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By Anna Badkhen
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By Lauren B. Davis
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Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich took stock of the current status and future possibilities of Occupy movements around the country on Thursday’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” suggesting that the network of affiliated protest groups ... (more)
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David Shankbone (CC-BY)
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The New York Daily News reports that at least 15 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested after about 300 marched from Zuccotti Park to the front door of Goldman Sachs. Among them was Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges.
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Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films is preparing a multimedia onslaught to expose those 1 percenters who use their monetary and political powers to the disadvantage of others—sometimes millions of others, as in the case of Bank of America ... (more)
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Wikimedia Commons / Department of Defense
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou appeared to be losing his grip on both his country and his job on Thursday, as reports circulated that he had scrapped his surprise call for a nationwide referendum on the bailout plan proposed by eurozone leaders ... (more) Updated
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money? So why isn’t former Citigroup Chairman Robert Rubin breaking a sweat?
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On Wednesday, Occupy Oakland demonstrators were preparing to launch a citywide strike, nodding to a similar moment in Oakland’s history and preparing for pushback from local police and employers of striking workers. Amy Goodman takes a look at the buildup to the strike in this clip from “Democracy Now!”
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Flickr / Vasilis Filis (CC-BY-SA)
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Last week’s summit of European Union leaders to find an emergency solution, or at least a stopgap measure, for the region’s compounding economic crisis initially led to a brief bounce in the markets and a flash of hope. That was squelched by Tuesday with the news that Greek prime minister … (more)
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AP / Bebeto Matthews
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Some 400 Occupy Wall Street protesters got into costume Friday, but the occasion wasn’t an early observance of the beloved pagan-inspired holiday that is Halloween. Rather, the messengers from among OWS ranks paid visits to big bank headquarters in Manhattan to deliver mail from Americans ... (more)
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An emergency economic summit in Europe brought direly needed relief to Greece and neighboring nations, but will it last—and is it enough? Meanwhile, on our side of the planet, a report from Congress showed that the richest 1 percent of Americans more than doubled their share of national income in the last 30 years.
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AP / Noah Berger
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Do the mayors of, say, Oakland, Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles have each other on speed dial this week? That’s kind of what it looked like, with tensions between those city leaders, aided by creative interpretations of public property regulations, and their respective Occupy movements ratcheting up this week. Updated
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AP / Louis Lanzano
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Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff’s got nothing but time as he serves his sentence in a North Carolina prison for defrauding a vast network of clients out of billions of dollars, and he’s apparently not averse to spending some of it sitting for interviews that aren’t likely to help his standing much.
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AP / Daniel Roland
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This week’s European crisis summit in Brussels has produced an agreement in an effort to mitigate what was looking like an inevitable economic catastrophe, judging by the dire situation in Greece and elsewhere in the eurozone. By Thursday, international markets were registering the results.
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AP / Ben Margot
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Tuesday morning’s arrests of Occupy Oakland protesters, along with the recent display of police prowess that Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed visited upon the occupy encampment in his own city, add up to signs of trouble that could threaten the peaceful tone of the movement, at least as The Christian Science Monitor … (more)
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In this clip from Tuesday’s “Democracy Now!” we hear the story of Goldman Sachs’ recent move to back out of a fundraiser for the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union after the financial giant caught wind that the event would pay tribute to the Occupy Wall Street movement. But, as Amy Goodman and investigative reporter … (more)
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guardian.co.uk
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WikiLeaks’ days may be numbered, or at least its function as Web-based whistle-blower may be seriously compromised, if the muckraking site Julian Assange built doesn’t sort out its money issues soon. These issues, Assange was careful to note on Monday, were caused by the deliberate stranglehold ... (more)
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Flickr / respres (CC-BY)
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President Obama is doing an end run around Congress with a new strategy to target one of the most crucial sectors of the U.S. economy, and one clearly in need of serious resuscitation—the mortgage market. This first installment of Obama’s proposed economic rehab program, which he dubbed the “We Can’t Wait” campaign ... (more)
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AP / Isaac Brekken
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By Bill Boyarsky — Almost 20 miles from the Occupy L.A. encampment and 265 miles from the Las Vegas Republican presidential debate, the state employment office in Norwalk, Calif., was a sad, quiet reminder of what the presidential campaign should be about—unemployment that is dooming the prospects of this generation and its children.
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By David Sirota — His Majesty King John Hickenlooper, the sovereign governor of the Kingdom of Colorado, handed down an edict closing the grounds of the Capitol palace to the public and ordering his praetorian guard to arrest the peaceful Occupy Denver protesters assembled at the castle gates.
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While the international media zoomed in on Libya on Thursday, another important story was unfolding in Athens, where two days of strikes and protests failed to sway parliament members from passing a bill of austerity measures the Greek government insisted was necessary to avoid an even more catastrophic economic mess.
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AP / Andrew Burton
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By Robert Scheer — Funny, he doesn’t look like Marie Antoinette. But when former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller asks his readers if they are “bored by the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street,” it displays the arrogance of disoriented royal privilege.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — “Defend Wall Street” is not likely to be a winning campaign slogan in 2012. For Republicans, this is an obvious problem. For President Obama and the Democrats, it’s a golden—if largely undeserved—opportunity.
