Surviving Capitalism (Not) : “Collective nervous breakdown” rocks Bosnia

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, February 9, 2014

“Collective nervous breakdown” rocks Bosnia

Click here to access article by Balkanist from Reflections on a Revolution.

Read about another casualty of the Empire's neoliberal agenda for the world.

“He who sows hunger reaps anger,” warned the red graffiti on a Sarajevo government building this week. The message hinted at the depth of poverty and disillusionment in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) that has driven people to join demonstrations across the divided country, where the unemployment rate is about 40 percent.

Also, this piece from the same website describes the same situation by another author.

For history on Empire's planned and executed dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, I recommend this article.