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, March 13, 2012

Why the CIA Funds Nonviolence Training

Click here to access article by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall from Dissident Voice. 

The author, who is living in exile in New Zealand after years of harassment by the FBI, appears to have uncovered...
...mounting evidence of the role CIA and Pentagon-funded foundations and think tanks play in funding and promoting nonviolent resistance training.
I have long had suspicions about this and look forward to looking at the evidence she provides in this and the next four installments of the article. It appears that she may also focus attention on phony progressive type organizations that seem to support democratic and human rights concerns that are funded by right-wing groups with government funding.

We are seeing this today with the activities of the Invisible Children charity foundation. See this and this for more details.
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