A huge number of issue based struggles have sprung up in recent years, building new alliances and activists. What the Occupy Wall Street has done is to build this large space in which all these movements can come together, with new energy, new methods and with new creativity. This is the excitement of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. It not only has the legacy of the 60's but also the owes its many of form and methods to Tahrir Square and the movements in the Arab world.

The Occupy Wall Street has changed the discourse in the US, bringing out the exclusions of 99% of the people and the total inequality that now prevails. It has brought in different kinds of movements and created a huge oppositional space. The challenge in the days ahead is how to bring together all these elements in a coherent way without losing the vitality of the movement.

Wired has reported that a virus has hit the US drone fleet operating out of Creech Airbase in Nevada. This has not stopped the Predator and Reaper drones from operating in Afghanistan, West Asia and now also North Africa, the areas the US considers as “war zones” – a shadowy war in which the ratio of high valued targets to actual “kills” are now (2009-2010 figures) running at 1: 147.

I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I said had to be repeated by hundreds of people so others could hear (a.k.a. “the human microphone”), what I actually said at Liberty Plaza had to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech.

Scores of youngsters have come out in streets in the US against to "express a feeling of mass injustice," mainly in the economic realm. Popular filmmaker Michael Moore spoke to the protesters at Liberty Plaza, New York. In absence of loudspeaker technique of "crowd mic" was used during the speech. Courtesy: Reader Supported News

The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade -- much of it valid -- but nobody can deny its record of excellence in thwarting its own Terrorist plots.

Since we didn’t know that U.S. special operations forces were secretly conducting Pakistan missions in such numbers, it might be worth asking what else we don’t know.