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Subcomandante Bloomberg
Break out the pussyhats and vuvuzelas, folks, because the neoliberal Resistance is back, and this time they’re not playing around. No more impeachments and investigations. It’s time to go mano-a-mano with Trump, and they’ve finally got just the bad hombre to do it. No, not Bernie Sanders, you commies. A battle-hardened Resistance fighter. El Caballo… Continue reading
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Bloomberg’s Hit Job on Venezuela – and Me By Michael Hudson
I just had a disastrous and embarrassing interaction with Bloomberg, and feel that I was ambushed and sandbagged by having my comments taken out of context in a hit piece Bloomberg’s journalists wrote on Venezuela – evidently trying to distort my own views in a two-for-one job. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 28 August, 2013: The "Dreamer" With a Kill List, the "Dreamer" as Zombie, Syria Enters American Hell
28 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Dr. King Was A Man, “The Dreamer” Is A Zombie by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Gary Younge points out that King’s “I Have A Dream” speech wasn’t offered as the penultimate moment of his career till after his death. Those Continue reading
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Bait-and-Switch on Stop-and-Frisk By Jim Naureckas
There’s a lot of misinformation coming from the media on the unconstitutional police strategy known as stop-and-frisk. There’s a powerful urge to believe, it seems, that abusing the Fourth Amendment rights of young men of color somehow makes the rest of us safer. Continue reading
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Boston Marathon Bombing Timeline
The following timeline of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured many more provides a platform to better understand how the event was publicly presented by corporate and alternative news media. The chronological assemblage of coverage is not comprehensive of all reports published on the incident but is an ongoing project… Continue reading
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ICH 27 April 2013: US, UK Diabolic Lie: Syria Used Chemical Arms
27 April 2013 — Information Clearing House Chemical Weapons Claims a ‘Barefaced Lie,’ says Syrian Minister By RT American accusations of chemical weapons use in Syria fall short of UN proof standards, says a UN chemical inspector. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34744.htm Continue reading
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Millions Still Without Power As Temperature Nears Freezing In Eastern US By Bill Van Auken
Fear is growing that Sandy’s death toll, already topping 100, will be augmented by further fatalities, caused not by natural disaster but rather the inability and unwillingness of all levels of government and a social system driven by private profit to mount an adequate relief effort for the millions of people left without electricity, heat,… Continue reading
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'SWIFT Boating' Iran: Economic War a Prelude to Military Attack By Tom Burghardt
Despite, though likely because, Iran is ready to restart negotiations with the so-called P5+1 group (the five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) over its civilian nuclear program, belligerent rhetoric and sharply-worded political attacks from Israel and the United States have escalated. Continue reading
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The Global Stagnation and China
The global economy has entered a dangerous and uncertain phase. Adverse feedback loops between the real economy and the financial sector have become prominent. And unemployment in the advanced economies remains unacceptably high. If we do not act, and act together, we could enter a downward spiral of uncertainty, financial instability, and a collapse in… Continue reading
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Structural Reform: The Case for Public State Banks By Ryan Holeywell
Try to find a bank president that’s beloved by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s not impossible. You’ll just have to travel to North Dakota. Continue reading
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Imperial Military Adventurism: Tensions Rise as U.S. Imposes 'Nuclear Option' on Iran's Economy by Tom Burghardt
Reacting to American threats to crater their economy, Iran’s first vice president Mohammad-Reza Rahimi said last week that the Islamic Republic would retaliate by blocking all oil shipments through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 November 2011: Van Jones Is Not OWS / Black Income Segregation / Brazil Death Squads
23 November 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left Gridlock is a Blessing: To Hell With Obama and His Van Joneses by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As BAR predicted, gridlock – which has finished off the congressional SuperCommittee – was the last, best hope to prevent Barack Continue reading
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FAIR Blog » Crackdown on Journalists at Occupy Wall Street
During the early morning raid on the Occupy Wall Street camp journalists were blocked from covering much of what was happening. Josh Stearns from Free Press has a rundown–as he points out, ‘By dawn, 10 journalists, including reporters from NPR, the Associated Press and the New York Daily News, had been arrested.’ Continue reading
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FAIR Blog » Crackdown on Journalists at Occupy Wall Street
During the early morning raid on the Occupy Wall Street camp journalists were blocked from covering much of what was happening. Josh Stearns from Free Press has a rundown–as he points out, ‘By dawn, 10 journalists, including reporters from NPR, the Associated Press and the New York Daily News, had been arrested.’ Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street then the World Newslinks 16-17 November 2011
17 November 2011 — williambowles.info 17 November 2011Mayors conspired to close Occupy Wall Street encampments World Socialist Web Site Today at 18:14 As cities throughout the United States step up the police crackdown on the Occupy Wall Street movement, evidence has emerged of a conspiracy between city officials—possibly coordinated with federal intelligence agencies—to shut down Continue reading
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Bloomberg Personifies What the Occupation Opposes BY Glen Ford
It was never in the cards for a plutocrat mayor to long tolerate a movement whose essential logic is the dissolution of his class. ‘If the Occupy Wall Street movement has been about anything, it is the absolute necessity to rid the nation – and the world – of the collective tyranny of the Bloombergs,… 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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Action Alert: CNN’s Factcheck Failure on Occupy Wall Street
If CNN is interested in factchecking claims about Wall Street, they might want to start by taking a look at those made by their new host. At the very least, the show should invite the economists and policy experts who could set the record straight. Continue reading
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Action Alert: CNN's Factcheck Failure on Occupy Wall Street
If CNN is interested in factchecking claims about Wall Street, they might want to start by taking a look at those made by their new host. At the very least, the show should invite the economists and policy experts who could set the record straight. Continue reading
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