Articles on Occupy Wall Street Mon. Feb. 6, 2012

1. ‘That Guy’s Screaming At The Cop!’ Watch The UMass Amherst Riots Narrated By Two Coeds... 
Read and video:  Mediaite

2. Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy...  Read @:  Truth Out

3. HUD Secretary Donovan: “Large Majority” of Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Paid By Banks...  Read @:  Fire Dog Lake

4. Stephanie Lazarus Murder Case: LAPD Detective On Trial For 26-Year-Old Crime...  Read @:  Huffington Post

5. Landmark foreclosure settlement imminent, officials say... 
Read @:  Washington Post

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Sun. Feb. 5, 2012

1. Koch Brothers Convene Super-Secret Billionaires' Meeting for 2012 Elections... 
Read @:  Truth Out

2. Police: 11 Arrested at Occupy DC Site...  Read @:  ABC News

3. Is Money Speech?... 
Read @:  Huffington Post

4. Annonyomous Ready to Dump 2.6GB of Haditha docs...  Read @:  Boing Boing

5. NDAA Nullification: Tennessee Bills Propose Kidnapping Charges for Federal Agents...  Read @:  Oath Keepers

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Sun. Jan. 29, 2012

1. Twitter May Censor Tweets...  Read @:  Crooks and Liars

2. A Citizen's Report From the U.S. Conference of Mayors... 
Read @:  Huffington Post

3. The Occupy Movement Braves Winter...  Read @:  Fire Dog Lake

4. Occupy Protesters and Police Clash in Oakland... 
Read @:  Truth Out

5. Occupying Hawaii: Paradise Lost and Found... 
Read @:  Truth Out

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Tue. Jan. 24, 2012

1. 20 Things That Happened on the Internet in 2011... 
Read @:  Laughing Squid

2. The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector, A Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money... 
Read @:  Truth Out

3. Joan Walsh Says Newt Gingrich Represents ‘Resentment,’ ‘Racism,’ ‘Angry White Male Rage’...  Read @:  Mediaite

4. GOP Now Pushing For Guns In Kindergarten Classes... 
Read @:  The New Civil Rights Movement

5. True Confession: I Bought A Foreclosed Home and Put A Family On The Street...  Read @:  Occupy Los Angeles

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Fri. Jan. 20, 2012

1. Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever... 
Read @:  Truth Out

2. PIPA Just a Few Votes from Defeat on Cloture... 
Read @:  Fire Dog Lake

3. Internet wins: Votes on PIPA/SOPA indefinitely postponed... 
Read @:  The Raw Story

4. Kucinich Announces 'Game Changing' Constitutional Amendment to Publicly Finance Federal Elections...  Read @:  Nation of Change

5. Learning to Sit Alone, in a Quiet Empty Room... 
Read @:  Zen Habits

Blackout Strike: Anonymous Calls for Street Protests, Lawmakers Drop Support of SOPA and PIPA

Wikipedia. Reddit. Wordpress. Wired magazine. All of these sites and thousands of others are participating in a one-day blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills proposed in Congress...  Read @:  Truth Out

What Is SOPA? Here Are Five Things You Need to Know

Today, hundreds of websites are joining in a day of action to SOPA’s threat to freedom of expression on the Internet... 
Read @: Truth Out

Recovering From Authoritarian Simpatico Syndrome (ASS): "Because the Cops Don't Need You and Man They Expect the Same"

Witnessing the acts and utterances of Republican presidential candidates can be regarded as a helpful psychological exercise, a type of "exposure therapy" involving the development of methods used to bear the presence of unbearable people, who insist on evincing the history of human ignorance, duplicity and ...  Read @:  Truth Out

How College Football Bowls Earn Millions In Profits But Pay Almost Nothing In Taxes

This is the first post in a three-part series about the college football’s bowl system, the Bowl Championship Series...  Read @:  Truth Out

Justice Department Finally Cuffs Sheriff Joe, But Not the Policy That Made Him

Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America,” will cooperate with the federal government’s demands to clean up his department after a three-year investigation found rampant racial profiling and widespread discriminatory policing under his watch. But he’s not doing it without issuing a few... 
Read @:  Truth Out

