Wall Street
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A bailout of the people by the people?
Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it. Together we can liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal. Debt resistance is just the beginning. Join us as we imagine and create a new… Continue reading
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Out of the bunkers, into the streets
For those of you who contributed last week to The Yes Men are Revolting Kickstarter campaign—thank you! You were a beacon of hope in an otherwise weird, rough week. Superstorm Sandy knocked out our power, locked us out of our offices in lower Manhattan, and reduced us to hauling water up 19 floors to Andy’s… Continue reading
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Presidential Elections: Powerful “Special Interest Groups” Won Again By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
As readers know, I don’t think that either candidate is a good choice or that either offers a choice. Washington is controlled by powerful interest groups, not by elections. What the two parties fight over is not alternative political visions and different legislative agendas, but which party gets to be the whore for Wall Street,… 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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Video: Greek Parliament Approves Contentious Law to Expand Privatization
Dimitri Lascaris: New budget makes it clear Greece will never pay off its debts, real aim of austerity is to break unions and privatize public assets Continue reading
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Who Will Win the Elections? “The Republicrats” By Julie Lévesque
Republicans and Democrats agree on core issues and only argue on technicalities. Obama, who was portrayed as a peaceful saviour in the last presidential elections, has demonstrated during his four years in office that he is not much different from his predecessor. Continue reading
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Video: "Global Noise" Protests Against Austerity and Debt Spread Worldwide
ON SATURDAY OCTOBER 13TH, DEMONSTRATIONS TOOK PLACE ACROSS THE WORLD TO MARK THE GLOBAL NOISE DAY OF ACTION TARGETING ECONOMIC ELITES ACTIVISTS SAY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR INCREASING DEBT AND AUSTERITY MEASURES. PROTESTS WERE HELD IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, LONDON, ENGLAND AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS MEXICO CITY, MEXICO MADRID, SPAIN AND OTHER CITIES. Continue reading
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When Is A Terrorist No Longer A Terrorist? By Danny Schechter
When the Mujhadeen in Afghanistan were assassinating members of their government and the Russian troops dispatched to support it, they were, in Washington’s view, freedom fighters, even as their enemies branded them terrorists. When they turned against an Afghan government imposed by the United States or revolted against a US invasion, they were once again… Continue reading
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On 9/11 Doubts Were Immediate By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
The TV news anchors compared the disintegration of the towers to controlled demolition. There were numerous reports of explosions throughout the towers from the base or sub-basements to the top. (Once the government put out the story of terrorist attack, references to controlled demolition and explosions disappeared from the print and TV media.) This made… Continue reading
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Reflections As Nelson Mandela Turns 94 July 18th By Danny Schechter
Cape Town, South Africa: Nelson Mandela was released from prison 22 years ago. He has been “free” ever since. At the same time, I sometimes feel as if I became his prisoner—imprisoned by the work I have been doing enthusiastically in service to the struggle he led ever since the mid 1960’s. Continue reading
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Video: Pt2 Is Public Ownership the Solution?
15 July 2012 — The Real News Network Gar Alperovitz: There is nothing new about public ownership of major enterprises in the USA (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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The Obama Defection: Former Supporters Lambaste The President By Danny Schechter
Roberto Unger’s argument boils down to a damning indictment spelling out charges that the President has betrayed the progressive cause and those who militated for his election. The alleged betrayal is all the more painful, Professor Unger says, because it reveals a man who never was what he claimed to be. Continue reading
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South Africa's Political Wars Begin To Resemble Our Own By Danny Schechter
The Mail & Guardian reports political scientist Achille Mbembe saying in a debate in Johannesburg, “after 18 years of relative complacency and self-congratulatory gestures” the ANC was realizing South Africa was an ordinary country and not a miracle. Continue reading
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Beyond Citizens United: Politics Is an Industry, Not Just A Campaign By Danny Schechter
In theory, American elections traditionally get going after Labor Day, but, as we can see by the daily overkill media “coverage,” polls and constant reporting about who has raised what—to the degree that anyone really knows in the age of SuperPacs— that the political horses for the 2012 are off and running. Continue reading
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Not Letting The Facts Get In The Way of A Vicious Attack Against Candidates and Whistle Blowers By Danny Schechter
The parties and their factions live not only in parallel universes but worlds of information that are driven mostly but what they think will work in pandering to their bases and the public. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 16 May 2012: Black Agenda Report – Obama's Gay Gambit / Death By Wall St. / Phantom Issues
16 May 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama’s No-Risk Drive-By On Gay Marriage by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The president’s announcement favoring the right of same sex couples to marry is long overdue and better than nothing. But it doesn’t make him a fearless warrior Continue reading
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IT’S TAX TIME: IS IT TIME TO OCCUPY THE IRS? By Danny Schechter
Back in the day, the government used IRS investigations to threaten political activists and intimidate activists that paid their taxes as opposed to those who became tax resisters to refuse to pay for wars. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 12-17 March 2012: Ugandan Oil, Wall Street Criminality and Al Qaeda in Syria
17 March, 2012 — Global Research GLOBAL RESEARCH’S NEW ONLINE STORE: Request for Readers’ Feedback – 2012-04-15 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 