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, February 14, 2012

High-Tech Trickery in Homs?

Click here to access article by Sharmine Narwani from Al-Akhbar. 

US mainstream media followers have been flooded with Syrian government atrocities against its citizens to manage the consent of US citizens to promote the Empire's support of the Syrian opposition and intervention by other countries in support of Syrian opposition forces. The coverage has been totally one-sided and simplistic. This article appears to uncover some glaring deceptions in this propaganda campaign. 

Meanwhile all coverage of the ongoing anti-government protests and severe government repression in Bahrain where the US 5th Fleet is stationed has disappeared from US media. View this You-Tube 4:44 video of yesterday's protest in Bahrain.


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