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Free market fundamentalists turn a blind eye to imperial wars, frenetic speculation, super-sized fraud, out-of-control corruption and cronyism, as well as massive wealth transfers to America's top 1%, creating growing poverty, unemployment, and human misery.
Spreading Social Justice Street Protests
Millions of angry Americans had enough. Inspired by Middle East and European uprisings, they organized nationwide protests in over 1,100 large and small cities and towns.
Heading everywhere with a spirit not seen in decades, they want social inequality ended, growing poverty and unemployment addressed, and lost worker rights restored. They also want fraudulent corporate profits returned to public hands and culpable officials prosecuted.
Whether sustainable energy continues remains to be seen. Influential behind the scenes power brokers aim to co-opt and subvert it. Media scoundrels no longer ignore it, but inadequately explain root issues, let alone solutions.
Even occasional good commentaries omit what should be said. On October 8, a New York Times editorial headlined, "Protesters Against Wall Street," saying:
<blockquote>"....(I)ncome inequality is grinding down that middle class, increasing the ranks of the poor, and threatening to create a permanent underclass of able, willing but jobless people. On one level, the protesters, most of them young, are giving voice to a generation of lost opportunity."</blockquote>
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