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, August 11, 2011

The Pentagon's Fake Jihadists

Click here to access article by Tom Engelhardt from his blog, Tom Dispatch.

What about the effect of Pentagon's Jihadi versions on unbalanced people like Anders Behring Breivik and Jared Lee Loughner? 
Don't think deterrence here, think blowback. 
The motivation behind this program is quite likely to encourage terrorist attacks (blowbacks) on the US to justify more invasions and domestic police state methods--resulting in benefits to the military-industrial complex that serves as the enforcer for the Empire.
 
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