1848+: Last and First Men

Occupy Wall Street Goes Virtual, Targeting Apple through Petitions Triple Pundit In addition, Apple CEO Tim said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that the company is “raising the bar” on factory conditions. “I have spent a lot of time in factories over this lifetime and we are clearly leading in this area,” [...]

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Occupy Wall Street, Vowing Spring Return, Dwindles in NY WNYC Where there were once hundreds of demonstrators and a sea of tents — a roiling mini-city, complete with kitchen and laundry services — the park that birthed Occupy Wall Street is now practically empty. But not quite: as the movement waits out the … See [...]

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Published on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Common Dreams The Arab Spring – Fears and Hopes by Adnan Al-Daini The optimism generated by the Arab spring is now giving way to anxieties about where these changes are taking Arab societies. The idealism of the young in their millions for a dignified life where human rights [...]

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Published on Thursday, February 2, 2012 by Common Dreams Occupy Chicago 2012 – Not 1968: Oakland and Echoes of the 1960s by Ted Morgan This past week billionaire George Soros warned that the world capitalist system faced the potential of massive street violence if not “collapse.” A day or so later, the Adbusters group that [...]

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Occupy Community Gardens Les Kishler, Op-Ed: Occupying community gardens is a metaphor for the work that community gardeners perform. Community gardens are associations of individuals who garden at a common location. The gardeners can exchange ideas and the harvest of their work. Community gardens have an important history and can play an important role in [...]

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Cameras no longer welcome at Occupy Wall Street? Attack highlights conflict msnbc.com By Bob Sullivan The face of Occupy Wall Street for many of those who've never made it to New York City says he's under increasing attack from other protesters, and was assaulted recently during a march. Tim Pool, a mini-celebrity for giving OWS [...]

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Published on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Common Dreams Super PAC Power: The 0.1% Buying Our ElectionsFEC disclosures yesterday show wealthy donors, corporations behind Super PAC money – Common Dreams staff

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Finding Power in Solidarity by NICK ROBINSON The night of January 28th in Oakland left me feeling angry. I felt anger toward police for brutalizing people in the streets, illegally kettling protesters, and collectively punishing the entire march with indiscriminate use of chemical weapons and projectiles. I felt angry about protest organizers and march leaders [...]

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The Emperor Has No Clothes Economics 101 by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Last Friday (January 27) the US Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its advance estimate that in the last quarter of 2011 the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8% in real inflation-adjusted terms, an increase from the annual rate of growth in the [...]

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Occupy Wall Street in DC Washington Post Occupy DC protesters shout slogans from under a tent erected over the statue of Maj. Gen. James McPherson in McPherson Square. The protesters faced a noon deadline on Monday to end their four months of camping or risk arrest. A Occupy DC protester … See all stories on [...]

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