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

Sunday, May 3, 2015

America Refuses to Face up to Its "Death Squads" in Blue

Click here to access article by Wayne Madsen from Strategic Culture Foundation.
America, like the fascist dictatorships in Latin America during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, is now rife with police "death squads". Uniformed law enforcement officers now act as judges, juries, and executioners in meting out death sentences on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb; New York City; North Charleston, South Carolina; Baltimore; and other cities and towns across the dis-United States. 
What poor African-Americans experience on a daily basis qualifies as a police state very similar to the Israeli treatment of Palestinians.
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