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, August 15, 2014

The inhabitants of Donetsk see their “liberators” as murderers

Thanks to Seemorerocks website for posting this CNN broadcast via YouTube.



This kind of major US corporate news coverage is extremely rare--in fact, I've seen nothing like it. US citizens have been bombarded with monolithic anti-Russian propaganda that resembles what occurred in Nazi Germany before their invasion of Russia and familiar to Americans during the Cold War--only the content is different and more sophisticated. The dramatic events of the Israeli massacre of Gazans, and then the US equipped Islamic jihadist threat in Iraq offer convenient distractions from the horrors of war that are being perpetrated by the US-backed Kiev government against people in the eastern provinces of Ukraine.
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