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

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The Pentagon-Arab Spring love story

Click here to access article by Pepe Escobar from NYTimes eXaminer. 
Anyone who hoped the Arab Spring might eventually take over the Persian Gulf and those lands once known as Arabia Felix has enough reason to drown in sadness.

The Arab counter-revolution is stronger than ever – led by the House of Saud and its monarchy minions at the Gulf Counter-revolution Club (GCC), officially known as Gulf Cooperation Council. And their most precious ally is the Pentagon.
The author uses his exceptional analytical tools to dismantle NY Times propaganda and to construct a very different scenario--Middle East oil kingdoms as a NATO annex dedicated to serving the Empire and crushing dissent.

Read also Glenn Greenwald's article entitled, "Middle East propaganda 101", where he provides another very good counter-propaganda analysis. Clearly the Empire's media pieces are becoming ever more ludicrous and the butt of many jokes. 

Meanwhile, the Empire seems to be threatened from within with all the debt crises, economic destruction, and activist occupations. It makes me wonder when it will be that the US public reaches a critical mass of rejection of Empire propaganda. When that happens, we will see the disintegration of capitalist rule greatly accelerate.
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