My name is Marc Adler. I'm a recent graduate of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a freelance journalist who runs a blog, The Bloody Crossroads. My goal is to explain how state/corporate power controls our society and is destroying civilization, and why we must radically change our attitudes towards the political system and mass media. Many articles I write rely on scholarly sources to discuss broader issues, such as American empire and corporate abuse, others analyze bias/propaganda in the mass media, and many are interview-based pieces designed to personalize and dramatize the horrifying costs of unfettered capitalism.
Occupy Wall street is Here to Stay
They keep trying, but they keep failing. The elites are doing everything in their power to crush the revolution. But they will continue to fail. Every time they crack down we just get bigger.After Bloomberg launched a most vicious, illegal and egregious raid on Liberty Square, we bounced right back. I spent all ...
The Crackdown Should Come As No Surprise
As I documented over a week ago, this was coming. The corporate elites have been gearing up to crush Occupy Wall Street. They wanted to take the battle right to the heart of the revolution, in Liberty Square. They launched a propaganda blitz, transformed Lower Manhattan into a sphere ruled by martial ...
There Are No Good Jobs to Occupy, Mr. Giuliani
It’s fitting that former mayor Giuliani, himself one of the elites responsible for America’s decline and the explosion of crony capitalism, would denounce Occupy Wall Street as consisting of lazy hippies. His accusations are false, exposing his embarrassing ignorance about the plight of ordinary Americans today, and he conveniently omits any talk ...
A Land Where the Law Protects the Powerful
What a day. It started with a hearing at Liberty Square—the people vs. Goldman Sachs. Victims came to tell of the suffering they have endured at the hands of this criminal firm. And after the verdict was reached, the victims were arrested while the guilty were protected by the police. ...
The Real Meaning of Occupy Wall Street
It doesn’t matter if Occupy Wall Street brings no practical changes to the world. It doesn’t matter if it fails to halt the onslaught of global corporate capitalism. If humanity does indeed annihilate itself through nuclear holocaust or climate collapse or the next boom-bust cycle—which will likely be even bigger ...
If you’re interested in knowing exactly what the elites running this country want you to think about Occupy Wall Street, pay attention to what the right wing propaganda machine has to say. Unlike the “liberal media” outlets, which are also owned by the six corporations that control the mass media and are ...
The Police are not the 99 Percent
I am sick and tired of hearing people say the police are one of us. They are not. They are the enemy. They do not exist to protect us. They don’t give a fuck about your safety or your rights. They are there to serve the corporate state. Sure there ...
The Revolution Cannot Be Stopped
When it was announced at 6 AM yesterday that the NYPD would not go through with evicting Occupy Wall Street I experienced one of those moments that make life transcendent. The crowd erupted in cheers. People hugged, high-fived, clapped, jumped up and down, pumped their fists in resistance, chanting “the ...
Occupy Wall Street and the History of Corporate Fascism
Humanity faces a daunting battle against corporate forces that have historically proved willing to employ any means necessary to preserve an evil system. The police brutality and corporate funding aimed at crushing Occupy Wall Street hint of the savagery unleashed by corporations in countries around the world over the past ...
The Police State and Occupy Wall Street
I wrote an article over a month ago exposing the Obama administration’s crackdown on civil liberties. The piece begins with the assertion that “the United States is still the freest country in the world.” I was curious to see how readers would react. A number of people commented that such a statement ...
The Mass Media’s Disgraceful Coverage of Occupy Wall Street
The mainstream media’s propaganda surrounding Occupy Wall Street has been truly breathtaking. For those who believe we have a right/left divide in the mass media, coverage by FOX News and The New York Times must shatter all such delusions. Let’s be clear on this. Both conservative and “liberal” media outlets are playing ...
There’s A Revolution Brewing, Occupy Wall Street Enters Week Two
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Max, a 33 year old activist from upstate New York who’s been camping out here in Zuccotti Park for days. “I’ve been to many protests before, but there’s never been such energy and promise as what I see here today. The revolution has ...
An Open Letter from Occupy Wall Street to All Americans and Progressive Media
This is an open letter to all Americans, and particularly to progressive magazines, Web Sites, TV programs, etc. Please spend most of your time focusing on the Occupy Wall Street protests. This is real, this is serious, and this will become a mass movement. I have been here every day ...
For months, every time I passed the New York Stock Exchange, I wondered why people weren’t rioting in the streets. Do Americans not realize that Wall Street has completely hijacked our government and economy? Do they not understand that the corporate elites who have trashed the global economy now have ...
Is Obama More Pro-Israel than Bush?
There has been much talk lately about President Obama’s “anti-Israel” policy, which apparently played a big role in New York’s recent special election resulting in a Republican victory by businessman Bob Turner in a Democratic stronghold. The Wall Street Journal has editorializedthat Obama “has built the most consistently one-sided diplomatic record against Israel ...
