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

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Three-minute Cliffs Notes of U.S. foreign policy [3:00m video]

by Glenn Greenwald from Salon.  (a must-view video)

Greenwald provides an excellent 3 minute clip in which a former CIA operative and terrorist contractor is interviewed by John Pilger. The interviewee gives a no-bullshit, concise summary of US foreign policy as it actually is.