by Solomon Comissiong  The US “Occupy Movement” continues to raise Americans consciousness regarding a number of critical social issues and inequities, including the vast wealth disparity within the so-called “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave”.  The US version of the movement began on Wall Street and has now spread throughout numerous cities and towns, gaining momentum with each new participant. Many ...

  Jeff Barnard of the Associated Press published in the Boston Globe today, December 8th, the following which should be of concern to all of us who do alternative media and especially those of us who do investigative journalistic work.  Deep pockets can bankrupt an average person looking to do investigative journalism.  This ruling by a Federal court regarding defamation and the status of journlaists i ...

  For those that didn’t know it, the Washington Post’s blood bank, Kaplan, does not just run a for-profit diploma mill they call a privatized ‘university’; they also have three other vampire subsidiaries that fall under ‘education’ and that comprise their Kaplan educational business.  Educational sales by Kaplan make up 62% of the Post revenues.  Newspaper publishing, television broadcasting and other ...

By Saul Landau An advanced university degree can’t help you find a position –for a year or more. Yet, stocks, bonds, and derivative dealers, and those peddling hedge (evade, prevaricate, get around, beat around the bush) funds amass money (including tax dollars). Pious government officials and TV pundits assure you: the Wall Street establishment maintains the stability of Main Street. You watch Main Street ...

The Max Keiser report, which one can see on RT Television weekly, has brought quite a bit of viewers to the world of economic analysis and discussion.  In a recent twist, RGB Anarchy has made a spaghetti western of sorts featuring Max Keiser and Jamie Dimon, the current CEO of criminal crime syndicate JP Morgan.  In this Jacobin YouTube Keiser is pitted against the grimy Dimon as he digs for silver to cover ...

http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/oakland-general-strike.htm Dear Bay Area Friends, As most of you probably know, the police raid and destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampments last Tuesday, followed by the notorious police violence against protesters later the same day, provoked such an immense expression of outrage from thousands of people in the Bay Area and around the world that the Oakland city gover ...

Show the commercial banks the potential power of the 99% ACTION: Massive Withdrawal HOW: All 99%ers withdraw $100 (or what they can spare) from the bank. WHEN: Monday October 31st Halloween at 12pm noon EST VISION: A scary Halloween for corporate America: Demonstrating to the  commercial banks the potential power of the people James Horn ontogenyx@gmail.com ...

Nora Durst finds herself at the intersection of something routinely normal for middle-class Americans living in the comfort of suburbia and distinctly otherworldly at the same time in Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers, his newest novel venturing into speculative/ dystopian fiction. Visiting the mall with her sister during the Christmas season, Nora confronts the sudden disappearance of her entire family several ...

As University President Wallace Loh sees it, his administration's recent release of a report investigating alleged workplace abuse should be enough to extinguish the complaints of disgruntled employees that have emerged across the campus the last several months. But to a bevy of others — employees and their representative organizations, student groups and this editorial board — Loh's acceptance and implemen ...

Michigan: Operation Doomsday   http://www.a2politico.com/?p=10016 by P.D. Lesko In July, all of Michigan’s Republican Senators voted to put a 48-month time limit on public assistance. The same Bill passed the Michigan House on August 24, 2011. If Governor Rick Snyder signs it, on October 1, 2011, an estimated 12,600 families—including 25,000-30,000 children—will lose access to public assistance. Republican ...