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

Friday, December 6, 2013

GMOs, Science And Nonsense: Retracting Seralini's Study

Click here to access article by Colin Todd Hunter from Countercurrents.

The implications of this piece and others like it are profound: the contamination of scientific work by the private interests of global corporations. Since the Age of Enlightenment science and its rigorous methods for the testing of knowledge has raised humans out of the swamps of superstition and ignorance. Scientists struggled during centuries of persecution by religious authorities who served various ruling classes, and now it is faced with history's most formidable foe--global corporations and their transnational ruling class of capitalists. Hunter reports on many of the recent battles, most of which have been lost. 
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