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, July 10, 2013

Ahmed Assem: the Egyptian photographer who chronicled his own death

Click here to access article by Robert Tait and Magdy Samaan and 0:31m video  from The Telegraph.

This disturbing incident immediately brought to my mind earlier reports of such sniper incidents, especially targeting journalists, that occurred in Syria, Libya (see this), and Iraq. The use of snipers seems to be a pattern, and a tactic used by foreign militaries. Could they have learned this while attending the School of the Americas, sometimes referred to as "School of Assassins"?
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