OWS protesters interrupt Obama’s speech
The 99 percent approached President Barack Obama this afternoon, surprising the commander in chief with a “mic check” during a speech he was making in New Hampshire. Speaking from Manchester, NH Tuesday to More...
84 Year Dorli Rainey Tells About Pepperspray Attack
An 84-year-old woman in Seattle has quickly become a face of the national Occupy Wall Street movement after she was hit with pepper spray during a march. A night photo of Dorli Rainey with the chemical irritant More...
Labor Must Choose Between Occupy and the Democrats
The Occupy Movement couldn’t have come along at a worse time, from the viewpoint of the Democrats. Election season is just getting started and Occupy has thrown a giant wrench into the political machinery. More...
Occupy Revolution
History tells us that it is nearly impossible to know in real time whether some kind of national, grass roots public protest ends up being the beginning of a true revolution against a ruling government system. More...
OWS Destroyed: Cops clear Zuccotti Park
Occupy Wall Street protesters have clashed with police in Zuccotti Park after being ordered to leave their longtime encampment in New York. At least 70 people have been arrested, with the police said to have used More...
Iceland’s New Bank Disaster
The problem of bank loans gone bad, especially those with government-guarantees such as U.S. student loans and Fannie Mae mortgages, has thrown into question just what should be a “fair value” for these debt More...
UK loads rubber bullets for students
Police in London are preparing for war as students prepare to march on Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has authorized firing rubber bullets on the 10,000 students expected to march with the National More...
Students march in London
Students took to the streets of London en masse on Wednesday to fight funding cuts and a massive hike in tuition fees. At least 20 arrests have been made, though police abstained from using plastic bullets, which More...
The US Police State
Review of Andrew Kolin, State Power and Democracy (2011), New York: St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave Macmillan, 248 pp. Many readers may have thought the U.S. is “like a police state” – - think of the security More...
Fahrenheit 11/11/11
Believe it or not, November 11th was not made a holiday in order to celebrate war, support troops, or cheer the 11th year of occupying Afghanistan. This day was made a holiday in order to celebrate an armistice More...