Chuck Spinney: How Real is Versailles on the Potomac?

How Real is Versailles on the Potomac? Chuck Spinney, 11 October 2011 Barcelona, Catalunya I began using the phrase Versailles on the Potomac in the late 1990s as a metaphor for the ‘let-them-eat-cake’ politics of the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex or MICC.  The MICC’s  pervasive practices of front loading and political engineering evolved …

Tom Atlee: Paul Krugman Gets It – Protesting Rigged System

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 …

Robert Steele: Trip Report – Occupy Wall Street 6 October 2011 – Second American Revolution is Real

I visited New York City 6-7 October 2011. First I met with Alexa O’Brien, one of the brilliant minds behind U.S. Day of Rage and its focus on Electoral Reform and non-violence as an absolute.  [My memo that Fox news still has not read is here.] Although they are also focused on a Constitutional Convention, …

John Steiner: Declaration of Occupation of NYC + Revolution USA RECAP

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on september 29, 2011As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all …

Robert Steele: Resetting Global Governance & Capitalism

The next 90-180 days may well bring the creative destruction of predatory immoral capitalism and the emergence of resilient moral capitalism. “We are on the verge of an economic collapse which starts, let’s say, in Greece. The financial system remains extremely vulnerable.” (George Soros, 2011) What is collapsing is the predatory Western system of financial …

DefDog: Those ‘Coining the Blood of War’ Should Sacrifice Too

  Those ‘Coining the Blood of War’ Should Sacrifice Too Dallas Darling WN.com, 30 September 2011 In 1919, immediately after World War One but still during the United States’ military occupations of Russia and China, Hiram Johnson, the former reform governor of California who served in the Senate, spoke for many who feared American involvement …