Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Attention Shoppers! The Westgate Mall In America's Jihad Bargain

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, October 27, 2013

Attention Shoppers! The Westgate Mall In America's Jihad Bargain

Click here to access article by the blogger of the Polemicist.

For Americans who might have more than a passing interest in understanding why such atrocities happen, and who might want to do more than shake their heads, after the fact, in bafflement and moral self-righteousness, one might start out with the always-cogent Jeremy Scahill’s explanation of “where al-Shabaab came from,” and how it came to target Kenya.

The blogger provides information to indicate the Kenyan mall terrorists were another creation of the Empire. Unfortunately, his myopic perspective attributes agency to ruling class public relations employees such as Obama and UN Ambassador Samatha Powers.