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

Friday, August 20, 2010

Global Empire and the International Banking Cartel (part 2)

by Damon Vrabel from Council on Renewal. This is a continuation of last week's article--see my post regarding Part 1. 

From my cursory review of this website, it appears to me that he comes from a libertarian point of view in company with Ron Paul, Ellen Brown, etc, but his understanding of politics in the broadest sense appears to be very limited. I do not share his libertarian perspective as I've argued previously in this post. But much of the work exposing the banking scams have been done by libertarians, and we owe them a debt of gratitude.

The author makes some very interesting observations and assertions, but I need far more study of the subject to evaluate his points. I don't think that the subject of banking and money is all that difficult; but because it has been so obfuscated beyond recognition and the difficulty in finding reliable, informed sources of information, it takes time to unravel. To be sure, it is a vital, necessary-to-understand subject if we are to create a world safe for working people.
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