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

Monday, October 10, 2011

End Game for Greece (Or Preparing for the Final Solution)

Click here to access article Research Institute for European and American Studies.  
The Papandreou regime, acting as the agent for the Troika, has been methodically destroying the livelihoods, hopes, and longer term prospects of millions of people, who have suddenly discovered themselves under foreign, mainly German, occupation yet again. 
The article makes some interesting points about the parallels with the earlier history of German occupation during WWII when capitalist countries were engaged in a war of inter-capitalist rivalry and dominance, and uses the parallels to compare today's neo-liberal policies of the integrated capitalist empire with those of the Third Reich--not much difference.

(Note the correct use of the word "reform" in quotation marks.)
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