Monday, November 07, 2011

More Links: Occupy Wall Street, Part 5

My previous posts on this topic are: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4.


Occupied Newspapers:

The Occupied Washington Post, Number 1, 01 November 2011.

Occupied Oakland Tribune, 02 November 2011.


Websites with substantial Occupy Wall Street movement coverage:

Occupied Media: non-technical video interviews and discussions, mostly on economics.

Special Coverage: OCCUPY WALL STREET | AlterNet.

Plutocracy Files by Taryn Hart.

The Majority Report with Sam Seder.


Articles and Videos:

Empty Ballet, "The Politics of Experience," YouTube.
Refers to the book: R. D. Laing. The Politics of Experience. Pantheon, 1983.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Wikipedia on R. D. Laing.]

Joseph E. Stiglitz, "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%," Vanity Fair, May 2011.
See also the following link, in which Stiglitz discusses his essay.

Amy Goodman, "Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Assault on Social Spending, Pro-Rich Tax Cuts Turning U.S. into Nation 'Of the 1 Percent, by the 1 Percent, for the 1 Percent'," Democracy Now!, 07 April 2011.

Yves Smith, "Your Humble Blogger Asked Larry Summers a Question He Did Not Like," naked capitalism, 24 April 2011.

"This Powerful Clip Is Exactly Why We Support #OccupyWallStreet," MoveOn.org, 05 October 2011.

"Chris Hedges on the Tea Party and difference between Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street protesters," RT, 06 October 2011.

James Kwak, "Straight Out of Antiquity," The Baseline Scenario, 10 October 2011.

John Nichols, "The 99 Percent Rise Up," The Nation, website: 12 October 2011; print edition: 31 October 2011.

"Journalistic Standards Collapse over Occupy Wall Street," Global Research TV, 19 October 2011.
This is a CBC interview of Chris Hedges in which one correspondent verbally abuses and belittles Hedges.

David Intrator, "A Businessman Occupies Wall Street," Truthdig, 22 October 2011.

David Suzuki, "David Suzuki at Occupy Vancouver - Part 1 of 3," Occupy Vancouver Media, 22 October 2011.

David Suzuki, "David Suzuki at Occupy Vancouver - Part 2 of 3," Occupy Vancouver Media, 22 October 2011.

David Suzuki, "David Suzuki at Occupy Vancouver - Part 3 of 3," Occupy Vancouver Media, 22 October 2011.

Frank Rich, "The Class War Has Begun," New York, 23 October 2011.

Chris Hedges, "Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent," Truthdig, 24 October 2011.

Charlie Rose, "A discussion about Occupy Wall Street," Charlie Rose, 24 October 2011.
A discussion with Amy Goodman and Chris Hedges.

For a laugh see this excerpt from FOX News: "The Star of the Show is Rather Sternly Prim Lefty by the Name of Amy Goodman."

I recommend Amy Goodman's show Democracy Now!.

Christopher Ketcham, "The Reign of the One Percenters," Orion Magazine, November/December 2011.
Ketcham discusses this essay with Sam Seder on The Majority Report, 25 October 2011.

Matt Taibbi, "Wall Street Isn't Winning – It's Cheating," Taibblog at Rolling Stone, 25 October 2011.

Corey Robin, "Fear, American Style: What the Anarchist and Libertarian Don’t Understand about the US," CoreyRobin.com, 25 October 2011.
"While people on the left and the right often focus on state repression—coercion and intimidation that comes from and is wielded by the government (politically driven prosecution and punishment, police violence, and the like)—the fact is that a great deal of political repression happens in civil society, outside the state. More specifically, in the workplace."

Corey Robin is author of the recently published book: The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. Oxford University Press USA, 2011.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

And as noted in his article above, Professor Robin is also the author of the book: Fear: The History of a Political Idea. Oxford University Press USA, 2004.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Danny Schechter, "The MSM’s Fear of OWS," Consortiumnews.com, 26 October 2011.

"US cops tried to erase online evidence of brutality," RT, 26 October 2011.
Video report is lower down on above-referenced webpage. Also posted at Global Research TV.

Gordon Lafer, "Why Occupy Wall Street Has Left Washington Behind," The Nation, website: 26 October 2011; print edition: 14 November 2011.

Dahlia Lithwick, "Occupy the No-Spin Zone," Slate, 26 October 2011.
"One of the best things about Occupy Wall Street is the way it confuses and ignores the shrill pundit class."
Lithwick discusses her article with Sam Seder on The Majority Report, 27 October 2011.

David Harvey, "Rebels on the Street: The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis," Verso Books Blog, 28 October 2011.
Also posted at DavidHarvey.org.

Glenn Greenwald, "The importance of protests," Salon.com, 30 October 2011.

Stephen Colbert, "Colbert Super PAC - Stephen Colbert Occupies Occupy Wall Street, Part 1," The Colbert Report, 31 October 2011.

Stephen Colbert, "Colbert Super PAC - Stephen Colbert Occupies Occupy Wall Street, Part 2," The Colbert Report, 01 November 2011.

Noam Chomsky, "Occupy the Future," Truthout, 01 November 2011.

Robert Scheer and Chris Hedges, "Robert Scheer and Chris Hedges on Class Struggle," Truthdig Radio / 90.7 KPFK Los Angeles, 01 November 2011.
The title doesn't adequately describe this wide ranging discussion.

Rinaldo Brutoco, "Business Leader: 'I'm So Grateful to Occupy Wall Street'," Truthout, 02 November 2011.

Bill Moyers, "How Wall Street Occupied America," The Nation, website: 02 November 2011; print edition: 21 November 2011.

Note that in his essay Bill Moyers refers to the Powell Memo and discusses how it helped catalyze and direct the businessmen's contingent of the right-wing movement after the memo was distributed in 1971, and which has resulted in the corporation dominated society and government that we see today. (Watch this blog for a future post of links on the Powell Memo.)

Moyers recommends the book:
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Robert Parry, "End of the Reagan Narrative?," Consortiumnews.com, 02 November 2011.

Naomi Wolf, "We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global Conflict Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not Nation State or Religion," AlterNet, 01 November 2011.

Concerned Students of Economics 10, "An Open Letter to Greg Mankiw," MR Zine, 02 November 2011.

This letter was also noted and discussed at naked capitalism:

Steve Keen, "Steve Keen: Harvard Starts its Own PAECON Against Mankiw," naked capitalism, 03 November 2011.

MR Zine has many additional articles related to Occupy Wall Street.

Paul Krugman, "Oligarchy, American Style," The New York Times, 03 November 2011.

Paul Jay, "Bill Black: Jobs Now, Stop the Foreclosures, Jail the Banksters," The Real News Network, 03 November 2011.
Bill Black offers an answer to people who demand specific policy recommendations from Occupy Wall Street.

Edward Harrison, "Joseph Stiglitz on Iceland's Crisis and Recovery," Credit Writedowns, 03 November 2011.

Fritz Tucker, "American Autumn Pt. 3: A Chill Descends on Occupy Wall Street," Fritz Tucker's Blog, 04 November 2011.
Also posted at GlobalResearch.ca.
In political theory the phenomena Fritz Tucker experienced and describes is known as the Iron law of oligarchy (Wikipedia link).

Sara Robinson, "Occupy’s Asshole Problem: Flashbacks from An Old Hippie," radio or not, 04 November 2011.

Charles Hugh Smith, "The Collapse of Our Corrupt, Predatory, Pathological Financial System Is Necessary and Positive," Of Two Minds, 05 November 2011.


(Acknowledgment: Some links obtained from Plutocracy Files by Taryn Hart and Rortybomb by Mike Konczal.)