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

Thursday, October 26, 2017

The Crooks, the Clowns and the Nazis

Click here to access article by "The Saker" from The Unz Review.

For those of you who want to catch up on all things political in the Ukraine, I think The Saker's views are probably the most informed that one can find on the World Wide Web.
Have you heard what the latest big news out of the Ukraine is? No? There is a mini-Maidan under way and Ukrainian nationalists seem to hope that Poroshenko will be kicked out before the end of the week. You did not know? Well, that is the real big news, the fact that you did not hear about this.
In our present era of fake news and censorship, you can't expect to hear news about Ukraine's political deterioration on CNN or read about it in the Washington Post.