Surviving Capitalism (Not) : The War on Wall Street May Be Over, Guess Who Is Winning?

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

Monday, July 19, 2010

The War on Wall Street May Be Over, Guess Who Is Winning?

by Danny Schlecter from Creative-i. The author looks at the recently passed financial "reform" bill, and the interpretation given it by the "newspaper of record".

The political environment seems grim, not only for Obama, but for all progressive change. That moment may have passed. This does not mean the public is not angry, only that’s its anger is deliberately being channeled by our media in a false direction, into bashing deficits and Dems, not the men in the shadows who are calling the shots.

The "men in the shadows" are always with us pulling the strings behind the puppet show which is called, "Democracy in America". Until we see through all the corporate media garbage and look at the real show, the real people pulling the strings, we will continue on the road to economic chaos and environmental degradation.