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Four Dead in Ohio

Occupy and Black Bloc tactics….Lives in the Balance

"A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire...or preserve his freedom." -Malcolm X (lyrics from Lives in the Balance, by Jackson Browne) I've been waiting for something to happen For a week or a month or a year. With the blood in the ink of the headlines and the sound of the crowd in my ear you might ask what it takes to remember when you know that you've seen it before. A government lies to a people And a country is drifting to war. There has been a lot of debate lately about black bloc tactics as a so-called violent action, and it has been condemned as counter-intuitive to the peaceful protests of the Occupy Movement. Up to now, those tactics have simply involved a gradual ramping up of pressure on the corporate interests who run (and ruin) our world...

Occupying OKC

Faulking Opinions (Editor\s note: This is a commentary written for the Oklahoma Gazette as a "point/counterpoint" rebuttal to an anti-occupy editorial. It should run in the November 16, 2011 edition of the paper.)   What began as a single protest in a park in the Wall Street Financial District less than two months ago has grown to thousands of cities across the world, including several occupations in Oklahoma. Unlike earlier protests in history, which were narrow in focus and concentrated on singular issues, the Occupy Movement has grander aspirations: to take back America from the moneyed interests who have hijacked Democracy in the name of greed. They call themselves the 99%, and assert that the richest individuals and corporations in America have been unfairly enriched thr...

“I only have escaped alone to tell thee….”

Update time again! I hope everyone has recovered from the shock of the election, I survived by going on a serious post-Halloween chocolate binge. Several pounds and a couple of cavities later, I feel a bit better. Truthfully, I was saying weeks ahead of time (only half jokingly), that the results were already predetermined. As each day goes by, it becomes more apparent that that was indeed the case. Nixon was undone by the break-in of a single office, so what\s the penalty for stealing an entire election? This will only gain momentum in the weeks ahead, mark my words. Stay tuned. Okay, here\s the latest in our cybercorner: We\re already on our way to a record month for visits to the site, but our "core readers" are (and always will be) the heart and soul of The Faulking Truth. Thank...