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, June 16, 2011

Obama Defends Libya War, Rejects Need For Congress Vote

Click here to access article by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site. 

The political operatives of the ruling class have successfully gotten away with so much war making that they hardly make a pretense of following Constitutional law. Emperor Obama (of course, he is no emperor, but only a public relations officer for the ruling class) declared the Libyan campaign to be legal, so it is. That is precisely the way mainstream media reported this event, except they left the "emperor" part out. The 9/11 tragedy, which in my estimation was a ruthlessly engineered event, has succeeded in putting the American people in the "right" frame of mind (pun intended) in order to...
support wars abroad in defense of the interests of the ruling financial aristocracy, as well as the attacks on basic democratic and social rights that accompany the unrestrained growth of militarism.
It is also interesting to me that any sort of court hearing on anything related to 9/11 or alleged terrorist prisoners is being vigorously opposed by politicos. See this.
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