Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Ukrainian Crisis Was Always About Containing Russia

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

Friday, May 2, 2014

Ukrainian Crisis Was Always About Containing Russia

Click here to access article by Tony Cartalucci from Land Destroyer Report.

Cartalucci provides us with another excellent contribution, and an antidote to corporate manufactured propaganda, that helps us to understand what really has happened in Ukraine and the Empire's ongoing project to absorb or isolate Russia.

...despite the best efforts of the West's media and politicians to claim the Nazi militants they used to overrun Kiev are creations of Russian propaganda, the truth exists in plain sight. The inability of the West to check Russia's counterstrokes in Crimea and eastern Ukraine is precisely due to the fact that neither the people of the East nor the West believe what Washington, London, or Brussels are saying.