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On Martin Luther King Day: "Our" American Gulag, hidden in plain sight

Yesterday afternoon, I went down to Boxcar Books to attend an event put on by the Decarcerate Working Group, a joint project of Occupy Bloomington and Decarcerate Monroe County. I thought I would just go for the movie, Visions of Abolition: Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life, and then leave. I ended up […]

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Wali Ali Meyer on "Sufi Sam" and the Dances of Universal Peace

One afternoon when I was still living in Jackson, Wyoming — must have been in the late ’90s — a woman came to our office and said she could only stay a few minutes, because she was on her way to a Dances of Universal Peace weekend in Lava Hot Springs. Instantly, my ears pricked […]

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Ellen Brown: Who owns what in America? Serious questions raised about "bank-owned" properties.

It appears that the complexities of the “financial instruments” that funneled monies up to the 1% are so seriously flawed that a disconnect yawns between contracts and the properties they purport to refer to. This news has been floating in the ethers for awhile, but the intrepid Ellen Brown now nails it down and shows […]

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NYT Editorial: The elephant in the Republican living room

Another pundit rides the reverberations of the truth-telling Occupy movement that keeps on fermenting, even in deep winter. Imagine what spring will bring! And see this. By the way, notice that this editorial does not mention “Occupy”, though it does mention “the 1%.” Is this because the movement has seeded itself now so deeply within […]

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Chris Hedges sues Barack Obama and Leon Panetta over legality of NDAA

Hedges lays it out in clear, unequivocal language: “I suspect the real purpose of this bill is to thwart internal, domestic movements that threaten the corporate state. . . I suspect [this law] passed because the corporations, seeing the unrest in the streets, knowing that things are about to get much worse, worrying that the […]

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Simplify Lifestyle Department: One custom tiny home.

View all 69 photos of various nooks and crannies in this sweet little abode. Thanks to ranprieur for the link.  

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