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, April 14, 2015

Neocon ‘Chaos Promotion’ in the Mideast

Click here to access article by Ray McGovern from ConsortiumNews.
Former Washington insider and four-star General Wesley Clark spilled the beans several years ago on how Paul Wolfowitz and his neoconservative co-conspirators implemented their sweeping plan to destabilize key Middle Eastern countries once it became clear that post-Soviet Russia “won’t stop us.”


Thus it is clear to McGovern that the neocon faction of our ruling class follow this theme in their policies in support of Israel. This theme essentially promotes Arabs killing Arabs as long as possible to protect not only the security of Israel, but I think its hegemony and expansion in the Middle East.
...they [Israel’s leaders (and their neocon allies)] look on deeper U.S. involvement – overt or covert – as likely to ensure that there is no early resolution of the conflict there. The longer Sunni and Shia are killing each other, not only in Syria but also across the region as a whole, the safer Tel Aviv’s leaders calculate Israel is.
Since the founding of Israel (through terrorism) events have been consistent with the thesis that Israel and its allies are looking for ascendancy as argued in 1968 by John Mitchell Henshaw. They are, and have been, carrying out this policy by promoting Arab on Arab terrorism.