New figures from the Institute for Policy Studies show that, despite a pandemic that has stunted the economy for months, America’s billionaire class is becoming richer than ever, adding nearly $700 billion to their fortune since the ...
“It’s not normal for a civilization to be dominated by plutocrats and secretive government agencies and to only get offered the choice between two authoritarian corporate warmongers in a pretend election to a position of ...
Adequate housing, healthcare, food, public services, education, mass transit, health & safety standards, and environmental protections are the prerequisites for a humane democracy. (Common Dreams) Economic indicators – data points, trends, and micro-categories – are ...
In January 2020, the NASDAQ stock market’s index stood just under 10,000. In the March crash, it fell to 7,000. As of July 10, 2020, it hit 10,600. The U.S. government’s economic policies produced a ...
Comedian and former talk show host Jon Stewart directs Irresistible, a new feature film that explores the role of money in politics. Teaming up with his one-time “The Daily Show” colleague Steve Carell, Jon Stewart’s ...
Giridharadas called out MSNBC and other establishment forces for behaving “like out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) In an appearance on MSNBC Sunday morning just hours after Sen. Bernie Sanders’ decisive victory in the Nevada ...
Despite the propaganda, the media hype, the Hollywood movies and the endless talk about American democracy, the U.S. is not actually a democracy. It is not really a republic either, it’s a plutocracy. Do you ...
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark gives a talk on the “American plutocracy” and the one ruling party, “the war party”, that governs the U.S.
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