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, June 12, 2010

Jamaica's Shower Posse: How The CIA Created "The Most Notorious Criminal Organization"

from News One for Black America. 

This is an excellent synthesis of a number of reliable background sources of information in order to understand the recent violence in Jamaica. One again, you have the Empire's enforcers destabilizing a government that it does not like, and in the process creates social chaos for generations to come.