When Occupy Wall Street was evicted from its home base in New York City’s Zuccotti Park on Nov. 15, 2011, by the NYPD in a paramilitary-style operation under cover of the night with a press blackout, the obituaries were being written. The day before, Occupy Oakland, which vied with New York as the leader of the leaderless movement, was evicted for the second and final time. A convergence[Read More...]
David Perez The other day I called my homie, Big Danny, and asked what he thought was gonna make all this COVID madness go away. “A comet hitting the earth, and the human race starting all over again,” he said. “Besides that.” “A meteor.” Danny and I have often spoken about Earth’s history of cosmic …
A movement that formed on Reddit groups to challenge challenge billionaire hedge funders with coordinated buys of failing companies has exposed the un-democratic foundations of US capitalism Max Blumenthal visits a spontaneous protest outside the Securities and Exchange Commission after online investing companies like Robinhood blocked trades in Gamestop to prevent retail investors from challenging hedge funds, and takes a look at Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s staggering conflicts of interest.
For a few months in 2010-2011, the “suffocating certainty” that there is no future was set aside; a decade later, the people on the streets seek a future that is a break from the insufferable present.
Conor LYNCH
Since Donald Trump captured the Republican nomination four years ago, mainstream media across the political spectrum have warned us about the rise of “populism.” The standard narrative goes something like this: those on the political extremes — especially the far-right but also the far-left—are rapidly gaining ground and subverting liberal democracy across the globe, ushering in a new age of authoritarianism.
When masses of students from all over the world mobilize around a utopia, adults become uncomfortable, writes Roberto Savio. By Roberto Savio in Rome Inter Press Service If we ever needed proof of how the political system has become self-referential…Read more →
The United States today qualifies as a plutocracy – on a number of grounds, and it is having a profound impact on the media, education and think tanks–indeed on the whole of society, says Michael Brenner. By Michael Brenner Plutocracy…Read more →
Occupy Wall Street, who are leftist extremists, posted directions on how to stab and cut the heart out of federal ICE immigration officers on their Twitter account that has over 200,000 followers. Twitter is allowing this message to stand while the FBI appears to ignore threats by leftists. [...]
The far-left Occupy Wall Street organization 'doxxed' EPA chief Scott Pruitt and exposed his home address, in addition to encouraging their followers to take a pitchfork to him directly. While Twitter removes conservative voices from its platform for merely hurting people's feelings, the company has no problem with the prolonged hate campaign against Pruitt, and is now allowing an actual death threat to remain published. [...]
Goldman Sachs has outdone itself this time. That’s saying a lot for an investment firm that both helped cause and then exploited a global economic meltdown, increasing its own wealth and power while helping to boot millions of Americans out of their homes.
But now Goldman Sachs is openly saying in financial reports that curing people of terrible diseases is not good for business.