Never Forget: How Bush Lied Us Into War
Many Americans are vaguely aware that George W. Bush lied us into a war. Everyone knows about the infamous 16 words in his State of the Union speech and Valerie Plame. But few appreciate the full extent to which the administration brazenly manipulated intelligence, the United Nations, Congress, the media ...
The True Nature of the War in Afghanistan
The Afghanistan war is not the good war we should have fought instead of Iraq. It is not about making us safer from terrorism. It is not about suffocating the rising tide of Islamic extremism. It is not about spreading women’s rights. And it is certainly not about exporting democracy. ...
Shulamis Lieber, a social worker from New York City who works for a nonprofit called The Institute for Family Health and specializes in mental health for HIV patients, is on the front lines of America’s health care crisis. She has three years of experience in the field and sees first-hand how ...
Hurricane Irene caps a summer filled with unprecedented extreme weather events and ominous news about the climate, from historic dust bowls sweeping across America to revelations that a mass extinction unprecedented in human history is well under way. Yet, as with most of these events, if you followed the mass ...
The Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline proposal is one of the biggest tests of Barack Obama’s presidency. The major oil corporations, from Exxon Mobile to Koch Industries, are lobbying hard to compel the administration to issue a license for a new, massive pipeline that will transport tar sands oil ...
The United States is still the freest country in the world. I can write critically of the government and not feel threatened. I can walk down the street and not worry about being stopped by a cop for no reason. But our freedoms are in serious jeopardy. It’s well known ...
A new shocking HBO documentary, Mann v. Ford, offers a gut-wrenching account of the horrible consequences of corporate greed and government corruption. It is the story of the Ramapough Mountain Indians’ struggle to attain justice and secure safety for their community, which has been ravaged by Ford... Read more
Stark and Dreadful and Inescapable
Mike Judge’s 2006 film Idiocracy portrays a society that very closely resembles the world we live in today. The film is a satire in which the protagonist, Joe Bauers, participates in a military experiment gone awry that leaves him in a futuristic dystopia where everyone is unbelievably stupid. Natural selection has gone ...
Cross posted form thebloodycrossroads: Many Americans know that our government is run by and for the rich. But few understand just how dramatically the game is rigged. Investigative reporter and specialist in tax and economic issues David Cay Johnston describes in his 2007 book, Free Lunch, How the Wealthiest Americans enrich themselves ...
Cross posted from thebloodycrossroadsLike many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and the political process. The debt ceiling fiasco is yet another illustration of Obama’s failures, not just because it’s a betrayal of his base and the ...
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November 21st, 2011
Occupy Wall street is Here to Stay
They keep trying, but they keep failing. The elites are doing everything in their power to crush the revolution. But they will continue to fail. Every ...
November 16th, 2011
The Crackdown Should Come As No Surprise
As I documented over a week ago, this was coming. The corporate elites have been gearing up to crush Occupy Wall Street. They wanted to take the ...
November 8th, 2011
There Are No Good Jobs to Occupy, Mr. Giuliani
It’s fitting that former mayor Giuliani, himself one of the elites responsible for America’s decline and the explosion of crony capitalism, would denounce Occupy Wall Street as ...
November 4th, 2011
A Land Where the Law Protects the Powerful
What a day. It started with a hearing at Liberty Square—the people vs. Goldman Sachs. Victims came to tell of the suffering they have endured ...
October 31st, 2011
The Real Meaning of Occupy Wall Street
It doesn’t matter if Occupy Wall Street brings no practical changes to the world. It doesn’t matter if it fails to halt the onslaught of ...
October 24th, 2011
If you’re interested in knowing exactly what the elites running this country want you to think about Occupy Wall Street, pay attention to what the ...
October 18th, 2011
The Police are not the 99 Percent
I am sick and tired of hearing people say the police are one of us. They are not. They are the enemy. They do not ...
June 27th, 2011
For more work from Marc Adler check out his blog: http://thebloodycrossroads.com/“Before September 11 this was a great country, 100 percent beautiful, and I was treated ...
September 29th, 2011
The Mass Media’s Disgraceful Coverage of Occupy Wall Street
The mainstream media’s propaganda surrounding Occupy Wall Street has been truly breathtaking. For those who believe we have a right/left divide in the mass media, ...
November 4th, 2011
A Land Where the Law Protects the Powerful
What a day. It started with a hearing at Liberty Square—the people vs. Goldman Sachs. Victims came to tell of the suffering they have endured ...
September 1st, 2011
Hurricane Irene caps a summer filled with unprecedented extreme weather events and ominous news about the climate, from historic dust bowls sweeping across America to ...
June 14th, 2011
For more work from Marc Adler, check out his blog: http://thebloodycrossroads.com/ I recently watched an excellent HBO documentary called Burma Soldier about Myo Myint, a heroic dissident who ...
June 22nd, 2011
For more work from Marc Adler, check out his blog: http://thebloodycrossroads.com/Before I lost faith in the integrity of The New York Times, I used to read ...
August 5th, 2011
Cross posted from thebloodycrossroadsLike many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and ...
'The East'
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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