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Residents of Cairo’s Darb al-Ahmar neighborhood have gathered at a streetside café on a late October Friday night to get their first glimpse of a political party founded by revolutionary activists. Men play backgammon and sip from their glasses of tea as members of...
Have so many ever been so enthusiastic over a plan to beg, borrow, and steal $1.5 trillion? •Beg - Weaker European banks will have to raise over $100 billion in capital. •Borrow - Eurozone will borrow $1.4 trillion to bailout future sovereign and bank defaults. •Steal...
‘There is no third force, political party or communist academic behind our struggle. It is oppression at the hands of the African National Congress that has driven us into the rebellion of the poor. We are in rebellion because we are being forced to live without...
Four weeks into its life, Occupy Wall Street has already confounded both its critics and its well-wishers. Far from twittering away its energies after an initial burst of enthusiasm as predicted (or feared), it appears to have touched something in average Americans in...
The millions of unemployed around the world can, finally, find an occupation these days, it seems, as momentum from the camped protest at New York's Zuccotti Park near Wall Street continues to spread to other cities in the United States and beyond American borders to...
By its actions, Occupy Wall Street is puncturing myths like these:l. The Myth that direct action against the center of financial power can’t be sustained’2. The Myth that New York City is a bastion of liberalism and tolerance with its Mayor from Wall Street and its...
One side effect of the American/British occupation of Iraq is that it sparked public debate on a dark secret of international finance: the debts taken on by odious regimes. As Iraq's new rulers debate what to do about the billions of dollars in foreign debts inherited...