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Occupy Europe: Fighting the Diktats of the Global Financial Elite

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 […]

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Iraq War: Shame on Us

Iraq War: Shame on Us

By Ron Steinman The nine-year war in Iraq is over – technically, that is — on the ground in the war zone. Here are some numbers about the war in Iraq that are worth repeating. In the nearly decade long years of war, 4,486 Americans died with 32, 219 seriously wounded. Many more suffered minor […]

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Occupy and The Mayan Calendar: Will 2012 Be the Year of a Global Revolution?

Occupy and The Mayan Calendar: Will 2012 Be the Year of a Global Revolution?

Various prophecies of doom and gloom or even of  an Apocalypse have been linked to calendar year 2012. An Apocalypse ( Greek etymology: “lifting the veil” or “revelation”) is often wrongly viewed as the end of all things, but of course the very etymology of the word contradicts this notion. As a powerful revelation, an […]

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Occupy Birmingham: ICE, DHS, and the Modern Market of Slavery

Occupy Birmingham: ICE, DHS, and the Modern Market of Slavery

This is public notice of an investigation into the political and fiscal relationship between the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, and their agents), the Etowah County Detention Center (ECDC) and staff (especially Sheriff Todd Entrekin), and Representative Robert Aderholt of the US Congress (Alabama’s 4th District). I.C.E. officers Sheriff Entrekin I reported […]

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OWS: What Can the Global Occupy Movement Learn from Egypt?

OWS: What Can the Global Occupy Movement Learn from Egypt?

Revolutions are complex phenomenons which do not follow linear or predictable courses. The 1789 French revolution went through many phases encompassing its hardening and journey towards collective psychosis once Robespierre took control during the brutal phase known as the Terror. During this period of madness, so many heads were getting cut off by summary Guillotine […]

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