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Video: Nonviolent Wall St. Protestors Face Mass Arrest
Occupy Wall St. enters third week as movement spreads across US Continue reading
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NYPD Cops entrap protestors to arrest them
2 October 2011 — October2011.org The ‘paper of record’ rewrites the record and shifts the blame Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 30 September – 1 October 2011
1 October 2011 — — williambowles.info Mike Krieger on #OccupyWallStreet: “Rebellion Has Arrived In America” ampedstatus.org TodayEditor’s note: Mike has supported the occupation of Liberty Park since June. He was disappointed it was taking so long for his fellow NYCers to stand up. Now that we have, here’s Mike’s take on it: ‘I will be… Continue reading
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Video: Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution (Occupy Wall Street)
Now in the 12th day of occupation the video gives us a real sense of the strength of feeling, mostly by young people. Continue reading
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Video: Welcome to the Police State: NYC Cops Mace Peaceful Protestors Against Wall Street
I’m beginning to wonder whether the right to assemble is effectively dead in the US. No one who is a wage slave (which is the overwhelming majority of the population) can afford to have an arrest record, even a misdemeanor, in this age of short job tenures and rising use of background checks. Continue reading
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Cynthia McKinney: From Barbarism to Barbarism? Outrage and the Fight for Justice
As committed Libyans valiantly resist the entire NATO arsenal of modern and old-fashioned killfare, a new kind of perverse global plantation is being created. There is a clear and present danger that Africa and Asia will become U.S. killing fields for the next decade or more while the United States, itself, becomes a police state–unless… Continue reading
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Action Alert: What if the Tea Party Occupied Wall Street? Corporate media skip anti-corporate protests
In an action called Occupy Wall Street, thousands of activists took to the streets of Lower Manhattan on September 17. The protests are continuing, with demonstrators camped out on the Financial District’s Liberty Street in support of U.S. democratization and against corporate domination of politics (Adbusters, 9/19/11). But you wouldn’t know much about any of… Continue reading
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The Wall Street Occupation: A Sleep-In Protest in the Shadow of Power By Manny Jalonschi
Surrounded by the headquarters of some of the world’s most powerful financial players, over two thousand protesters converged on Wall Street this Saturday. By the end of the second day, those occupying Liberty Park, formerly known as Zuccotti Park on Broadway and Liberty St., had settled in, partially helped by pizza, hot chocolate and blankets… Continue reading
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The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations By Prof. John Kozy
The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired workers will increase employment, and that… Continue reading
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ADC Calls For Immediate Internal Investigation of FBI Training
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) expresses deep concern over the FBI’s apparent dismissal of repeated calls from civil rights advocates to cease using any offensive, inaccurate, and inflammatory material as part of its counterterrorism training. Despite past reassurances, the FBI has persisted in its practice of vilifying Islam and Muslim-Americans in its training material. Continue reading
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Census: US poverty rate rises… highest for 27 years
The Census Bureau reports the number of Americans in poverty jumped to 15.1 percent in 2010, a 27-year high. About 46.2 million people, or nearly 1 in 6, were in poverty. That’s up from 43.6 million, or 14.3 percent, in 2009. It was the highest level since 1983. Continue reading
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Keiser Report: Bankers & Aliens (E175)
This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, notice that looking back is not an option when all the evidence is destroyed by the SEC and Max tries to explain the gold / Treasury conundrum. In the second half of the show Max talks to Catherine Austin Fitts about exponential fraud and the financial coup… Continue reading
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Obama’s Responsibility to Protect is a License to Kill By Glen Ford
Believing the Libya assault to have been a shining success, the United States will feel confident in launching new aggressions under the insidious rubric of R2P – Responsibility to Protect. The 2004 invasion and of Haiti was the precedent, ‘when the United Nations Secretary General lent his seal of approval to the occupation and endorsed… Continue reading
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We Are The Core Of The Problem By Frank Scott
The USA is at the center of this flailing monster and its people need to take control from the minority only concerned about acquiring more and more wealth at the cost of less and less hope for the majority’s future. Continue reading
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What Should the Verizon Strikers Do? By Dave Stratman
Billionaire Warren Buffett said, “There is a class war in this country, and my class is winning.” These 45,000 Verizon employees, members of the CWA and IBEW, are on the front lines of the class war. They are fighting for us all. Continue reading
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As Economy Crumbles, Media Goes into Ritual Politics Mode: What is Michelle Bachmann wearing? By Danny Schechter
And so it came to pass, as predicted, projected, and warned about, that the economy is about to tank again. No less an authority than Nouriel Roubini, once dismissed as “Dr. Doom” for his accurate predictions of the financial crisis in 2007 and 20088, is shaking his head and pointing his finger again. Continue reading
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A “Humanitarian War” on Syria? Military Escalation. Towards a Broader Middle East-Central Asian War? By Michel Chossudovsky
An attack on Syria would lead to the integration of these separate war theaters, eventually leading towards a broader Middle East-Central Asian war, engulfing an entire region from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continue reading
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A "Humanitarian War" on Syria? Military Escalation. Towards a Broader Middle East-Central Asian War? By Michel Chossudovsky
An attack on Syria would lead to the integration of these separate war theaters, eventually leading towards a broader Middle East-Central Asian war, engulfing an entire region from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continue reading
