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

Monday, November 30, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, November 30, 2020

  • WATCH: Covid-19 Deaths – A Look at US Data by from his Off Guardian. For a very short alternate summary of this hour long video, see the statement at 8:05m at this link (you will need to enlarge the statement by clicking of the "Fullscreen" button or some other method.)
  • Zero Point: Our 4th Industrial Revolution Against Their Great Reset by Joaquin Flores from Strategic Culture Foundation. (I've removed this post after a careful reading of it.)
Creating the deal, sabotaging it, and using it as a pretext to pursue military aggression against Iran was always the plan - long before the JCPOA was ever signed. 
With prospects of the plan being revived already unlikely - and more so with this recent escalation - the only path left and just as Brookings in their 2009 paper planned years ago, is toward wider conflict between the US and Iran.
I think that the astute leadership in Iran understands the games the Empire plays.