan Africa

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

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Media Coverup on the Corporate Pillage and Destruction of sub-Saharan Africa

by P. Wilkenson from Global Research. This is a bit of a rant, but the author makes the important point that mainstream media coverage of the events in this region of the world is extremely deficient. I find that when you get poor coverage of a topic or area, you will, if you can find the information, discover a lot of corporate crimes involved. That is certainly true of this area of the world. (Note: I am constantly irritated by the practice of writers to use abbreviations/acronyms without any referents. In this article, "NSDAP" refers to the Nazi party.)