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

Monday, November 2, 2015

US Threatens UK over Brexit Vote

Click here to access article by "Don Quijones" from Wolf Street. 

A referendum scheduled in 2017 in Britain to determine whether they stay in the European Union has provoked a warning from the Empire's trade czar, Michael Froman. This ex-patriot British blogger, who lives in Spain most of the time, sees this as a threat to the Empire's hegemony over Europe. 
...the business and political establishment in Brussels, London, and now Washington will stop at nothing to make sure that when the big day comes, the British people, like the Irish before them (second time around, of course), vote the right way.
This article provides an excellent followup to another article recently posted by this author entitled "The CIA Connection: How US Spy Chiefs Co-Financed European Federalists".
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