Surviving Capitalism (Not) : The trillion dollar road to Armageddon

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

Monday, February 10, 2014

The trillion dollar road to Armageddon

Click here to access article by Ira Helfand and Robert Dodge from Common Dreams.'

The authors expose the obvious hypocrisy of the nuclear armed countries. On the other hand, I'm not so sure that the dismantling of nuclear weapons by these countries would assure peace. Was there peace before nuclear weapons? There is really something very true about Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). The real and only solution, of course, is the elimination of the predatory system of capitalism which make wars inevitable.