by Robert Borosage | Oct 17, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Once Occupy Wall Street demonstrations started to sweep across America, the mainstream media began to pay attention -- and sounded a chorus of criticism. The movement was disorganized; it had no agenda. It wasn't organized like the Tea Party. Fox News trotted out ace...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 17, 2011 | Blog
Occupy Wall Street at Take Back the American Dream Excerpts of speeches from the Monday morning session of the Take Back the American Dream conference devoted to the Occupy Wall Street protests, featuring Nelini Stamp of the Working Families Party in New York, Tracy...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 17, 2011 | Blog, Economy
It's been a while since empathy — the uniquely human capacity to recognize and share the feelings experienced by others, that science even suggests is hardwired in us — when President Obama included it in the qualities he sought in a Supreme Court appointee, and...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 17, 2011 | Blog
Lame, pat, pre-packaged putdowns of Occupy Wall Street: We all deal with 'em, whether we're arguing with a neighbor, appearing on Fox, or answering the jeers of relatives who've just received a chain email that "really puts the protesters in their place." Here are a...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 17, 2011 | Blog
It was inevitable, I suppose, that the success of Occupy Wall Street and "We Are the 99 Percent" would spawn reactions and imitators on the right. But the newly launched "We Are the 53 Percent" is a miracle of the kind of contradiction and contortionism that has...
