John Steiner: Charles EisenStein & Greek Barter

Duncan Campbell Dialog with Charles Eisenstein Host: Duncan Campbell Occupy Wall Street Protest – An American Spring in the Fall, a 21st Century Revolution? Occupy Wall Street describes itself as a “Leaderless Resistance Movement”. It defines itself as “anti-greed”. It is reminiscent of FDR’s famous dictum:  “We have always known that greed is bad morality; …

Marcus Aurelius: OWS – Crapping on the Flag

This is circulating in retired Special Operations Forces (SOF) email. Source:  AngryWhiteDude EXTRACT: What a stark difference from the Tea Party movement. Patriots holding American flags have orderly events with poignant messages about liberty and freedom and then leave in an orderly fashion. Contrast that with the Occupy Wall Street miscreants! Arrests, rapes, flag burnings, …

Chuck Spinney: Manufacturing Dissent – The Rise of the Tea Party as an Elite Front – Opposite of OWS

Below is an excellent interview with Anthony DiMaggio in Counterpunch.  DiMaggio author of The Rise of the Tea Party, due out in November 2011. He uses the “propaganda model” developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent to document and explain the Tea Party’s organizational dynamics for manufacturing dissent, and he …

Karl Marx, Libertarians, & OWS: End STATE Power RECAP

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 …

Mini-Me: General Strike Enters Current Thinking

“Rush and Crush.” Any questions? Police Violence Sparks General Strike Idea Within ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Occupy Oakland: As injured Iraq vet recovers, occupiers promise to ‘shut the city down’ Union Support for General Strike and Protests Nov. 2 Call for GENERAL STRIKE Nov. 2 – plus Occupy updates Occupy Oakland makes plans for citywide general …