Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Writing The New Rules For The 21st Century

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

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Writing The New Rules For The 21st Century – In Secret?

Click here to access article by Dave Johnson from Campaign for America's Future.

In this strongly sarcastic, but well-deserved, attack on NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman who seems to be the mouthpiece for the Empire's policies of globalization and war, Johnson distills the basic effects of TPP, and by extension, other neoliberal trade policies: an attack on the American economy and democracy (the little that exists) for the benefit of international corporations.