The Democratic Promise of Occupy Wall Street
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The Democratic Promise of Occupy Wall Street
Monday 28 November 2011
by: William Greider, The Nation | News Analysis
William Greider
William Greider, a prominent political journalist and author, has been
a reporter for more than 35 years for newspapers, magazines and
television. Over the past two decades, he has persistently challenged
mainstream thinking on economics.
For 17 years Greider was the National Affairs Editor at Rolling Stone
magazine, where his investigation of the defense establishment began.
He is a former assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, where
he worked for fifteen years as a national correspondent, editor and
columnist. ... ...
He is the author of the national bestsellers One World, Ready or Not,
Secrets of the Temple and Who Will Tell The People. In the award-
winning Secrets of the Temple, he offered a critique of the Federal
Reserve system. Greider has also served as a correspondent for six
Frontline documentaries on PBS, including "Return to Beirut," which
won an Emmy in 1985.
Greider's most recent book is The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to
A Moral Economy. In it, he untangles the systemic mysteries of
American capitalism, details its destructive collisions with society
and demonstrates how people can achieve decisive influence to reform
the system's structure and operating values.
Raised in Wyoming, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, he graduated from
Princeton University in 1958. He currently lives in Washington, DC.