Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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, February 12, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Chris Matthews Fears Execution Under Bernie Presidency from The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube). (Note: A little humor to sweeten the bad news for you.)

Guest post: The irreversible emissions of a permafrost ‘tipping point’ by Dr Christina Schädel from Carbon Brief.

OK, Doomers! The Climate Generation Has Arrived by Sarah Jaquette Ray from Edge Effects.

IMF and World Bank complicit in ‘austerity as new normal’, despite availability of alternatives from Bretton Woods Project.

Just Some Illustrations I’ve Done Lately by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

Syria imposes the Astana deal by force, as Turkish-Russian tensions rise by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog. (Thank your god for this excellent journalist! We would never understand the Mid-East as well without his reports.)

Scott Ritter explains Syria war WMD lies from the Rick Sanchez Show on RT.

The Survival of the ILWU at Stake! by Jack Heyman from CounterPunch.

This article, while focusing on the latest labor union's fight for survival, only touches on the carefully hidden class war that has been going in the USA since its founding by mostly land speculators and slaveholders like George Washington and their ruling class collaborators like Alexander Hamilton. But you, as a US citizen would know nothing about their history from US schools or coverage by media corporations. They even rewrite history to portray them reverently as "Founding Fathers". (Hamilton was celebrated recently in the Broadway play named "Hamilton".)