The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Beyond Elections: People Power By MARK BITTMAN New York Times, 3 January 2012 The presidential election may be grabbing headlines, but the true rallying cry for 2012 is to struggle and organize around those issues that a president might take seriously, to stake out positions that would benefit what used to be called the …
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There is strong undercurrent of “get out of the banks now.” Here are a couple of messages floating around, together with the observation to Occupy seems intent on creating an Occupy credit union and global lending network. How about reviving postal banking? It’s been successful here and in Europe, and it could help save our …
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A Christmas Message From America’s Rich Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone, 22 December 2011 It seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak out. True, they’re doing it from behind the ropeline, in front of friendly crowds at industry conferences and country clubs, meaning they don’t have to look the rest …
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Compassion Is Our New Currency : Notes on 2011’s Preoccupied Hearts and Minds Rebecca Solnit TomDispatch.com, December 22, 2011. Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed — and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! This moment is so extraordinary that it …
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Why is the NYPD After Me? Young, Black, and Frisked NICHOLAS K. PEART New York Times, December 17, 2011 EXTRACT: For young people in my neighborhood, getting stopped and frisked is a rite of passage. We expect the police to jump us at any moment. We know the rules: don’t run and don’t try to …
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What Does The Bonus Army Tell Us About Occupy Wall Street? By Brent Cox The AWL, October 25, 2011 They called themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force, or the Bonus Army or Bonus Marchers for short, and in 1932 they set-up semi-permanent encampments in Washington D.C. Nearly 80 years later, people are occupying Wall Street, and …
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The Defining Issue: Not Government’s Size, But Who It’s For Robert Reich Huffington Post, 19 December 2011 The defining political issue of 2012 won’t be the government’s size. It will be who government is for. Americans have never much liked government. After all, the nation was conceived in a revolution against government. But the surge …
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