Hold Fast

Here’s a hint: it isn’t you or me.

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Matt Taibbi on the 2012 elections: Most likely, it’ll be Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, meaning the voters’ choices in the midst of a massive global economic crisis brought on in large part by corruption in the financial services industry will be a private equity parasite who has been a lifelong champion of the Gordon [...]

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Obviously it’s been light posting of late. If you’re wondering what I’m up to, check out OccupyOurHomes.org.

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Metaphor fail: This time it is the Wall Street bankers and not the Occupiers who are getting hit with pepper spray. The spray comes straight from the laser printer in the chambers of a federal judge, Jed Rakoff, in New York. The victory that Rakoff gave to the Occupy Wall Street movement Monday came from [...]

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This summer, Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism opted an interview of social anthropologist David Graeber on the history and evolution of debt in human society. In light of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the expanding debt crisis in Europe, the post is worth revisiting. First, I highly recommend the entire interview, as it is [...]

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I like this version of Reich better than the one who thought NAFTA was a great idea.

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This is from early this past week, but is brutal. Keith Olbermann just utterly destroys Michael Bloomberg for his violent crackdown on Occupy Wall Street.

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I actually agree with this: We need equality under the law. From now on, laws that apply to the private sector must apply to Congress, including whistleblower, conflict-of-interest and insider-trading laws. Trading on nonpublic government information should be illegal both for those who pass on the information and those who trade on it. (This should [...]

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Today is the two month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and there is a national day of action. In New York, the day is broken up into three separate movements at breakfast, lunch and dinner: 7:00am — Shut Down Wall Street We will gather in Liberty Square at 7:00am, before the ring of the Trading [...]

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“Resist austerity, Reclaim the economy, Recreate our democracy.” Nope, no clue what the Occupy Wall Street protesters want. Events are happening nationally.

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