So we have come to the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Big Al mentioned it in an essay already.

Have all those thousands who participated, not just here in the US, but around the world, gone underground and dropped out of any attempt at change? Nah.

Decentralization and the End of Protest

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This evening's music features The Godfather of Soul, James Brown. Enjoy!

It was all a lie – one of the biggest and most elaborate falsehoods ever sold to the American people. .

We thought we were just letting a friend crash at the house for a few days; we ended up with a family of hillbillies who moved in forever, sleeping nine to a bed and building a meth lab on the front lawn - Matt Taibi

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Is it possible to create an effective political movement using a shared leadership platform?

The answer is an unequivocal, yes.

In fact, many business models and government programs are now embedding a shared leadership paradigm into future plans because it increases accountability and promotes employ ownership. Cooperative environments simply tend to facilitate productivity better than business models plagued by incessant discord.

NOTE: This is the first in a series of articles that will lay out an action plan for uniting the populist movement.

The Political Landscape

To accurately gauge the efficacy of the Democratic Party base as a political entity, you need to understand how deeply compromised its members are by “magical” thinking.