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, January 9, 2013

The Brennan nomination: A government of torturers and assassins

Click here to access article by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site.

Apparently now that torture is more out of sight and out of mind, Obama felt able to give the CIA's top job appropriately to US's top torturer and war criminal. Given that the CIA is US's secret agency used by the One Percent ruling class to promote the extension of their Empire by any means necessary, it seems to me that sociopathic Brennan was the perfect choice.
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