MON, 9/17/2018 – BY THOMAS M. HANNA (Occupy.com) THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON IN THESE TIMES In mid-September, a secret party is scheduled to take place in London. The participants will be hundreds of alumni from the defunct global investment bank Lehman Brothers. The occasion? The 10-year anniversary of the bank’s collapse in the midst… Continue reading
WED, 9/19/2018 – BY ELLEN BROWN (Occupy.com) THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON TRUTHDIG Excluding institutions such as Blackrock and Vanguard, which are composed of multiple investors, the largest single players in global equity markets are now thought to be central banks themselves. An estimated 30 to 40 central banks are invested in the stock market, either… Continue reading
THU, 9/20/2018 – BY BARRY RITHOLTZ (Occupy.com) THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON THE BIG PICTURE Why did nobody go to jail? To many people, this is the single most frustrating post-crisis question. Later this week, I will post the 10 issues people still misunderstand, but it is the lack of criminal prosecutions that… Continue reading
THU, 9/20/2018 – BY STEVE RUSHTON (Occupy.com) This is Part 13 in a series about Radical Municipalism looking at ways people worldwide are organizing in their cities to build power from the bottom up. Read Part 1 (Brazil) Part 2 (Rojava), Part 3 (Chiapas), Part 4 (Warsaw), Part 5 (Bologna), Part 6 (Jackson, Miss.), Part 7 (Athens) and Part 8 (Warsaw & New York), Part 9 (Reykjavík), Part 10 (Rosario, Argentina), Part 11 (Newham,… Continue reading
MON, 9/17/2018 – BY MARNI HALASA (Occupy.com) THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON METRO Monday marks the 7th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a community in the truest sense. Throngs of intelligent and diverse people lived together in Zuccotti Park, in a somewhat utopian,… Continue reading
September 18, 2018 by Common Dreams “I hope you find watching it as moving as I did making it,” said Democrat challenging the California incumbent for the U.S. Senate by Jon Queally, staff writer Announcing the new campaign video on Monday, de León urged voters to check out “the story of how… Continue reading
RT Published on Jan 2, 2013 Only one month into the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations last year, plans were formulated to identify key figures in the movement and execute them with a coordinated assault using sniper rifles, new documents reveal. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/o9olc0 RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air (Submitted by Bob of… Continue reading
September 16, 2018 (fightforthefuture.org) It’s been two weeks since the California legislature passed the strongest net neutrality bill in the country.1 But Governor Jerry Brown still hasn’t signed it into law. And now FCC Chairman Ajit Pai just went on a rant against the bill, calling it the “most egregious”… Continue reading
Posted on September 14, 2018 by Ellen Brown Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could. They can create money at will, and they have declared their “independence” from government. They have become rogue players in… Continue reading
September 14, 2018 by Truthdig (commondreams.org) We are a species in deep, deep trouble by Sonali Kolhatkar Hurricane Florence, as seen from space on Sept. 13. (NASA via YouTube) “Storm of a lifetime” is how the National Weather Service in Wilmington, N.C., described Hurricane Florence as it came lumbering across the Atlantic to hurl… Continue reading
