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, May 7, 2011

Humanitarian Neo-colonialism: Framing Libya and Reframing War

Click here to access article by F. William Engdahl from VoltaireNet.

The author discusses the international use of two new doctrines to justify the Empire's attacks on governments that promote more independent policies. It reminds me so much of the framing of questionable policies within the US used by political operatives to manipulate public opinion in support of imperial policies and a crackdown on dissent within the US: "national interest", "national security", "war on terror".
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