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Brookfield Deploys Private Security Squadron to Liberty Plaza Park
There is a new group of people occupying Liberty Plaza Park. Clad in dark clothes with glowing yellow vests, a group of husky security guards, all of them white …
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Police Interventions Fire Up Occupy Protesters; Big Rallies Planned Thursday
Washington - After getting pepper-sprayed Tuesday night in downtown Seattle, 84-year-old Dorli Rainey of the Occupy Seattle movement felt fired up, ready for more protesting. And like …
The Crash of 1929 Was Just a Prelude: Truthout Interviews Whistleblower-Novelist Nomi Prins
Nomi Prins, author of “Black Tuesday.” (Photo: Official Nomi Prins Page) Nomi Prins: Into the crash of 1929, there were six big banks. Their leaders controlled most …
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This Is What America Looks Like
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement in Zuccotti Park in New York, November 15, 2011. After being evicted by the police Tuesday morning, several hundred Occupy Wall Street …
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Occupy: Cathedrals and Ivory Towers
This past weekend in the UK saw people walking about sporting red poppies on their lapels. It was Armistice Day on Friday, November 11, and Sunday, November 13 was …
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What Do You Do When You Can’t Shut It Down?
Demonstrators with Occupy Wall Street react to heavy rain at the encampment in Zuccotti Park, in New York, on October 14, 2011. (Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times) …
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Bank of America: Always Thinking of You
One way you can tell that a bank is in trouble is that it suddenly starts buying full-page ads in newspapers across the country that tell us what great …
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The Long Shadows of Nixon and Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover. (Photo: Wikimedia) J. Edgar Hoover passed away on May 2, 1972. The legendary FBI director lay in state at the Capitol rotunda, the doors …
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Occupy Movement Prepares for Mass Day of Action in Defiance of Crackdowns
(Photo: Timothy Krause / Flickr) Thursday, November 17, marks the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and an international day of nonviolent direct action has been called …
After the Zuccotti Park Raid
It was strange, after all these weeks, to be on the outside looking in at a new set of occupiers who were there because they have the guns and …