Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top (Matt Taibbi)
Nov. 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Was absolutely mesmerized last night watching the viral video of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying. It was totally amazing, simultaneously one of most depressing and inspi ...
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FLATWIRE:How Wall Street Occupied America (Bill Moyers)
Bill Moyers This article is adapted from a speech Bill Moyers gave in October at Public Citizen’s fortieth-anniversary gala. Nov. 2, 2011 (The Nation) -- During the prairie revolt that swept the Grea ...
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Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges Oct. 24, 2011 (Truthdig) -- The occupation movement’s greatest challenge will be overcoming the deep distrust of white liberals by the poor and the working class, especially people of co ...
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Wall Street Isn't Winning -- It's Cheating (Matt Taibbi)
A protestor's sign expresses the sentiment of the Occupy Wall Street movement at a Occupy Wall Street protest in London. BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images Oct. 25, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- I was at an eve ...
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EU Bank Failures Will Crash Wall Street -- Again: 8 warnings for Washington and Occupiers (Paul B. Farrell)
Oct. 21, 2011 -- SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch ) -- Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea ...
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The World After Industrial Civilization Goes (Jan Lundberg)
Usher in the "new" economics of local self-sufficiency and community cooperation Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man* - Imagine, John Lennon *L ...
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Protests Show Capitalism ‘Nearly Broken’ (Simon Clark)
David Blood Oct. 19, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The protesters camping in London in support of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators may be right and capitalism risks losing its “license to operate,” Generat ...
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Occupy Wall Street’s Victory: It has shaken up American politics. Here’s what it should do next (Eliot Spitzer)
Eliot Spitzer How the movement has already shaken up American politics, and where it should go from here Oct. 13, 2011 (Salon) -- Occupy Wall Street has already won, perhaps not the victory most of i ...
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Why The Whole Idea Of The U.S Achieving 'Energy Independence' Is A Sham That Enriches Big Oil And Coal (Joshua Frank)
Oct. 13, 2011 (Alternet) -- Whether it is the hucksters pushing for the Keystone XL pipeline to cut across the Heartland, or the coal barons who are ramping up their exploits in Powder River Basin, a ...
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My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Hit bankers where it hurts (Matt Taibbi)
Protesters with the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement demonstrate in New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oct. 12, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- I've been down to "Occupy Wall Street" twice now, and I love it. ...
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Why the Elites Are in Trouble (Chris Hedges)
Oct. 10, 2011 (TruthDig.com) -- Ketchup, a petite 22-year-old from Chicago with wavy red hair and glasses with bright red frames, arrived in Zuccotti Park in New York on Sept. 17. She had a tent, a r ...
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