From a Young Marxist to the Wall Street Occupation – About Tahrir Square and Capital by Konstantin Kaminskiy

by Konstantin Kaminskiy
Guest Writer
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Questions of Political Economy in Modernity
Oct. 1, 2011

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I am a student lucky enough to not have to work. I study economics at Baruch College. I began my education in economics by reading Marx and every day surrounded by the people who hope to operate the financial machinery of the world, or to not be very far from it. I am lucky to have the time to read, develop my thoughts, and attend various intellectual events. I want to share some of my thoughts about the occupation, some of which will be critical, but in a good way.

Putting the Lie to the Republicans by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
October 3, 2011

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Masters of the repeated lying sound byte, the craven Congressional Republicans are feasting on the health and safety of the American people with gleeful greed while making the corporate and trade association media swoon. “Job-killing regulations,” exudes daily from the mouths of Speak John Boehner, his Wall Street-licking side-kick Eric Cantor and Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell.

ESM, the new European dictator! By Rudo de Ruijter

By Rudo de Ruijter
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Independent researcher
www.courtfool.info
Netherlands
Sept. 29, 2011

courtfoolnet on Sep 22, 2011

The ESM is the new European dictator. Whenever it wants, and as often as it wants, it can simply request the euro countries to pay billions of euros within 7 days. They can ruin any government within a week!!!

Against the Institution: A Warning for #OccupyWallStreet by Andrew Gavin Marshall

by Andrew Gavin Marshall
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http://andrewgavinmarshall.com
October 3, 2011

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While I fully endorse the efforts and actions of the Occupy Wall Street protests, now emerging internationally, there are concerns which need to be addressed and kept in mind as the movement moves forward.

The process through which a potentially powerful movement may be co-opted and controlled is slight and subtle. If Occupy Wall Street hopes to strive for the 99%, it must not submit to the 1%, in any capacity.

On the Bridge and Under Arrest by Billy Wharton

by Billy Wharton
Guest Writer
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Examiner.com
October 3, 2011

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While crime rates in New York City soar the New York Police Department (NYPD) spent a good part of Saturday entrapping and arresting hundreds of protesters who were moving across the Brooklyn Bridge.  In the process, the police created an extremely dangerous situation for about 800 occupiers of the bridge who were effectively trapped – a police net on one side and the Hudson River on the other.  In the long run, the most dangerous thing the police may have created was opportunities for direct solidarity among hundreds of people who previously had only been united by a demand for an end to the rule of the rich.

Noam Chomsky on #OccupyWallStreet Protest, Obama: the Killer, and Israel

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RussiaToday on Sep 29, 2011

Pinning its hopes on the sole support of the US, Israel risks a collapse if it is ever withdrawn – much like apartheid-era South Africa, prominent scholar Professor Noam Chomsky warns. ­He recalls how South Africans felt safe to ignore a UN embargo and corporations pulling out of their country throughout the 1980s, as long as the Reagan administration continued to support them.

“The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 20th Installment: Chapter Nineteen, 2021‑2023: The Restoration of Constitutional Democracy in the United States of America

Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Eighteen can be found here: The 15% Solution

by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
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crossposted on TPJmagazine.us
October 3, 2011

This is the twentieth installment of the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022.  Herein you will find Chapter 19.  This chapter describes what was essentially the Second Civil War in the United States.  Helped massively by an international intervention in support of the Movement for the Restoration of Constitutional Democracy, the Movement was eventually victorious. Under the pseudonym Jonathan Westminster, the book is purportedly published in the year 2048 on the 25th Anniversary of the Restoration of Constitutional Democracy in the Re-United States. It was actually published in 1996 by the Thomas Jefferson Press, located in Port Jefferson, NY.  The copyright is held by the Press.