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

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Revenge Is Mine Saith Washington

Click here to access article by Paul Craig Roberts from his blog. 
For eight years Julian Assange’s life has been lived in a Kafka Police State. He has been incarcerated first under British house arrest and then in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, despite the absence of any charges filed against him.

Meanwhile, the entirety of the Western world, with the exception of former Educadoran President Rafael Correa and a UN agency that examined the case and ruled Assange was being illegally detained by the UK government’s refusal to honor his grant of political asylum, has turned its back to the injustice.
I think that Roberts is correct with his statement that the "entirety of the Western world ... has turned its back to the injustice". It appears that capitalist ideologists are correct to argue that humans are basically selfish and look only after their own interests and comfort. Only a few people like Roberts--and he has served the ruling capitalist class--have some faint notion of morality left in them.

The British people are ultimately responsible for the fate of Julian Assange who struggled so heroically to bring the truth to ordinary people of the world about the crimes of their masters. Because he is imprisoned in London, it is clear to me that only concerned British citizens can free him.  Recently I surfed all the left-wing British websites/blogs I could find on the web, and found none that dealt with his desperate situation.