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, February 22, 2014

Venezuela: it’s the opposition that’s anti-democratic

Click here to access article by Jerome Roos from Reflections on a Revolution.

Roos attempts to set many naive people on the liberal-left straight about the engineered protests presently occurring in Venezuela. The Empire's agents are not only adept at engineering elections, but they are becoming expert at engineering protests as we've seen in Libya, Egypt (to some extent), Syria, and currently in Ukraine. (See also this, this, and this.)