Next time you see some NYPD thug beating on Occupy Wall Street protesters, remember Stephen Anderson.If you don’t think this is happening in your local burgh, think again. With Harper’s new ‘tough on pot’ laws on the horizon, expect much more of these …
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Chantal Hebert wonders whether the Libs have reached the point of no return, while Stephen Maher also points out that the NDP is in a historically strong position across Canada. – Donald Lenihan muses about wha…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Gerald Caplan Writes on The Occupy Wall Street Movement
In an online article entitled This is what democracy looks like: Occupying Wall Street and Bay Street, Gerald Caplan and Amanda Gryzyb discuss why the occupation movement is a healthy expression of the people, and address some of the inequities that wi…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Chris Hedges vs Kevin O’Leary
A debate with Kevin O’Leary and Chris Hedges exposes the depth of hypocrisy that O’Leary exudes.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Voter Apathy: When Complacency is Collaboration
(click pic to enlarge)Well I must admit that on a gloriously warm Indian Summer long weekend, it was easy to forget that I’m living in Stephen Harper’s monstrous Canada.Easy to imagine that I was living in some paradise, where …
Continue reading“We Are The 53%”
For every action, there’s an equal reaction — within + or -3%. I suppose that would be an apt characterization of “We Are The 53%”, a Tumblr site started by a conservative blogger as a counterbalance to Occupation Wall Street’s “We Are The 99%“. “We Are The 99%” tells individual stories of Wall Street protest […]
Goldman’s Blankfein bails on college address
Oh, those damn *cough/eyeroll/puke* scheduling conflicts: The students of Barnard College were expecting to hear from Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, as part of a lecture series titled “Power Talks.” But over the weekend, Mr. Blankfein informed the college that he was canceling his appearance, originally planned for Wednesday night, because […]
350 or bust: “Fox News Lies” Chants Shut Down Geraldo Rivera On Wall Street
Beautiful! Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera attempted to report from the Occupy Wall Street protests in Lower Manhattan on the weekend, but was forced to abort the broadcast after a throng of demonstrators led a rally of anti-Fox jeers. The incid…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On concealed agendas
Just because the Cons have no credibility in decrying popular protest as a means of political change doesn’t mean they won’t do their best to undermine activism now that they have full control over the levers of power. And they’re going out of their wa…
Continue reading350 or bust: Chris Hedges: At This Moment In History, Either You Are A Rebel Or A Slave
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and author, had this to say about the “Occupy Wall Street” movement last week: “The only word that these corporations know is ‘more’…There is no way within the A…
Continue reading350 or bust: McKibbon: The Sky Does Not Belong To Exxon
Bill McKibbon addressed the crowd gathered in Washington Square this past Saturday as part of “Occupy Washington”. Here is the text of his speech, thanks to the crew over at It’s Getting Hot in Here: Today in the New York Times there …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Panic of the Plutocrats
That’s the title of an excellent article by the New York Times’ Paul Krugman as he writes about the hysteria being elicited in the power elite over the implications of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. From Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, descr…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Murray Dobbin comments on the role that the Occupy protest movement can play in countering corporate power that’s faced far too little opposition for far too long:Why now? Perhaps it is the international dime…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leading by example
David Atkins points out how the Tea Party (however contrived and astroturfed) may have contributed to the rise of the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement by legitimizing protest as a means of political change. And it’s worth highlighting that Canada…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Chris Hedges From The Occupy D.C. Protest
In a very informative interview from Washington, Chris Hedges incisively and very articulately holds forth on the implication of the protests, the difference between the Occupy Movement and the Tea Party, and how Obama is no different from preceding Am…
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
We can create a world as yet unimagined, a world undreamed, yet dimly felt. We are like the corn. Mysteriously hidden within each of us are the seeds that can germinate into a new society, a new planet. Like the corn, we have hidden deep within our liv…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Armine Yalnizyan points out what a “Buffett tax” could do for Canada:Put Larry and his 99 fellow CEOs together, and they could put almost a 10% down payment on a national program to bring dental care to school k…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Interview Fox News Refused To Air
I have to say that my life has been immeasurably enriched since becoming a regular visitor to truthdig.org. In addition to providing important perspectives on issues that are either largely ignored or heavily filtered by the mainstream media, the site …
Continue reading350 or bust: “Occupy Wall Street” Gathers Steam
Three weeks in, the anti-corporate, pro-democracy “Occupy Wall Street” protests show no signs of losing momentum. Quite the opposite, in fact.The Occupy Wall Street website states: We will be in a thousand cities in this country by the en…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Republican Eric Cantor Concerned About Growing Mobs On Wall Street
In a shameless but hardly surprising display of partisan hypocrisy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) referred to the Occupy Wall Street protests as “growing mobs.”Why is this hypocritical? Well it has something to do with his enthusiastic s…
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