'Occupy' Movement Planning To Swarm Iowa Caucuses

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 THE BIG STORY, BY MATT TAYLOR 'Occupy' Movement To Swarm Iowa Caucuses Occupy Wall Street is getting ready to occupy the 2012 presidential campaign. Iowa activists are planning to "shut down" campaign offices of all presidential contenders in the week leading up to the Jan. 3 caucuses, in the hope that direct confrontation with the political system -- at a time when hundreds of journalists have descended on the state to cover the first official battle in the Republican primary campaign -- will focus national debate on income inequality, money in politics, and the troubles of the "99 percent." READ MORE Send To A Friend >> Featured Column: ron klain Americans Want A Government That Ties Rewards To Work What protest groups on the left and the right share with less activist middle-class Americans -- the apolitical voters who often decide elections -- is an abiding sense that the bond between work and reward has been broken. Huge financial rewards are given to executives who fail miserably and get fired. Debt relief programs help not only those who have fallen behind through no fault of their own, but also the profligate who lived beyond their means. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> war and peace What Led American Soldiers To Mutilate Afghan Civilians? As the trial opens for the remaining members of the "kill team" -- U.S. Army soldiers who allegedly murdered and dismembered three Afghan civilians -- it is worth asking what can be done to prevent further abuses. But the military has been reluctant to investigate up the chain of command and critically examine the conditions and policies that led to the gruesome incidents at the center of the case. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> Featured Column: Leonard Pitts Jr. The Jobs Crisis Is Over! But Only If You Want Migrant Labor Wages Ever since the tough Alabama immigration law was passed, Hispanic farm laborers who had been taking jobs from hard-working Americans have been fleeing that state like a foreign language film with subtitles. As a result, there is now lots of work available in the exciting field of... Well, fields. As in fields of vegetables and fruit. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> EURO CRISIS Greek P.M. Faces Showdown With European Leaders Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will try to win over irate European leaders Wednesday, hours after persuading his cabinet to back a hugely-controversial referendum on the debt-crippled country's latest rescue package. READ MORE Send To A Friend >> CARTOON OF THE DAY Send To A Friend >>

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