Surviving Capitalism (Not) : The Kiev Putsch: Rebel Workers Take Power in the East

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, May 8, 2014

The Kiev Putsch: Rebel Workers Take Power in the East

Click here to access article by Dr James Petras from Boiling Frogs Post.

The retired sociology professor provides an excellent summary of events in Ukraine, a geopolitical analysis of these events, and the near future consequences likely to appear in that country.

Washington’s strategic objective is to isolate Russia from without, undermine its military capability and erode its economy, in order to strengthen NATO’s political and economic collaborators inside Russia – leading to its further fragmentation and return to the semi-vassal status.