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, January 4, 2016

The Year the 'European Dream' Finally Caved In

Click here to access article by Jerome Roos from TeleSur. 

Roos provides much food for thought as he briefly reviews the failure of the much lauded European Union which has turned out to be a neoliberal nightmare. 

So, what lies ahead? That depends upon the people in Europe, on us here in the US, and ordinary people everywhere. Neoliberalism is not only destructive of life in Europe, it is a cancer that is eating away at societies everywhere. Only we, the people, can stop this living nightmare from consuming all our lives.

You might also be interested in comments about the crisis of capitalism by Prof. Wolfgang Streeck whom editors of RoarMag identify as "one of Europe’s foremost economic sociologists". 
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