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, February 21, 2019

Europe pays the price of a US decision: where will European ISIS go?

Click here to access article by Kuwaiti-born independent journalist Elijah Magnier from his blog.

Another independent journalist discloses another dirty and very open secret of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Anyone who refuses to believe the fictional realities as presented by the Empire's corporate media already knows this dirty secret because there have been hundreds of reports from independent sources to confirm it. Yes, the Empire and its allies (Saudi Arabia and its satellites) have emptied their prisons of deviants, trained them to become terrorists, outfitted them with weapons and brand-spanking new Toyota trucks, and launched them into Syria to destabilize the government. Now that ISIS, the Empire's terrorist mercenary army, has been defeated, almost nobody wants them. This poses a quandary for most members of the Empire and their allies. The Empire also used Kurds for this purpose and now they are abandoning them. There are no crimes that our capitalist masters will find unacceptable if it serves their interests of power and profits.