1848+: Last and First Men

I have always enjoyed the stories about speculative insanity in Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. I was surprised to read the New York Times reporting that nothing has changed in the last century and a half. First, here is a famous snippet from the book: Mackay, Charles. 1852. Extraordinary Popular Delusions [...]

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An interesting piece here < http://tinyurl.com/7qs6lvt > thanks to Moshé Machover. Paul F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By: Yassine Temlali Published Wednesday, 25 January 2012 The working class in the Arab world has accomplished a lot in the course of one year of uprisings. Some of these accomplishments are material, including higher wages and improvements in working conditions. [...]

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**by Baba Aye Introduction Few in Nigeria would have the feeling that 2012 is barely a month old. The past few weeks have been filled with events of historic proportions. First, in response to the unpopular 120% hike in petrol price, the people spontaneously took to the streets across the country in stiff resistance and [...]

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FT article by Occupy London: http://www.marxmail.org/msg99483.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/89d242b0-4687-11e1-89a8-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1kau2fIna If you can’t get behind the firewall, then google the article title: How Hayek helped us to find capitalism’s flawsBest, Jamie.

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Chronicle of a Revolution-in-Progress by AMIRA HOWEIDY 1 January : Egypt wakes to news of the attack on the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve. Twenty Copts are killed as well as the church’s Muslim police guard. More than 100 are injured. No group claims responsibility.

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Generals Still in Charge Tough Days Ahead in Egypt by CARL FINAMORE Cairo The most populated country in the Arab world took the day off on Wednesday, January 25. Tahrir Square was overloaded with people stretching and squeezing into every nook and cranny on adjacent streets, storefront alcoves and building doorways. Still, thousands were simply [...]

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Published on Friday, January 27, 2012 by Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi There is a lot to digest in a recent series of events on the Prosecuting Wall Street front – the two biggest being Barack Obama’s decision to make New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the co-chair of a committee to investigate mortgage and [...]

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Adbusters' New Call: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit

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Friday January 27, 2012 Matt Taibbi: Is Obama's 'Economic Populism' for Real? Dave Zweifel: What Citizens Can Do to Fight Citizens United Michael Parenti: Free-Market Medicine: A Personal Account Dennis Bernstein and Bill Means: Whitewashing History in Arizona

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Invitation to General Assembly at the Museum of Modern ArtPosted 5 hours ago on Jan. 27, 2012, 7:31 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt January 27, 2012 Please join Occupy Museums this evening as we re-assemble inside the Museum of Modern Art. Two weeks have passed since our January 13th action, in which we stood in solidarity [...]

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