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Tue. Jan. 10, 2012

1. SOPA Debate Occurring in Media Vacuum...  Read @:  Fire Dog Lake

2. Top New Jersey Republican Lawmaker Dies...  Read @:  NY Times

3. Have the Super-Rich Seceded From the United States?... 
Read @:  Truth Out

4. Occupy Wall Street: The People Have Had Enough... 
Read @:  Politics on Toast

5.  CONSTITUTIONAL SHERIFFS AND PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE LAS VEGAS JANUARY 29-31, 2012... 
Read @:  Oath Keepers

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Mon. Jan. 9, 2012

1. Linguists name 'occupy' as 2011's word of the year...  Read @:  CNN

2. Arpaio deputy shot, killed on burglary call... 
Read @:  The Raw Story

3. Author of "Pity the Billionaire" Maps Our Ideological Fantasy World... 
Read @:  Truth Out

4. Pastor Joel Osteen to Oprah: Homosexuality Is Sin — But Gay People Will Get Into Heaven...  Read @:  The Blaze

5. Name-Calling on the Internet Is Serious Business: Susan Crawford...  Read @:  Bloomberg

Debacle! How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower

It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact.  It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana.  It was to be “mission accomplished” all the way.  And then, of course, it wasn’t.  And then, almost nine dismal years later, it was over (sorta)...  Read @:  Truth Out

Large Protests Held in Syria to Prove Discontent to Monitors

Despite a continuing government crackdown, hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of several Syrian cities on Friday, as protesters seemed intent on showing visiting Arab League monitors the extent of opposition to President Bashar al-Assad... 
Read more:  Truth Out

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Dec. 29, 2011

1. Colorado becomes third state to ask DEA to reclassify pot... 
Read @:  MSNBC

2. My Political Prediction For 2012: It's Obama-Clinton... 
Read @:  Nation of Change

3. Why Are American Citizens Getting Locked Up and Even Deported By Immigration Authorities?...  Read @:  Truth Out

4. Russian Protesters Demands...  Read @:  Take the Squate

5. State of The Arms Race Between Repressive Governments and Anti-Censorship/Surveillance Tor Technology (and why American Companies are on the Repressive Governments' Side)... 
Read @:  Boing Boing

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Dec. 27, 2011

1. Occupy Minnesota’ helps woman stay in her home...  Read more:  The Raw Story

2. How Social Media Influences the Occupy Movement... 
Read more:  Articles Splendor

3. Fed’s Once-Secret Data Compiled by Bloomberg Released to Public...  Bloomberg News today released spreadsheets showing daily borrowing totals for 407 banks and companies that tapped Federal Reserve emergency programs during the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis. It’s the first time such data have been...  Read more:  Bloomberg

4. China Jails Activist...  Read more:  The Daily Activist

5. A Brainpower Revolution...  Read more:  Truth Out

The Way to Occupy a Bank Is to Own One

Occupy Wall Street has been both criticized and applauded for not endorsing any official platform. But there are unofficial platforms, including one titled the "99 percent Declaration," which calls for a "National General Assembly" to convene on July 4, 2012, in Philadelphia...  Read more:  Truth Out

Revolutions Don't Happen in a Day: Five Ways OWS Can Stay Powerful and Truly Build a Movement

Social transformation means not only harnessing a moment, but building a movement.

On September 17, we took Liberty Square, used it to begin to create the social norms and institutions of a society to come, and became the Occupy movement. We hit the streets fiercely, abandoning the metal barricades they once contained us in, rejecting the marching permits they offered us, refusing their sidewalks...  Read more:  Truth Out

Why is the Media Lying About New NDAA Power for Indefinite Military Detention of Americans?

At some point a sideshow to a story becomes so painfully obvious that it becomes the story, and this now should be: Why is the media taking such pains to knowingly and falsely claim that the new power of the military to detain and imprison people without charge or trial, for life, does not include US citizens?...  Read more:  Truth Out

Noam Chomsky: The US-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement Is "Part of a Global Program of World Militarization"

[Editor's. note: This is a transcript of a conversation between members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Noam Chomsky, which took place on September 21, 2011. Each question was asked in Dari and translated by Hakim.]...  Read more:  Truth Out