Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Cuba Sees a Crisis, and Sends Docs; The US Sees an Opportunity and Sends Troops

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

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Cuba Sees a Crisis, and Sends Docs; The US Sees an Opportunity and Sends Troops

Click here to access article by Dave Lindorff from This Can't Be Happening!

Lindorff compares the two nations' responses to the ebola crisis in Africa, and suspects that the directors of the Empire see only an opportunity to gain a large foothold in resource-rich Africa.

Anyone who thinks this dispatching of US military personnel to Africa is about combating a plague is living in a fantasy world. This is about projecting US military power further into Africa, which has already been a goal of the Obama administration, anxious to prevent China from gaining control over African mineral resources, and to control them for US exploitation.