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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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Video: Senate Bill Threatens Currency War with China
Michael Hudson: Senate proposal based on junk economics and is illegal under international law 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 $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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The Iranian “Plot” by ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Even by the forgiving standards of American credulity, the supposed Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the US is spectacularly ludicrous. Why would Iran want to kill the Saudi envoy – the mild-mannered functionary, Adel al-Jubeir? 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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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
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Video: Mainstream media vs. Occupy Wall Street – the battle — RT
While the mainstream media criticizes the demonstrators for being anarchist hippies, corporate media outlets don’t actually go into the crowd that much to listen to what the frustrated people have to say. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street (and elsewhere) Newslinks 14-15 October 2011
15 October 2011 — williambowles.info 15 October 2011 Occupy Australia takes off — thousands in Melbourne and around the countryAt 11.30am on October 15, about 750 people converged on City Square in Swanston Street in Melboune’s CBD as part of the global Occupy Together movement. It is a movement inspired by the Occupy Wall Street… Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 10-11 October 2011
11 October 2011 — williambowles.info 11 October 2011 Student march backs Occupy BostonWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 12:55On Monday afternoon, several thousand students from the Boston area came out to back the Occupy Boston movement. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 8-9 October 2011
9 October 2011 — williambowles.info 9 October 2011 Is it Revolution 2.0? Green Left Weekly issue #782 Today at 10:28 Sun, 09/10/2011 By Chris Atkinson There’s no doubt that the explosion of social media, mobile technology and online-organising capabilities have dramatically altered the battle terrain of class struggles today in ways good, bad and ugly. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 7-8 October 2011
8 October 2011 — williambowles.info 8 October 2011 Occupy Wall Street and the Democratic Party World Socialist Web Site Today at 10:43 As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its fourth week, the movement confronts increasingly sharp political pressures and choices that center on what its relationship will be to the Democratic Party. Continue reading
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Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group
This is not an official statement from the #OWS 99% Movement. As a decentralized leaderless movement, in our opinion, there is no one group, organization, website or individual who can speak for the movement as a whole. We, a working group of people currently occupying Liberty Park and many other locations throughout the US, are… Continue reading
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Arabian Sights… (Re)occupy America
A roundup of occupations. Continue reading
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Video: Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.) By Alex Mallis and Lily Henderson
Alexander Ramírez-Mallis and Lily Henderson are filmmakers based in Brooklyn, New York Continue reading
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Video: Occupy Wall St. to a Bank in the Public Interest By MIchael Hudson
Michael Hudson: A public option in banking will be a structural answer to the power of finance Continue reading