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

Sunday, June 30, 2013

NSA - Recording One Billion Phonecalls Per Day

Click here to access article by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama. 

After listening to a talk given by Glenn Greenwald at the Socialism 2013 conference regarding the latest government surveillance revelations, Bernhard reaches a somewhat different conclusion than Greenwald who concluded: "It is a globalized system designed to destroy all privacy."
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