Articles by Carl Gibson

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The American Sniper You Didn’t Hear About
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News, 2 Feb 2015

Another American sniper became so disgusted by what he had done that he started the first-ever antiwar blog, and is actively encouraging his fellow soldiers to use their First Amendment rights to speak out against what he calls an ‘illegal occupation’ in Iraq.

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Four Ways to Evolve Beyond Capitalism
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News, 10 Mar 2014

Now that we’re having a serious conversation about capitalism, we can also have a conversation about solutions. Along with calling out flaws of capitalism, I’m proposing four solutions that would fix the most glaring problems in capitalism and blaze a new path forward for the next generation.

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Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor
Steve Horn and Carl Gibson, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2013

Serbia’s Srdja Popovic is known as a leading architect of regime changes in Eastern Europe since the late-1990s. Lesser known investigation reveals that Popovic and the Otpor! offshoot CANVAS have maintained close ties with a Goldman Sachs executive and the intelligence firm Stratfor, as well as the U.S. government. Popovic’s wife also worked at Stratfor for a year.

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Cooperative Economics: Replacing a Capitalism in Collapse
Carl Gibson, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2013

All it takes to form a co-op is a small group of determined people set on an idea to cooperatively own and operate a facet of the economy and allow them to make decisions in a democratic process. By democratizing society through housing and work, we can start a new revolution in our politics, our economy, and even our environment.

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Austerity: Planned Poverty
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News, 13 May 2013

If a math textbook that never underwent an official academic review and was proven to contain basic factual inaccuracies were nonetheless used by an entire school to teach math, wouldn’t it be fair to say that all of that school’s graduates were incapable of doing math?

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Different Rules for Plutocrats
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News, 21 Jan 2013

26-year-old Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz faced up to 35 years in federal prison for the ‘crime’ of downloading academic files from the JSTOR database for anyone to have, free of charge. Contrast that with recent news of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who gambled and lost $6 billion in other people’s money in a high-risk trading scheme. Jail wasn’t even considered, despite their open complicity in bilking millions of people out of their money, and aiding criminals.

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A ‘Grand Bargain’ or a Grand Uprising?
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News, 19 Nov 2012

What will we look like a year from today? Will we be another Greece, under the control of greedier banks and a crueler government, or will we take our economy back from the banks like Iceland did? The choice isn’t up to our politicians- it’s up to us. Let’s get to work.

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