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, August 11, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, August 11, 2021

We face a huge sociopolitical problem. Despite the mountain of historical and contemporaneous evidence that governments can and do intentionally harm us, it seems we are collectively incapable of grasping the reality of democide.
  • Settlement Lets Pharma Crooks Off Hook For Opioid Epidemic featuring Anders Lee from the channel of Redacted Tonight via YouTube (5:28m) reporting and commenting (sarcastically) on the final settlement involving the owners of a major pharmaceutical corporation regarding the selling and promoting of their product OxyContin that has torn families apart. My reaction: I know of one such family.
  • U.S. media serves Washington's imperial ambitions by Danny Haiphong, a US writer and journalist, from CGTN (China's mainstream news outlet). My reaction: Haiphong has pointed out in his article that the government is now so wedded with corporations--not only with media corporations--that the government represents a dream of all fascists since Mussolini: major capitalists now have control over every institution that exists in the USA and throughout much of its de-facto US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, and some international agencies like the WHO; and they're using this control to manipulate the "reality" of their citizens in support of their aspirations for global dominance.
On Sunday, Virginia Giuffre, now 38, who lives in Australia with her husband and three children, filed a civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew.

The woman testified that, against her will, she was “trafficked out” by the late financier and convicted pedophile to have sex with the British royal three times in 2001, while she was 17. Giuffre is now seeking “accountability” from her purported abuser and is demanding compensation for physical and mental damage.