Paul Krassner — Hippies, Yippies, Radicals and Pranksters

Nostalgia. For the weekend.

If you don't recognize the names Paul Krassner, Jerry Rubin, and Abbie Hoffman, you can pass on it.

Counterpunch
Hippies, Yippies, Radicals and Pranksters
Paul Krassner | editor of The Realist

Laura Tyson and Anu Madgavkar — The Great Income Stagnation

Stagnating or falling real incomes do not just act as a brake on consumption demand and GDP growth; they also fuel social and political discontent, as citizens lose confidence in existing economic structures.

Project Syndicate
The Great Income Stagnation
Laura Tyson, former chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers, is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, a senior adviser at the Rock Creek Group, and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Gender Parity, and Anu Madgavkar is a McKinsey Global Institute partner.

Manchester Evening News — Anti-austerity rally: Pictures of police marksmen watching march from Manchester rooftops circulate on social media

Going viral.

Police spokesperson: “They are high up for that reason, to observe. And they [the guns] are used for their powerful sight, which is stronger than any pair of binoculars. They are not there to shoot people.”

Manchester Evening News
Anti-austerity rally: Pictures of police marksmen watching march from Manchester rooftops circulate on social media

Nicole Flatow — The Most Outrageous Police Tactics In Ferguson

This is pretty consistent with the tactics used against protestors in the anti-war movement in the Seventies, although some of the technology is different and the police were not a militarized as they are now. And this was against predominantly white affluent people or their children in the nation's capital. In some ways it was worse in DC than in Ferguson with respect to violation of civil rights and constitutional liberties, and it was on a far larger scale, with hundreds of thousands or protestors involved and battalions of police and military.

Think Progress
The Most Outrageous Police Tactics In Ferguson
Nicole Flatow

See also, Emily Tess Katz, Marc Lamont Hill Reports From Ferguson: National Guard 'Feels Like More Repression', HuffPost Live

John Kerry — hypocrite

"We are particularly alarmed by reports that the Venezuelan government has arrested or detained scores of anti-government protesters and issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez," Kerry said in a statement. "These actions have a chilling effect on citizens' rights to express their grievances peacefully" — US Secretary of State John Kerry.

After the brutal suppression of Occupy across the United States apparently coordinated by the Department of Homeland Security, the United States government has lost all credibility and moral authority to criticize other countries as long as fascism rules in the United States. There is no indication that anything has changed, and further revelations since then led to the conclusion that matters are worse than imagined.

World Post
Leopoldo Lopez, Venezuelan Opposition Leader, Sought By Police After Protests
Joshua Goodman | AP

Chris Hedges — Criminalizing Dissent

The very name of the law itself—the Homeland Battlefield Bill—suggests the totalitarian credo of endless war waged against enemies within “the homeland” as well as those abroad.

truthdig
Criminalizing Dissent
Chris Hedges

What is taking place now as the no so hidden agenda is massive intimidation of those who would effectively express dissent against the ruling elite and the government they control through state capture.