“We Want Something Different”
Yearning for a New Kind of Society
The ever-sharp Matt Taibbi has written incisively, in sometimes R-rated language, about Goldman Sachs, Citicorp, and other Wall Street investment banks—who can forget his description of Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of ...
NYPD Occupies Zuccotti Park; OWS Evicted in Night Raid
[ see livestreaming via GlobalRevolution ] photographs © Levees Not War 2011
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“What are their [NYPD’s] demands?” asked social historian Patrick Bruner. “They have not articulated any platform. How do they expect to be taken seriously?”
“I suppose they have a right to express ...
In Honor of Veterans
A Salute to the Living and the Dead
Today—the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year—we pause to honor the veterans of wars, especially Americans in uniform since the Great War, World War I, whose ending on November 11, 1918—the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the ...
As “End” of Iraq War Is Announced, U.S. Digs In, Warns Iran
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[ cross-posted @ Daily Kos ]
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“In August [2002] a British official close to the Bush team told Newsweek: ‘Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran.’ ”
—Paul Krugman, “Things to Come,” March 18, 2003
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Where’s That “Mission Accomplished” Feeling?
On Friday, ...
How Occupy Wall Street Is *Not* Like the Tea Party
In a Letter to the Editor of the New York Times, replying to an Oct. 22 front-page article titled “Wall St. Protest Isn’t Like Ours, Tea Party Says,” Oberlin College professor of politics Stephen Crowley points out an essential distinction:
There is another crucial difference between the Tea ...
Iraq War Veteran Injured by Police, in Critical Condition, after Crackdown of Occupy Oakland
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZLyUK0t0vQ
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Police Use Tear Gas, Flash Bang Grenades on Occupy Oakland Protesters
Scott Olsen, a Marine Corps veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq who is now involved in Veterans for Peace, was critically wounded by Oakland police during a crackdown of ...
“Romney is improbable, but his rivals are impossible”
Credit Where Credit Is Due Dept.
It is rare to the point of Almost Never that NYT columnist Ross Douthat writes something not annoying, so when he says something we find intelligent and worth quoting, we want to be nice and share. Likewise, the so-called candidates* for the Republican ...
Occupying the Street Is Not Enough
“Occupy” Dialogue Continues
“[S]imply being in a public place and voicing your opinion in and of itself doesn’t do anything politically. It is the prerequisite, I hope, for people getting together and voting and engaging things. . . . I welcome the [Occupy] Wall Street energy. . . . I agree ...
Ten Years of U.S. War in Afghanistan
“While post-9/11 veterans are more supportive than the general public, just one-third (34%) say that, given the costs and benefits to the U.S., the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have both been worth fighting.”
—Pew Research Center, “War and Sacrifice in the Post-9/11 Era,” Oct. 2011
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Occupying Wall Street with Nurses, Teachers, Transit Workers, and the Rest of America’s Middle Class
“We are the 99% . . . You are the 99%.”
“Banks got bailed out / We got sold out!”
“Whose street? Our street!”
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This Is Not the Fringe.
This Is the Middle Class.
Yesterday into last night we gathered near New York’s City Hall and marched with what looked and felt like at least ...
Conservatives, Please Help Conserve Louisiana’s Coast
“What is a conservative after all but one who conserves, one who is committed to protecting and holding close the things by which we live?”
—Ronald Reagan, 1984
“Louisiana’s voters must find, nominate and elect conservatives (aka, Republicans) who understand there’s no contradiction in ...
Talk of the Social Contract Should Not Make Rightists Reach for Their Guns
Daily Kos reports:
After a video of [Elizabeth] Warren talking about the deficit and the social contract went viral last week (see above), Rush Limbaugh, the Fiscal Times and Rich Lowrey all spent time attacking her. Now, Lowrey has decided to spend another column going after her, and places ...