Surviving Capitalism (Not) : I especially recommend these posts for today: Thursday, October 17, 2019

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 17, 2019

I especially recommend these posts for today: Thursday, October 17, 2019

How Capitalism ‘Solved’ the Nitrogen Crisis (continued) by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.

WSJ, NYT Celebrate ‘Shale Revolution’ for Investor Class, Despite Its Leading to Our Doom by Joshua Cho from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

Counting Down to Civilization’s Collapse + Inequality, Climate Change, and America’s Destabilization by Rainer Shea from the author's weblog Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

Inequality, climate change, and America’s destabilization by Rainer Shea (US independent analyst) from the author's weblog Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist.

How The Win-Win-Win-Win Plan For Syria's Northeast Succeeds by Bernhard (independent analyst from Germany) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (Note: "SNC" refers to the Syrian National Council.)

Jeffrey Epstein Again Disappears From View, but What About Mossad? by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.

Under Fire from Ukraine and Misperceived by the West, The People of the DPR Share Their Stories by Eva Bartlett from Mint Press News.

The fight to overturn the latest corporate coup at Pacifica has only begun by Pete Dolack from his weblog Systemic Disorder. This development is in line with a long list of subversive events to subvert and destroy Pacifica Radio, a listener sponsored radio network. In the 1980s I volunteered at the Berkeley, California radio station that is a founding member and major part of this network, and have posted articles from this source.)