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By Bhaskar Sunkara — It’s easy to see that apathy among a subset of middle-class youth is turning to politicization, and the natural form of this politicization is protest against the neoliberal state’s slashing of the social benefits that created the modern middle class in the first place.
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Mr. Fish
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By Mr. Fish — I thought about Susan Dey and blisters and being a hippie last Thursday when I found myself driving around outside the Air and Space Museum looking for a place to park. I was in D.C. for the purpose of lending my body and rancor to the Occupy Wall Street protesters gathering in Freedom Plaza for their first day of rabble-rousing.
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Flickr/david_shankbone (CC-BY)
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Taking a cue from the 99 percenters, some conservatives are hoping to make their own play on demographics by redirecting the national discourse about class struggle and revising the cherished American story of meritocracy for these, our troubled times.
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AP / Mary Altaffer
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Occupy Wall Street: 1, Mayor Bloomberg: 0. After the New York City mayor’s sketchy sanitation plan for Zuccotti Park—or, if you will, Liberty Plaza—was postponed on Friday, OWS members were bullish, making it clear on their website that this development constituted a victory ... (more)
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Much has been made—including a lot of noise—about the Occupy Wall Street movement’s supposed lack of a cohesive message or handy list of bullet points to rally around, which even New York Times editors noted is somewhat beside the point. Regardless, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi has come up with five action items for OWS, which ... (more)
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Anonymous via Eddie Colla
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Camping out by Wall Street and peacefully protesting are but two ways of signaling collective displeasure about America’s compromised economic system, but here comes Anonymous with another handy tip for would-be opponents of our nation’s banking behemoths: Let the currency of their realm do the talking.
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AP / Jason DeCrow
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By Robert Scheer — How can anyone possessed of the faintest sense of social justice not thrill to the Occupy Wall Street movement now spreading throughout the country?
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — Why are Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama just now discovering that there is a jobs crisis in this country?
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Have you noticed that one of the Obama administration’s most successful programs is also its most “socialist” initiative?
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By Richard Reeves — Democrats should be building statues of former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, or at least giving away copies of her new book, "A Governor’s Story."
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Sep 20, 2011
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Petar Pismestrovic, Cagle Cartoons, Kleine Zeitung, Austria —
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Hajo de Reijger —
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Office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
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In the past few years, Elizabeth Warren proved herself one of the very few people in government committed to actually doing something about Wall Street greed, and she got kicked to the curb as a result. Now she is hoping to win back Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat from Republican Scott Brown. (more)
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On Monday the president celebrated working people and the contributions of unions to our society and he previewed some of the proposals in his forthcoming jobs plan at an AFL-CIO-sponsored speech in a GM parking lot.
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White House / Samantha Appleton
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The president will officially unveil his plan to create jobs and rescue the economy at a joint session of Congress on Thursday, but he offered a sneak peek Monday to union workers in Detroit. It comes down to bridges and taxes. (more)
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Bush White House / Paul Morse
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By Eugene Robinson — Thank you, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, for emerging from your secure, undisclosed locations to remind us how we got into this mess: It didn’t happen by accident.
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Flickr / Wonderlane (CC-BY)
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Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway negotiated a $5 billion investment with Bank of America on Thursday, a vote of confidence in the recently ailing institution. (more) [Earlier Thursday, Truthdig erroneously reported the figure as $5 million.]
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Flickr / stevendamron
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Essayist, Yale English professor and TomDispatch contributor David Bromwich takes a careful accounting of the “sacked” and “saved” members of the Obama administration in an attempt to reveal the similarities between his presidency and George W. Bush’s. (more)
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how will i ever (CC-BY-SA)
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Britain’s riots were not political, we are assured, and looting is simply un-British, but “Shock Doctrine” author Naomi Klein takes a different view: From Iraq to Argentina, when corrupt elites pass the bill to the struggling masses, civil unrest is to be expected.
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Jacob Bøtter (CC-BY)
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By Robert Scheer — The whole thing is nuts. The economy is a shambles, saved from a free fall only by the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented promise of free money for banks for at least two years.
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Tony the Misfit (CC-BY)
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By David Sirota — Barack Obama is a lot of things—eloquent, dissembling, conniving, intelligent and above all, calm. But one thing he is not is weak.
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AP / Carolyn Kaster
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By Robert Scheer — Republican hypocrites are out to settle ideological scores that have nothing to do with the debt they themselves ran up.
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Martin Sutovec, Slovakia —
Posted on Jul 24, 2011
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — Obama’s gutless decision to abandon Elizabeth Warren comes after the president populated his administration with the very people who created the financial meltdown.
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Frederick Deligne, Cagle Cartoons, Nice-Matin, France —
Posted on Jul 19, 2011
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — These threatened programs are not government handouts to a privileged class, like defense contractors and bailed-out bankers, who do feel eminently entitled to pig out at the federal trough.
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on Jul 10, 2011
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
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