Surviving Capitalism (Not) : NYC's deadly deal with Israeli apartheid

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, January 17, 2012

NYC's deadly deal with Israeli apartheid

Click here to access article by Sherry Wolf from Socialist Worker.

...under the guise of research, this deal would cement a lucrative bond between the financial capital of the U.S. empire and Israel's military-industrial complex.

Looking at US-Israel relations from a dog and tail metaphorical point of view, it is often difficult to tell where the main body of the dog ends and the tail begins, and which is wagging which. US and Israel are already so well integrated that some people in the US have advocated bringing Israel in as a 51st US state. That way the citizens of this apartheid state and Empire outpost would contribute tax revenue to the US Treasury which would help fund the $3 billion-plus aid that goes every year to Israel from US taxpayers.