The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Keep an open mind. This is deeply serious and directly relevant to understanding the convergence of the honest right, the honest left, and OccupyWallStreet. Don DeBar (aligned with Cynthia McKinney) sends: Zinoviev on Lenin and the (1905) Petrograd Soviet What Lenin meant to convey was that the Soviets were not the ordinary …
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In combination, the brutality and obliviousness of the Chicago and Oakland police departments, no doubt egged on by nakedly amoral “leaders” such as Rahm Emmanuel and his Oakland counterpart, have moved portions of the Occupy movement toward contemplating a General Strike. The Occupy Electoral Reform elements will do what they can to keep the General …
Dear Friend, As co-founder and CEO of Ben & Jerry¹s, I saw that big business has gobs of money, and yes, I believe they should pay their fair share. However, the bank accounts of Fortune 500 companies pale in comparison to the US Treasury. In order to defeat poverty and financial instability we need to …
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Below are two eye opening reports/analyses by two of the best counterpunchers in Alexander Cockburn’s and Jeffrey St Clair’s stable of bomb throwers. The subject is Greece: its political/economic crisis and the myths surrounding average Greeks being the cause of its crisis. In the first, Destroying the Livelihoods of Thirteen Million People: The Myth of Greek Profligacy, …
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Mitch Ratcliffe, Jon Lebkowsky 5.0 out of 5 stars SIX STAR #OWS Primer Wow Wow Wow,October 20, 2011 I bought this book in October 2010 because I was getting to know both Mitch Ratcliff and Jon Lebkowsky better, but at first pass through it did not really draw me in. Then OccupyWallStreet happened. I read …
Responding to a media request for comment on Stephen Aftergood’s post, Intelligence Community Anticipates Budget Cuts: “The US secret intelligence community is long overdue for a draconian reduction of its budget from the $80-90 billion a year today that it wastes on contractors producing vaporware, to something closer to the $20 billion a year that …
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Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence by G. William Domhoff< March 2005 One of the distinctive features of left activists is their willingness to go to the streets to win people to their causes and create the political pressures necessary for the social changes they advocate. Studies in social psychology and sociology support this strategy by …
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