Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Is Chavez next? (3 comments)
After Iran, Venezuela?
by MIKE WHITNEY
"The build-up against Venezuela that began during the George W. Bush administration has rapidly accelerated under Obama."
-- Eva Golinger, author of "The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela"
Monday, December 19, 2011 Due Process Guarantee Act 2011 due on Senate floor in January (6 comments)
Senators Dianne Feinstein and Mark Udall are co-sponsoring a bill to remedy the damage to the Bill Of Rights
done by the National Defense Authorization Act 2012
Saturday, December 3, 2011 we are all terrorists now (15 comments)
Since no evidence is required in court(since there is no trial)any of us can be accused of supporting terrorism (for holding contrary opinions,sending a ten dollar check to Oxfam or on any whim),can then be arrested and imprisoned for life without charges, access to an attorney or communication with family. This is Stalin's America, and the prisons are gulags. Whatever this is,it is not a constitutional republic.
Saturday, November 19, 2011 Bloomberg television slanders OWS protest (1 comments)
At 6:00 A.M. Friday morning Bloomberg television featured a report on the OWS protests of November 17, claiming that only 2000 protesters participated and stating emphatically that "Occupy Wall Street has failed to generate enthusiasm from the American population". Both OWS and the NYC police number the crowd at Foley Square at 32,500 people. And national polls put support for the protests at one third of the nation.
Monday, October 17, 2011 Chris Hedges' Interview on CBC with Kevin O'Leary (5 comments)
CBC's Kevin O'Leary interviewed Chris Hedges, calling Hedges a "left-wing nut-bar" and Occupy Wall Street a "big nothing-burger". Mr. Hedges' response did us proud.
Saturday, October 15, 2011 Non-violence is critical to the success of all Occupy movements (6 comments)
Civil disobedience training is critically important, and all global Occupy movements must teach it and hold to it. It is the only means to long-term success and the expansion of the protest.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 The Big Club and Their Big Plan (11 comments)
It is an actual "right-wing conspiracy", a war being waged on multiple fronts with a single aim: to create a feudal society, where Americans live mired in debt and learn to expect the dollar-a-day wages common in Asia, while the power brokers continue to live in the obscene luxury of 17th century monarchs. To quote George Carlin, "It is a big club, and you ain't in it". Can an international resistance movement defeat them?
Sunday, October 2, 2011 Where are the grown-ups? (42 comments)
As a veteran protester who has been waiting for resistance to the corporate state to show up in the next generation, I am frustrated and pissed off. The protest long-planned and scheduled to begin in Freedom Plaza in Washington DC this week, much better organized and hugely more focused, is putting Occupy Wall Street to shame.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Petition to Get All Money Out of Federal Elections (9 comments)
MSNBC's Dylan Rattigan has started a movement to get all money out of Federal elections. Read and sigh his petition
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Petition to break up Goldman Sachs (2 comments)
Petition organized by Occupy Wall Street to break up Goldman Sachs
Sunday, September 18, 2011 Occupy Wall Street Blocked from Wall Street (7 comments)
Occupation of Wall Street begins with a whimper.Articles from Fox News, NY Times and Daily Mail with link to livestream.
Saturday, June 11, 2011 Fukushima - The Elephant in the Room (22 comments)
3 of the 5 reactors have "melted through" and fissioning continues in the molten masses on the reactor floors. This is the world's first "china syndrome" event. Update on status of Fukushima reactors with links to sources for news, testing results and protective measures we can take.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Why Are Our Most Potent Advocates Committing Political Suicide with Their Sexual Behavior? (26 comments)
Why are they doing this to themselves? To us? Americans, and especially we worker bees who have so little representation in government, deserve politicians who can at least subjugate their personal desires to the requirements of the office.
Monday, May 16, 2011 the DSK set-up. IMF Chief Caught in a Honey-Trap (154 comments)
The arrest of IMF Chief and potential French presidential candidate,Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is rife with a fishy smell. Mike Whitney looks into the background and possible motives for a set-up reminiscent of Eliot Spitzer's take-down.
Monday, February 7, 2011 THE FED'S ROLE IN INCITING THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT (3 comments)
MSNBC's Dylan Rattigan and investor Bill Fleckenstein explain how the Fed has inflicted devastating inflation on the world and instigated unrest in four countries.
Saturday, January 29, 2011 Where is America's Breaking Point? (51 comments)
The inequities and civil rights abuses stirring revolution in the Arab world are not so different from our own. Where are the opposition leaders in America?
Sunday, January 16, 2011 THE FED IS STARVING THE WORLD (13 comments)
In response to the accusation that Federal Reserve policies are causing global food price inflation, Chairman Bernanke replied "Yes, but the index of US small cap stocks is up 30% since the 2009 lows". (Translation: the rich are now even richer while everybody else is now hungrier)
Monday, December 27, 2010 FROM MIDDLE CLASS TO SLAVE CLASS - COURTESY OF THE FED, THE WHITE HOUSE, CONGRESS AND THE BANKERS. (47 comments)
Was the 2008 economic meltdown a premeditated financial takeover by the Fed and Wall Street Banks? Probably. Public policy under Bush and Obama has effectively redistributed middle class savings to the wealthiest one percent of the population. We have to wonder if Obama has any interest in sustaining a democratic system.
Monday, December 27, 2010 THE U.S. STOCK MARKET IS RIGGED (13 comments)
Since 2008 U.S. stock and treasury bond prices have had no relationship to the laws of supply and demand. Charles Biderman, CEO of Trimtabs, tells us that the Fed is no longer even trying to hide the fact that it is rigging the markets.
Monday, December 7, 2009 Is Russ Feingold our last hope? (5 comments)
Many Americans see revolution as the only remedy to embedded corruption. The revolution may come, but it will not be the one we always wished for. We urgently need the following: Publicly funded elections, an end to gerrymandering, and the impeachment of any Supreme Court justice who rules that a corporation is a person with all rights and protections guaranteed under the constitution.
Sunday, May 17, 2009 Dear Mr. President: We will fight you (7 comments)
We no longer trust you. We will fight you. Until you live up to your promise, you cannot count on us to support your programs. We, your former supporters, are growing in ranks. You will have to answer to us as well as to the Republican opposition.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Four Steps to Restoring Democracy
President Obama may be slow to act on progressive issues, but there are signs that he is open to persuasion. If we want to see changes more potent than a return to Clinton-era centrism, we will need to create the popular will to support them. Here are four vital but non-partisan issues on which we can organize that Obama would likely support. Collectively they would restore our lost democracy.
