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

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Turkey’s Real Corruption Scandal

Click here to access article by William Engdahl from Boiling Frogs Post.

The directors of the Empire occasionally have problems keeping their vassals in line and following orders. This has become apparent with some independent actions by members of Saudi Arabia's medieval gang called the Gulf Cooperation Council. The latter's actions in Egypt and Syria have not always been approved of by the Empire's directorate. However, Turkey's dictator Erdogan has been especially rebellious which Engdahl outlines in this essay, and the latter sees possible major geopolitical effects if he succeeds in his various foreign policy adventures.
Erdogan, a scrappy political infighter for all his eccentricities, has fought back and accused “foreign powers” of standing behind his now-arch enemy, former Imam Fethullah Gülen, considered by the US Embassy in Ankara to be the most powerful man in Turkey. What is unfolding across Turkey is far more interesting than your ordinary politician graft scandal.
One also finds many articles currently run in Turkish media regarding Gülen. See this and other articles regarding Gülen from the same website, and this.
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