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

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Who–and What–Are Behind the “Official History” of the Bin Laden Raid?

Click here to access article by Russ Baker from Who, What, Why.

One of America's top investigative journalists (Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi are two others that come to mind) trains his analytic radar-like vision on one more cover story of the Bin Laden raid, a story that was recently run in the prestigious New Yorker magazine.

Beyond all the contradictions, missing information, and misleading statements, one can also discern a lot about a secret government that functions behind the scenes.
When you look closely, nothing seems right about what will surely become the accepted account of the raid that nailed America’s enemy number one. And then things get even weirder…