The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Occupy Wall Street is at a delicate point both in the USA and overseas. Despite its clear commitment to non-violence, police violence in the USA–and provocateur violence in Europe–are eroding the moral legitimacy of the Occupy Wall Street. 1) Occupy Wall Street needs to maintain discipline, and both domestically and overseas, when provocateurs begin violence, …
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Occupy Wall Street shifts from protest to policy phase Protesters face the difficult and interesting task of leveraging their influence to achieve concrete policy changes addressing their concerns. By Michael HiltzikLos Angeles Times, October 12, 2011 How do you know when a protest movement is starting to scare the pants off the establishment? One clue …
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Will Occupy Wall Street’s Spark Reshape Our Politics? Katrina vanden Heuvel on October 11, 2011 – 2:21pm ET Editor’s Note: Each week we cross-post an excerpt from Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column at the WashingtonPost.com. Read the full text of Katrina’s column here. When the organizers of Occupy Wall Street first gathered to discuss their plan …
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The Real Story of How Israel Was Created CounterPunch, October 11, 2011 To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 U.N. action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel’s birth is that the U.N. created Israel, that the world was in favor of …
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Panic of the Plutocrats By PAUL KRUGMAN New York Times, October 9, 2011 It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of …
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DailyKos blogger Jesse LaGreca was eloquent and focused on ABC’s This Week this morning. I want to post the conversation about #OccupyWallStreet featuring Jesse, and come back a little later with my own thoughts. To the question, “What is your plan? Are you going to harness this into a political movement?” – a question that …
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Robert Steele to Tom Atlee: From a very smart, very senior observer who is trying to understand how I see what I see. This is a problem. The movement needs some clarity for the externals. —- One of us is wrong on what they want. You have been there and I have not. No matter …
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