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, November 12, 2010

The Fight to Save Social Security Begins

by Shamus Cooke from Global Research. 

As is revealed in the article, it is not only Social Security that is targeted, but many other attacks on working people are being made ready to be launched. Now that the distractions of the election circus is over, the ruling class will proceed to take away more from working people so that their class can accumulate more wealth. 

With capitalist enterprises pushing on the ecological limits of the Earth, the world economy has taken on the characteristics of a "zero-sum" game. Actually, I believe that we are now seeing the "sum" part of this phenomenon decreasing. The implications of this is that the capitalist ruling classes will be aggressively attacking working people more than ever before. This is what we are witnessing now in many parts of the world due to the economic collapse.
With national elections barely over, Republicans and Democrats unveiled their real political agenda, in the form of Obama's Deficit Reduction Commission. The bi-partisan commission has a nightmare vision for working people that, if implemented, will remold American society to mirror the current ruler of U.S. politics -- the corporations and wealthy.
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