IMPORTANT: A new Declaration of Liberty
By James Carroll | Monday, July 9, 2007 | The Boston Globe
Following the American and French Revolutions and the founding of the United Nations in 1948, “…war and the threat of war have only increased the urgency of sublimating state sovereignty to something larger.
But war is only part of the story now. Eighteenth-century ideas of national grandeur, isolated and “free,” contribute, also, to the rolling catastrophe of ecological ruin. Likewise the “free” but amoral market economy that impoverishes the earth’s majority. “Human rights” have been hijacked by money and power.
The years 1776, 1789, and 1948, each with its declaration, marked leaps forward in the human project. Ideals of justice and equality were advanced. Structures of politics were invented. The human heart was inspired to accomplish what had been regarded as impossible. Exactly such a leap is needed today. The time has come for a fourth declaration — for everyone, for real.”…BS
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