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Protests and Contradictions on the Second Anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution
by Lawrence McMahon Today marks the second anniversary of the date to which the beginning of the 2011 Egyptian revolution is generally ascribed. Naturally, today’s symbolic importance was not lost on the Egyptian multitudes, and so protests by opponents of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood have erupted today in cities all across the country. Some have […]
A Lesson from the Past for Occupy – Is it too late?
June 21, 2012
by Lupus With the tremendous flop of Occupy’s promised May Day General Strike, and the rancorous denunciations by libertarian Occupiers of the labor-backed “99% Spring” non-violence trainings over the last couple of months, even the most ardent Occupiers are beginning to admit they need a change of strategy, calling for a new “meme” to continue […]
The End of Euro-Triumphalism
January 23, 2012
by Bruno Fournier It has always been fashionable among certain strata of the American bourgeoisie to pretend to be European. Five or six years ago, perhaps that made sense, in a way. In the early- to mid-2000s, the mantra of Euro-Triumphalism ran supreme, as it seemed that capitalism’s New Jerusalem had departed from stagnant post-9/11 […]
A Selecting Stones Review of 2011, and a Warm Welcome to 2012
December 31, 2011
by the Scientific Editors of Selecting Stones It goes without saying that 2011 has been an eventful year. One crisis after another. We could get into all the details, but let’s try to keep this short, instead, because the past is in the past, and the future is what matters. The Arab Spring, perpetual economic […]
The Upper-Middle-Class character of Occupy Wall Street, an update
October 3, 2011
Occupy Wall Street remains overwhelmingly a movement representing the upper-middle-class. It is no mere coincidence that the free food handed out to the protesters is organic and vegan, and, although all sorts of people strive to eat healthy, in our day and age, the fetish of the organic tomato is primarily the reserve of the […]
You are not the 99%: An update on Occupy Wall Street
October 2, 2011
by Bruno Fournier So it seems, the media blackout on the Occupy Wall Street movement may be coming to an end. Yesterday, the arrest of 700 protesters marching across the Brooklyn Bridge finally put the movement on the website of the New York Times. Most other scant media coverage continues to focus on the movement’s […]
The Arab Spring arrives in New York, sort of
September 25, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon You would have to be blind not to see what is happening in the world right now, everywhere, as a whole. All within the past few months, we have the Arab Spring, riots in the U.K., months of student protests in Chile, and mass demonstrations in Greece and Italy, just to name […]
January 25, 2013
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