Capitalism
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 20-21 October 2011
21 October 2011 — williambowles.info 21 October 2011 Wall Street and Student Debt Foregiveness GlobalResearch.ca Today at 11:21 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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Class action: OWS first salvo in US class war? — RT
A class war once seemed impossible in a country where being wealthy is part of the national dream. But as thousands march on Wall Street and in other parts of America, digging in with anti-corporate protests, many ask whether US is facing one. Continue reading
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Gerald Celente: 'Revolutions on Wall Street' — RT
With Americans displaying anger with the country in alarming numbers — and protests a part of the Occupy Wall Street movement only getting bigger — are corporations really to blame for the country’s current economic condition? Continue reading
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Have Corporate Media Warmed to Occupy Wall Street?
Media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests started out exactly as one might expect. There was little coverage at first (FAIR Action Alert, 9/23/11), and as it expanded, much of it consisted of snide dismissals of demonstrators’ ignorance, hygiene and so on. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 19-20 October 2011
20 October 2011 — williambowles.info 20 October 2011 I could get used to winning Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 21:44 Occupy Wall Street is proving that solidarity is a powerful thing–even Mayor Michael Bloomberg is being forced to face it. Continue reading
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Insurrection and Invisible Powers By Gaither Stewart
Italy, like Spain, is a peninsula, but she might as well be an island given the barriers separating her from the rest of the European mass and the Mediterranean cradle itself. This, and her long history, broken by frequent invasions from diverse cultures, has fostered the coalescing of an extraordinary idiosyncrasy rich in mysteries and… Continue reading
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Britain, France , US: ‘And the winner is …’ By Eric Walberg
The economic and social experiments in the past three decades by British governments from left to right have left the plucky Brits reeling, as this summer’s unprecedented bread and ipod riots showed all too conclusively. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 18-19 October 2011
19 October 2011 — williambowles.info 19 October 2011 Occupy Wall Street protesters raise nearly $500,000 Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 07:55 Continue reading
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Video: Cornel West at Freedom Plaza – Washington DC on Corporate Greed & the Military Industrial Complex
17 October 2011 — The Real News Network Continue reading
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Occupy Wall St. Turns Global
NYC Occupy movement enters second month and gains momentum Continue reading
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#OWS, Times Square, and the Global Labor Movement By Mark Nowak
Trade unionists I’ve spoken with around the world have related, over and again, how participating in the occupy movements have transformed their opinions. Continue reading
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America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases: Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time By Nick Turse
DRONES – THEY INCREASINGLY DOT THE PLANET. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where ‘pilots’ work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of multiple computer screens, and a… Continue reading
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Hundreds of Worldwide Occupy Protests Occupy One Inch of Front Page By Peter Hart
In case you’re having trouble finding it, it’s in the lower right-hand corner: a blurb approximately one column inch long, directing people to page A20 to find news about protests in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street in ‘more than 900 cities in Europe, Africa and Asia.’ Continue reading
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Global Research: Occupy Wall Street, Selected Articles 1-16 October 2011
17 October 2011 — Global Research Statement of Solidarity, Occupy Wall Street, Zucotti Park – by NYC General Assembly, Occupy Wall Street – 2011-10-16 Continue reading
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The march of the neoliberals By Stuart Hall
We are living through an extraordinary political situation: the end of the debt-fuelled boom, the banking crisis of 2007-10, the defeat of New Labour and the rise to power of a Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition. What sort of crisis is this? Is it a serious wobble in the trickle-down, win-win, end-of-boom-and-bust economic model that has dominated… Continue reading
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The $600 Trillion Time Bomb That's Set to Explode By Keith Fitz-Gerald
The world’s gross domestic product (GDP) is only about $65 trillion, or roughly 10.83% of the worldwide value of the global derivatives market, according to The Economist. So there is literally not enough money on the planet to backstop the banks trading these things if they run into trouble. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Friday 10.14.11
14 October 2011 — The Wild Wild Left – Front Page: Occupy Wall Street Friday 10.14.11 Global Revolution October 15th find your square & OCCUPY! A lot more here… as well as back editions, links and so forth. Continue reading
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Video: "I am not moving": Confronting America's Hypocrisy By grtv
Brilliant short film shows the hypocrisy of Obama and Clinton’s words about the Arab uprisings in contrast to how the American government responds to peaceful protesters at home. Compares the words on freedom and democracy relating to Syria, Egypt, Libya, Iran, and contrasts with treatment by NYPD and Boston police. Continue reading
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The Occupied Wall Street Journal – news from the revolution — RT
As some mainstream media networks continue bashing the Occupy Wall Street protests, the movement publishes its own newspaper at a secret location. RT takes a sneak peek into what the Journal is all about. Continue reading