The Occupy Movement, far from having no programme, has revolutionized our sense of self. The Citizen of the World adopts a panoramic view of society and takes the interests of others all over the world to be as important as her or his self interest.
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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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The Hindu 'Socialism in 21st century will have to take a different form'The Hindu“We have to go through different phases of developing socialism,” Mr. Karat said. 
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"You have been penned in, kettled, assaulted and arrested. You have had your protest broken up, your occupation invaded, your picket line disbanded. Now you're facing something called 'Total Policing'. Wherever you try to organise, you confront the state as the constant factor in your disorganisation. Whether 'personated', as Marx puts it, by the riot cop, the senior civil servant, or the coalition minister, you find it is always there, resourceful, organised, centralised, almost always one or two steps ahead, almost always with a monopoly on political initiative. "
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Which is why Nick Clegg's speech on employee ownership and Ed Miliband's criticisms of short-termism and predatory capitalism seem far more in tune with the British psyche. Cameron's is an instinctive attempt to connect the over-leveraged, anti-industrial, financial-services economy of the south-east to a deep British identity. It is a political project rather than historical truth.
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More than 10,000 Spaniards have joined the “Yo No Pago” (“I’m not paying”) movement on Facebook to protest rising transportation costs. Now, they’ve starting putting this concept into practice by jumping turnstiles in the subway.
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Constitutional patriotism carries several threats. It imperils the meaning of rights, making them too dogmatic or too universal. In the latter case it disconnects them from institutions, in the former it alienates those with a minority identity.
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A crowd of anti-military activists suddenly converged on a bustling Cairo boulevard, erecting makeshift screens and showing videos of soldiers beating protesters, dragging women on the ground, partially stripping one and stomping on her chest. Their message: The generals ruling Egypt have to go.
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" The term "compassion" -- typically reserved for the saintly or the sappy -- has fallen out of touch with reality."
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"Lisa Gansky, author of "The Mesh," talks about a future of business that's about sharing all kinds of stuff, either via smart and tech-enabled rental or, more boldly, peer-to-peer."
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Whether the ratings agencies get this or that decision right or wrong is not the point. They have become the buck-passing agencies for weakened states. The most important public judgements of credit-worthiness ought to be made in public institutions, not behind corporate doors. By Tony Curzon Price.
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"I think the risk of a breakdown of the monetary system and/or collapse of the dollar is still slight, but it has increased. So “the ultimate commodity basis on which the [monetary] system rests … lingers in the background — in the consciousness of bankers and, in a very complex and mediated way, in the actual rates at which monetary instruments trade in the worlds’ currency and money markets.” E.g., potential breakup of the Eurozone causes the euro to depreciate against the dollar, while financial crisis and instability causes all currencies to depreciate against gold."
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...our friends at Jacket Copy report, based on the New York Post, that the fiesty philosopher and theorist who often rakes through pop culture for his latest ideas has struck up a friendship with the singing and dancing doyenne of outfits that call to mind both a nun's habit and a condom.
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"So Europe today needs policies and strategies to restore growth. Pure austerity alone will be severely recessionary and eventually will produce a depression."
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Chad Kautzer leads an Occupy Denver teach-in on economic and social theory, or what he calls Occupy Economics. He is a professor at the University of Colorado...
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A World War Called 'Democracy'Pacific Free Press"For almost the first time in two centuries", wrote Terry Eagleton, "there is no eminent British poet, playwright or novelist prepared to question the foundations of the western way of life".
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In Nevada, we need our leaders in government and industry to develop policies that grow clean energy and outdoor recreation in a healthy environment. We need to protect our outdoor spaces and encourage cycling, hiking, hunting and all kinds of outdoor recreation. We need Congress to support healthy communities and successful environmental laws and to start making the big polluting industries pay for the costs they have externalized on the public and our environment. And as we have in the past, Nevadans and all Americans must pull together to make a brighter future for us all.
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An Occupy London protester lodges an appeal against a High Court ruling that ordered the group to move on from outside St Paul's Cathedral.
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Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up to fight for their basic rights to free speech
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excerpts from "The People Speak" on empire, war and patriotism.
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Thanks to the Supreme Court and Citizens United, the same big corporations and billionaires that destroyed our economy and caused millions of us to lose our jobs and homes, are spending obscene amounts to drown out our voices in elections and take over our government.
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Senate majority leader Harry Reid and House Judiciary committe chairman Lamar Smith postpone votes on anti-piracy bill...
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TED Talks Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love.
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Thinking in Systems Donella H. Meadows. Dana Meadows’ exposition in this book exhibits a degree of clarity and simplicity that can only be attained by one who profoundly and honestly understands the subject at hand--in this case systems modeling.
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