Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Gadhafi’s crime: Making Libya’s economy work for Libyans

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, May 8, 2012

Gadhafi’s crime: Making Libya’s economy work for Libyans

Click here to access article by Stephen Gowans from What's Left.

In some parts of the world, the arrangement is different...governments have organized their economies to serve their citizens, rather than organizing labor, the country’s markets and its natural resources to serve outside investors and foreign corporations.

For refusing to give their citizens’ lives over to the enrichment of foreign titans of finance and captains of industry, these countries are made to pay a price.

In this excellent piece the author exposes the real factors driving the Empire's policies and actions throughout the world.