Originally posted at DennisLoo.com:

Yesterday (February 9, 2012) David Carr at The New York Times wrote an article about Occupy entitled: “The Occupy Movement May Be in Retreat But Its Ideas Are Advancing.” He points out that Obama’s SOTU address took up the rhetoric of Occupy an… Read full post »

The U.S. and Israel have launched punishing sanctions upon Iran and one or both have assassinated Iranian scientists. Sanctions are not a way of avoiding a war; they are a prelude to war; they are the beginning stages of a war.

Before the unprovoked attack upon Iraq by Bush and… Read full post »

Part 1 can be read here. Part 2 is here.

A friend at Red Room, where the first two of my article series are also posted, commented on my "Dirty, Pretty Things: Apple, Inc. and China" series that the conditions of the Chinese workers at Apple suppliers… Read full post »

Part I can be found here.

The New York Times’ articles on Apple in China (I and II) have struck a chord and there is talk of an Apple boycott circulating among American journalists. Since Apple’s success depends a great deal on its being seen as cool, the explosions… Read full post »

 

“Capital … comes into the world soiled with gore from top to toe and oozing blood from every pore.”

                        -- Karl Marx, Capital

 

I love my… Read full post »

I'm going to comment on just a few things about Obama's SOTU speech last night. So many lies, so little time!

First, obviously absent the Occupy Movement, there would have been no talk in his speech about making the rich pay their fair share. This indicates the significance… Read full post »

I'm going to be on the Gary Null Show on Wed., Jan. 25th at 9 am PST. Gary has the largest progressive radio audience in the country. You can listen live or later as a podcast. (This is a new date from the original one.)… Read full post »

Originally published at DennisLoo.com

The four U.S. Marines shown on video urinating on the dead bodies of Afghanis, allegedly Taliban fighters, has sparked heated debate in this country and sparked outrage in the world. In an MSNBC story entitled: “Extreme war stresses to blame in Marine urina… Read full post »

The media have, with few exceptions, not covered the passage and signing by Obama of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA) in a fashion that would alert the populace to the momentousness of what is afoot. Even among those who know of the NDAA, many… Read full post »

For those in the area, I'll be giving a book talk about my new book, Globalization and the Demolition of Society, on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 at the Buena Vista Branch of the Burbank Library, 300 North Buena Vista Street,  Burbank, CA 91505, from 7 pm - 10 pm.

You're… Read full post »

This is an expanded version of an article that was first published at dennisloo.com. 

Whenever the election cycle starts up, some people tell us that they feel that they have no choice but ”to hold their noses” and vote for the “lesser evil,” by which they usually mean… Read full post »

The White House announced today that it would not veto the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. The NDAA mandates the military to arrest and indefinitely detain any person, including American citizens, anywhere in the world, including on US soil, who is accused by authorities as a terrorist or… Read full post »

Originally posted at DennisLoo.com on December 8, 2011:

The American Dream, as everyone knows, is that if you work hard, play by the rules, and persevere, that you will have a comfortable life for you and your family: (what used to be described as) the house with a… Read full post »

 

I was at OLA yesterday for seven and a half hours. I stayed until about 9:30 pm and had to leave, but up to that time I would estimate there were well over 2,000 people on site, with roughly 80% or more of the people being in their twenties. The police…

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So it has come to this: concerted and no doubt co-ordinated multi-city and multi-state police violence to evict/arrest/discard/manhandle the Occupy movement in numerous cities over the last immediate period, including the flagship of them all, Occupy Wall Street. 

 

They think tha… Read full post »

 

You’ve heard the 1%'ers and their apologists say it to Michael Moore, to Susan Sarandon, and to others who are famous and wealthy: you’re hypocrites for expressing support for the Occupy Movement.

Let me get this straight: if you’re wealthy and you refuse to recognize the… Read full post »

Why is Herman Cain still standing? After all of the verbal and cognitive missteps, ridiculous obliviousness to the most basic knowledge about political affairs (exceeding even Palin and Bachmann's famous ignorance and distortions), violations of campaign financing laws, groping and sexual harassment… Read full post »

 

I have described in many essays and in my new book the rift and struggle that exists now between those who uphold and celebrate private goods and the private interest versus those who defend and celebrate public goods and the public interest. It’s a very useful way… Read full post »

Yesterday Keith Olbermann on his Countdown show on Current TV interviewed one of the organizers of the Oakland Occupation. (The Oakland General Strike was a rousing success, by the way.) Towards the end of his interview, Olbermann asked about where the movement was going from there. The organizer rep… Read full post »

The first point I'd make is that the Occupation Movement (OM) has already won something very important. It has reframed the discourse from "I've got mine, aren't you envious?" to "99% v. 1%."

Since public opinion ultimately decides the course of events in the sense that coercion can prevail for… Read full post »

A bit of background first:

When Occupy Wall Street (OWS) started five weeks ago, the police and media's reaction to the demonstration was hostile, with police using pepper spray directly in people's eyes at point blank range, punching out women, attacking a man for the crime of carrying… Read full post »

Ever ask yourself why there's an economic crisis?

Why are people suffering and unable to afford necessities, many driven into the streets because they can no longer afford to live under the shelter of a home or apartment or single tiny room with dirt as their floor, people forced to… Read full post »

Naomi Klein’s much heralded Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism argues that neoliberals are consciously provoking disasters in order to justify and impose draconian market-based “solutions” as a remedy for the problems that they created in the first place.

To place h… Read full post »

Text of a talk that I gave on October 9, 2011:    

       First, a few words about why I wrote this book [Globalization and the Demolition of Society]. The book’s subject is neoliberalism and why it’s a dire threat to the planet. Neoliberalism/… Read full post »

 

In a September 27, 2011 New York Times article entitled “As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe” Nicholas Kulish writes of these popular worldwide eruptions:

 

“Their complaints range from corruption to lack of affordable housing and joblessness, common… Read full post »