- Searching for Hope in America: An impassioned plea for the American people to wake up!
- Stop the Machine! Create a New World!
4 New Items including:
- The World War on Democracy
- Thank You For Standing Up
- Soros Predicts Growth of Occupy Movement, Applauds it for Changing the Political Debate
- Occupy Wall St & the Future of the 100%
David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest
Milt Priggee
The World War on Democracy, John Pilger, Global Research
- The historic corollary of a perpetual war state, this is not fascism, not yet, but neither is it democracy in any recognisable form, regardless of the placebo politics that will consume the news until November.
- The circumscribed task of journalism on both sides of the Atlantic is to create the pretence of political choice where there is none.
Thank You For Standing Up, Chris Hedges, Truthdig
"Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick-Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on Jersey Shore. The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters."
Soros Predicts Growth of Occupy Movement, Applauds it for Changing the Political Debate, John Arlidge, Newsweek / Kevin Zeese, October2011
- George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War
- 'The situation is about as serious and difficult as I've experienced in my career.'
Occupy Wall St & the Future of the 100%, MN Senator John Marty, Apple Pie Alliance
Now, it is important to channel the passion of the occupation into the nitty-gritty of grassroots democracy. As the writer Scott Turow suggests, "Those in tents across the nation should start going door to door with petitions, visiting legislators and building alliances with good-government groups, all in service to a proposed (constitutional) amendment" to regulate campaign financing to prevent anyone from having unequal influence on elections through their wealth.
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Last week (Jan 22-28) the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a British think tank, released a startling chart comparing the current slump with past recessions and recoveries. It turns out that by one important measure — changes in real G.D.P. since the recession began — Britain is doing worse this time than it did during the Great Depression. Four years into the Depression, British G.D.P. had regained its previous peak; four years after the Great Recession began, Britain is nowhere close to regaining its lost ground.
