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

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

An Arab War-Crimes Court for Syria?

Click here to access article by Eugene Schulman from NYTimes eXaminer. 

US is an equal opportunity employer--women can be war criminals, too.

Let us be honest, it was the U.S. and its NATO allies that instigated this revolution in Syria, just as they did in Libya. For all the authoritarianism of his regime, Assad is also defending his country from foreign backed insurrection.