G20 Pittsburgh: Globalization Goes Bankrupt
September 23, 2009 - 1:55pm
G20: Globalization Goes Bankrupt
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15327
"The rage of the disposessed is fracturing the country, dividing it into camps that are unmoored from the political mainstream. Movements are building at the ends of the political spectrum that have lost faith in the mechanisms of democratic change. You can't blame them.
But unless we on the left move quickly, this rage will be captured by a virulent and racist right wing, one that seeks a disturbing proto-fascism.
Every day counts. Every deferral of protest hurts...
Complacency comes at a horrible price.."
"Manufacturing Dissent": the Anti-globalization Movement is Funded by the Corporate Elites The People's Movement has been Hijacked
"Another World is Possible", but it cannot be meaningfully achieved under the present arrangement.
A shake-up of the World Social Forum, of its organizational structure, its funding arrangements and leadership is required.
There can be no meaningful mass movement when dissent is generously funded by those same corporate interests which are the target of the protest movement. In the words of McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation (1966-1979),"Everything the [Ford] Foundation did could be regarded as 'making the World safe for capitalism'".