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, August 12, 2014

NYT Discovers Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis at War

Click here to access article by Robert Parry from ConsortiumNews.

Neo-Nazis wave their flag after capturing Ukrainian town.
Parry highlights the latest dramatic example of news management by media directors of the Empire regarding the neo-Nazis that the Empire is backing in Ukraine.  

In their aims for global control, Empire directors often must recruit and use the lowest-of-the-low to facilitate their imperialist agenda, but while doing so their media must always keep such facts hidden or minimized to avoid disturbing their subjects. There has been widespread indications of neo-Nazi involvement in Ukraine, and ruling class media directors have had to exert great control to shape the developments in Ukraine to encourage maximum public support for their agenda. To do this, they often tap into the old cold-war game of blaming Russia.
The New York Times reported almost in passing on Sunday that the Ukrainian government’s offensive against ethnic Russian rebels in the east has unleashed far-right paramilitary militias that have even raised a neo-Nazi banner over the conquered town of Marinka, just west of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
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