dictatorship
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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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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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Dissent and the Spread of Information in Egypt
In a dictatorship, independent journalism by default becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Captive Nation – Egypt And The West
What an extraordinary spectacle it is – a dictatorship behaving as though an entire people were its personal property. Henchmen aside, the people have spoken, almost as one, and their demands are very clear. The blunt government response, in effect: We react as we want. If we don’t want to, we don’t have to. Why?… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 