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, June 10, 2010

At Fort Bliss, Brain Injury Treatments Can Be as Elusive as Diagnosis

from Pro Publica. Rare articles like this demonstrate that the US government makes a mockery of it propaganda about "supporting our troops" that it uses to quash any dissent of its militaristic foreign policies. Mostly what I get from mainstream media in the US, especially from the "boob tube", is happy families greeting their returning soldiers from the field of combat.