Occupy Religion: Don’t Let Religion Occupy You
Religion, and religious institutions, are not only granted undeserved credit for their role in social movements, but are also not afforded the responsibility they deserve for the damage they inflict to the movements they infect, and the communities represented by those movements. Christians are all too ready to yell about the involvement of Islamic organizations […]
Occupy Worldwide 2012: Real Hope for Global Change
Obama: From “Hope and Change” to I am not as bad as the other guy In 2008, then candidate Barack Obama got elected on the promises of “hope and change”. Voters were excited in America, but the wind of hope and enthusiasm was not limited to the border of the United States. After his speech […]
May Day 2012: The Only Way Forward May be to Stop
The global demonstrations of May Day have long been ignored in America. A day set aside for the voice of workers has been replaced by a day, recognized four months later on the calendar, of sales, BBQ’s, and a time to stop wearing white pants. The Occupy Movement, along with many others fighting on behalf […]
2012 Financial Prediction: More of the Same but Worse
Those that produce nothing are making more, and more, while those that produce everything are making less, and less… money, that is. We have no one to blame but ourselves. We allow it to happen. We know that we were fleeced, robbed, and extorted, not only in 2007, the most obvious recent example of the […]
Occupy Europe: Fighting the Diktats of the Global Financial Elite
At its inception, the European Union was an attempt to counterbalance the dominant global geopolitical power of the United States and the USSR. The EU was also supposed to offer a better, more democratic social and political system where the 99 percent had a voice and where political decision were made by equal nation partners […]
