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

Sunday, July 13, 2014

This Chart Truly Depicts What’s Wrong With the ‘Recovery’ in America

Click here to access article by Wolf Richter from Wolf Street.

Richter provides some telling details behind Wall Street's "recovery". (Hint) There is a growing bifurcation of US society between the rich and the poor, between the haves and have-nots, and the latter are going into debt to spend on the rising cost of necessities like food and fuel.