Tania Branigan, Miriam Elder and Nick Hopkins — Edward Snowden Seeks Asylum in Ecuador, Via Moscow, Amid Diplomatic Storm

The plot thickens as resistance to American power heightens.

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Edward Snowden Seeks Asylum in Ecuador, Via Moscow, Amid Diplomatic Storm
Tania Branigan, Miriam Elder and Nick Hopkins | The Guardian

See also Obama's Transformation from National Security Dove to Hawk Is the Norm: Presidents Are Captive to America's Imperial Power by    Gary Younge | The Guardian and The Subjects of American Empire Are Joining in Solidarity by Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers

We are all subjects of the American Empire.  Whether we live in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East . . .  we are all under the thumb of neo-liberal capitalism that puts concentrated corporate power in control of our lives. For decades, American Empire and wealthy elite have forced privatization of resources in developing countries and austerity measures on public programs. Now, we are also experiencing these same policies in wealthier nations like the US and Europe.

All but the wealthiest are now members of the “Global South.” And, more and more people realize this. People from all over the world recognize that we must stand together in solidarity to challenge the tiny minority that dominates us.  The revolts in Turkey, Brazil, Europe, the Middle East and Asia – as well as in the United States – are all connected.

These struggles share common messages that people are more important than profit, that human rights must be respected and that we want to live in peace with dignity. We see that capitalism is failing and that the people must take control to create the kind of world in which we want to live. The Afghan Peace Volunteers said this clearly in their recent open letter: “accomplishing these actions hinges on us, on climate change citizens, Arab Spring citizens, Occupy citizens and the ‘awakening’ citizens of every country to free ourselves from the unequal dominance of corporate governments with their laws and weapons of self-interest.” ...

And it’s happening. People from around the world are working in solidarity and protesting on behalf of others....

More people understand that the extraction economy must end....

This article is produced by PopularResistance.org in conjunction with AlterNet.  It is based on PopularResistance.org’s weekly newsletter reviewing the activities of the resistance movement. 

The revolt is on. Strauss & Howe and Ravi Batra seem to have called it.

"The extraction economy must end." Now that is a demand. Who said that Occupy doesn't have demands?

Michael Moore explains the sparks that led to global protest

Mohamed Bouazizi was being treated poorly by government officials because all he wanted to do was set up a cart and sell fruit and vegetables on the street. But local police kept harassing him and trying to stop him. He, like most Tunisians, knew how corrupt their government was. But when Wikileaks published cables from the U.S. ambassador in Tunis confirming the corruption -- cables that were published just a week or so before Mohamed set himself on fire -- well, that was it for the Tunisian people, and all hell broke loose.

People across the world devoured the information Bradley Manning revealed, and it was used by movements in Egypt, Spain, and eventually Occupy Wall Street to bolster what we already thought was true. Except here were the goods -- the evidence that was needed to prove it all true. And then a democracy movement spread around the globe so fast and so deep -- and in just a year's time! When anyone asks me, "Who started Occupy Wall Street?" sometimes I say "Goldman Sachs" or "Chase" but mostly I just say, "Bradley Manning." It was his courageous action that was the tipping point -- and it was not surprising when the dictator of Tunisia censored all news of the Wikileaks documents Manning had allegedly supplied. But the internet took Manning's gift and spread it throughout Tunisia, a young man set himself on fire and the Arab Spring that led eventually to Zuccotti Park has a young, gay soldier in the United States Army to thank.

Read it at MichaelMoore.com

A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
By Michael Moore

Moore has been a major figure in the developing revolt for years, and he writes as a person who understands the situation from close up.

BTW, this is right out of the scenario suggested by Ravi Batra in The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos (Palgrave Macmillan 2007). It is the brave that will stand up and lead the fight against the old order dominated by corruption that is leading the world into economic chaos. They will be joined by the young, who, seeing their future being hijacked by selfishness and greed, will demand a new order and fight for its establishment.