Christopher Hitchens

Corey Robin

The American Conservative

Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch

Glenn Greenwald, at Salon.com

Gawker's John Cook

OWS

Orion's The Reign of the One Percenters

Occupy Everything Eats the Rich

The Christian Science Monitor asks if OWS needs leaders.

The Guardian sees OWS as a reprise of our radical imagination.

Soldiers' Revolts

These, from Vietnam.

The Zapatistas

Don't let a good movement go to waste, or, organizing ain't Glam.


S&P


Chomsky: The Assault on Education

Lawyers, Gun$ & Money reports that PETA will soon put its paws into porn.

Today's...

"It’s just that conservative ideas are born out of social cataclysms—the French Revolution, abolition, the Russian Revolution, the New Deal, the 1960s—in which people with power lose power. Real concrete power: over peasants, slaves, workers, blacks, wives. Conservatism, strange as it may sound, is the voice of the dispossessed: the aristocrats, masters, employers, whites, and husbands who’ve had their power taken away from them and want it back."

Wednesday Roundup

Religion doesn't have to be full of nutjobs


Mother Jones explains the London Riots

Mainstream media and Magical Thinking or, Why Conservative Media Understands Deficits Better (it's all about the money, stupid).

Democratic, small communities using local food and energy VS. Extinction

What we need are tough decisions that require virtue to address.

But until that, there's this , which is precisely what Zizek argues against here.