99% vs. 1%

99% vs. 1% -- The Latest on Occupy Wall St. Movement: 853 Cities Across the World Shoring Up for the Long Haul.
It's Day 21 of Occupy Wall St. (#OWS), a movement that has inspired Americans all over the country to fight Wall St.'s assault on their political and economic rights. Wednesday, in the biggest action yet, over 20,000 people marched in Lower .

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Naomi Klein: How We Can Take on Corporate Power and Expand the Environmental Movement.
On the eve of their annual celebration, Rainforest Action Network leader Rebecca Tarbotton talks with Naomi Klein about how to take on multinational giants and win.

AlterNet / By Rebecca Tarbotton

On the eve of their annual celebration, Rainforest Action Network leader Rebecca Tarbotton talks with Naomi Klein about how to take on multinational giants and win.

Editor's Note: Last year when Rainforest Action Network turned 25, AlterNet's Don Hazen wrote, "Rainforest Action Network has always been a darling of progressives, a group many people respect for all the right reasons. RAN successfully challenges corporate power and remains focused on the grassroots. Over the years, RAN has exercised a creative aggressiveness that larger, more mainstream environmental groups seem to lack." Now, as the organization is about to celebrate its 26th birthday, RAN's executive director Rebecca Tarbotton interviews bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein. Much like RAN, Klein has consistently been a voice for economic justice, international people's movements and environmental sanity. Her sharp critique of corporate power has shaped a generation of activists. This week, Klein heads from New York's Occupy Wall Street protests to San Francisco where she will be honored with a World Rainforest Award at the annual REVEL.

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How the FBI's Network of Informants Actually Created Most of the Terrorist Plots "Foiled" in the US Since 9/11.
The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them?

Mother Jones / By Trevor Aaronson

UPDATE: On September 28, Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old graduate of Northeastern University, was arrested and charged with providing resources to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to destroy national defense premises. Ferdaus, according to the FBI, planned to blow up both the Pentagon and Capitol Building with a "large remote controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives."

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Of 400 Richest Americans, Only 8 Say They're Willing to Pay More Taxes

The 400 wealthiest people in America were asked if they'd be willing to pay more taxes. How many said they would pay more taxes? That's right: 2 percent .

Salon / By Peter Finocchiaro

When Warren Buffett called on the U.S. government in August to “stop coddling the super-rich,” he pointed out that he pays less of of his income in taxes than his secretary does. He said the rich should pay higher taxes for the sake of “shared sacrifice,” and suggested that most of his wealthy friends “wouldn’t mind being told to pay more.”

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Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley Could Be Headed Toward Collapse -- Will Obama Have the Guts to Do the Right Thing This Time?
If events turn critical again and we face a repeat risk of the seizing up of financial markets as in the fall of 2008, the president will need to make a fateful decision.

AlterNet / By Robert Kuttner

Over the past few weeks, President Obama has at last "pivoted," in the widely used term, from emphasizing deficit reduction to focusing on jobs and taxation of millionaires. Spontaneous protest has done what the organized left failed to do; it has made Wall Street the appropriate target of diffuse economic frustrations. The labor movement has added its weight and institutional skills to these protests, and even President Obama has had some kind words for them.

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