Gordon Cook: On the State of Economics – An Exchange Dedicated to #OWS and Society Achieving a Broader Understanding

Here is the final paragraph from an essay by John Kay titled The Map is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics The preposterous claim that deviations from market efficiency were not only irrelevant to the recent crisis but could never be relevant is the product of an environment in which deduction …

John Robb: Differences Between Tea Party & OWS

There are two major differences between the Tea Party and OWS: 1) The Tea Party is affiliated with the Republican party, and not replicated elsewhere in the world. 2) OWS rejects both parties and all forms of institutionalized corruption, and has been replicated all over the world.

Paul Fernhout: G. William Domhoff on Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence

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 …

Robert Steele: #OWS Non-Violence versus Violence

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, …