- The Occupy Movement Must Also Become a Voters' Rebellion
- Occupy Wall Streeters are right about skewed economic rewards in the United States
- 10 Winning Moments for the 99% in 2011
- Democrats Become Target of Occupy Protests NYT
- Occupy protester 'banned' from flight home for Christmas
- We Are Not All Created Equal: The truth about the American class system--"Every instinct in the American gut... runs on the idea that anybody can make it; the only limits are your own limits. Which is an amazing idea, a gift to the world — just no longer true."
- How Anger Took Elites by Surprise--"[E]verywhere, the conventional wisdom was turned upside down by people who turned out to be angrier than their elites had suspected...." NYT
- The Big Lie - banker, curator, writer Michael Thomas condenses the rage of democracy overturned by the capitalism of greed
- Weeding out corporate psychopaths--"Given the state of the global economy, it might not surprise you to learn that psychopaths may be controlling the world. Not violent criminals, but corporate psychopaths who nonetheless have a genetically inherited biochemical condition that prevents them from feeling normal human empathy."
- Beware corporate psychopaths – they are still occupying positions of power
- Living by Default--"We normally say that a company 'went bankrupt,' implying that it had no choice. But when, recently, American Airlines filed for bankruptcy, it did so deliberately. The airline had four billion dollars in the bank and could have kept paying its bills. But it has been losing money for a while, and its board decided that it was foolish to keep throwing good money after bad. Declaring bankruptcy will trim American’s debt load and allow it to break its union contracts, so that it can slim down and cut costs."
- A reformed Jack Abramoff? The notorious lobbyist talks about how he justified his own crimes and whether D.C. can be saved from corruption Salon
- Paul Ryan’s Shrewd Budget Payday--"The congressman stands to make money from his stakes in four businesses that lease land to energy companies which would benefit from $45 billion in tax breaks and subsidies in his proposed budget."
- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) Forces Unemployed Workers Off Unemployment Insurance While Giving Corporations A Tax Cut
- Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style
- Dylan Ratigan With Author Ron Suskind: "Tim Geithner Ran The White House, Stopped Attorney General Eric Holder From Prosecuting Wall Street"
- How Banks Cheat Taxpayers
- Bank bailouts: Why are we helping banks and demanding austerity for everyone else?
- The Federal Reserve proposes new banking rules--"The Federal Reserve has proposed new rules designed to ensure that US banks can survive future financial crises without taxpayer-funded bailouts."
- The 99% Versus Wall Street: Stephen Lerner on How We Can Mobilize To Be the Greedy 1%'s Worst Nightmare
- 7 of the Nastiest Scams, Rip-Offs and Tricks From Wall Street Crooks