Articles by J.A. Myerson
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War Is a Force That Pays the 1 Percent: Occupying American Foreign Policy
J.A. Myerson - Truthout,
21 Nov 2011
If the last decades were the era of occupations that everyone called liberations, then the 99 percent movement is seeking to make this the era of liberations everyone calls occupations. It’s clear that the interests of the majority of people do not align with the military-industrial complex that put corporate profiteering based on destruction ahead of the needs of people. The 1 percent knows what good business war is, owing to America’s insatiable will to spend on military affairs.
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J.A. Myerson - Truthout,
7 Nov 2011
Perhaps it is the excitement of footage that resembles urban warfare which tempts so many reporters into pursuing the “protesters vs. police officers” narrative. However, the primary effect of highlighting it is to distract from the focus of the protest, says a 22-year-old protester from Boston calling herself “Mom”: “Not only does it detract from our anti-fraudulence message; every time we have to answer questions about it, it takes away from what we came here to do, which is protest against greedy, scheming corporations.”
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