via alternet.org “Wall Street???s audacity to corrupt knows no bounds and the cooptation of government by the 1 per cent knows no limits. How else to explain $150 million of taxpayer money going to equip a government facility in lower Manhattan wher…
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Got a flurry of emails yesterday after the inimitable Rush Limbaugh lumped me and Dylan Ratigan in with the behind-the-scenes power structure. Apparently Rush got hold of Breitbart???s story about the email list and decided to run with it: Journalis…
As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, the response from the movement???s targets has gradually changed: contemptuous dismissal has been replaced by whining. (A reader of my blog suggests that we start calling our ruling class the ???kv…
Those who persist in demanding to have the Occupy movement’s goals spelled out for them are wilfully missing the point. Related posts: Setting up for #OccupyTO | #OccupyBaySt #OccupyWallStreet #ows How mainstream media is failing Occupy Wall Stree…
Published on Monday, October 10, 2011 by TruthDig.com Why the Elites Are in Trouble by Chris Hedges Ketchup, a petite 22-year-old from Chicago with wavy red hair and glasses with bright red frames, arrived in Zuccotti Park in New York on Sept. 17….
It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America???s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who rel…
Nothing’s highlighted the weaknesses of the corporate media better than their obvious befuddlement with this particular story. The spanking laid on Kevin O’Leary by Chris Hedges last week is a particularly egregious example. In between the condesc…
Smart comment ??? he’s right. Here’s the quote from PolitickerNY (h/t reddit blogger cos): Long Island Republican Congressman Peter King blasted the Occupy Wall Street protesters as anti-American today on a right-wing talk show. ???The fact is these p…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Best part is the way she sidesteps the whole shallow storyline pushed by traditional media outlets, most of which seem completely befuddled because they can’t find “leaders”…