Category Archives: The New Depression

Will the circle jerk of one-percenters be broken?

Posted on October 24, 2011 by oddmanout215

Members of outlaw motorcycle gangs used to call themselves “one-percenters,” meaning they were in the tiny minority of Americans who are unabashed sociopaths. However, when we hear “one-percenters” these days, the reference usually is to establishment types who are obscenely … Continue reading →

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Has America begun to ‘get’ Bernie Sanders?

Posted on October 22, 2011 by oddmanout215

To understand how right-wing the major political parties in America are, it helps to read the foreign press. This from The Guardian: … [Bernie Sanders’] beliefs… would fit comfortably in the middle left of Britain’s Labour party or Germany’s SPD. … Continue reading →

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NYT’s Keller wrong about Iraq, wrong about OWS

Posted on October 21, 2011 by oddmanout215

Many of us waited years for Bill Keller to own up to his key role in helping legitimize the disastrous Iraq War, but it never happened. So it’s no surprise that, instead of admitting he wrongly supported deregulation of the … Continue reading →

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You’d get jail. NYC cop gets slap on wrist.

Posted on October 19, 2011 by oddmanout215

I know, it’s part of the code. Cops have each other’s backs, just like the Three Musketeers or members of a motorcycle gang. You mess with one, you mess with them all, and risk being shot or used for a … Continue reading →

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On lies and the lying liars quoted in the NYT

Posted on October 18, 2011 by oddmanout215

I was going to post some comments on a New York Times story in which Wall Street types were asked to comment on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Thankfully, NYT columnist Paul Krugman beat me to it: On Saturday The … Continue reading →

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Elected Dems to protesters — we’re with you, sort of

Posted on October 17, 2011 by oddmanout215

Chris Hedges, plainly stating why “liberal” has become a dirty word not only to right-wingers but to many thinkers and activists on the left: Tinkering with the corporate state will not work. We will either be plunged into neo-feudalism and … Continue reading →

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Freedom of assembly? Not in MY public space

Posted on October 16, 2011 by oddmanout215

From Michael Kimmelman’s thoughtful piece about… well, about America’s rediscovery that movements to effect social change are often sparked by large, sustained public gatherings of protesters: THE ever expanding Occupy Wall Street movement, with encampments now not only in Lower … Continue reading →

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Don’t judge me by my shoes…

Posted on October 16, 2011 by oddmanout215

The Band was peaking as a creative force when “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” appeared on their second album. The song’s subject is a rural victim of the Great Depression who joins a labor union to avoid starvation. His plight … Continue reading →

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Toomey puppet paraded at Occupy Philly

Posted on October 15, 2011 by oddmanout215

“Follow the puppet!” The oversize papier-mache likeness of right-wing Sen. Pat Toomey stood tall among hundreds of Occupy Philly sympathizers marching from City Hall to Toomey’s Philly office with a petition for job creation. Coordinators shouted again when some marchers … Continue reading →

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Bloomberg backs off plan to sweep away OWS

Posted on October 14, 2011 by oddmanout215

Weary looking Russell Simmons, answering a reporter’s question about Occupy Wall Street after the movement survived a threat by NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg to “clean up” its camp in Zuccotti Park: The message is coming out. It’s pretty simple. We … Continue reading →

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