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, July 30, 2011

Libya: Washington prepares its revenge

Click here to access article by Thierry Meyssan from Voltaire Net. 

I regard this author as one of the best informed and most astute observers of events related to the Empire. In this article he outlines three steps that the Empire's agents are taking, and will take, to deal with the stalemate in Libya: stealing the assets and preparing the looting, negotiating a military exit, and then...
After the cease-fire takes effect, the United States will deploy an intense secret activity to reverse the political equation.
You know, using one of those "color revolution" strategies they employed in other countries with some success.