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Archives: Plutocracy
What is Political Revolution and Can Bernie Sanders Deliver?
By Ali R. Abootalebi | (Informed Comment) | - - The 2016 American presidential election can prove to be a turning point in the development of American politics. This is not because…
7 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About The Ultra Rich
By Scott Klinger | ( Inequality.org ) | - - New data provides a glimpse into the lives of the richest of rich—how the 400 highest earners make their money and pay…
What’s A Rigged Economy? How the Rich keep you Poor
Dena Takruri | (AJ+ Video) | - - "Income inequality is rising and working Americans feel like they aren't getting ahead. Welcome to the rigged economy. Here's how it works." AJ+: "What's…
The $10 Billion Contest: Money and the 2016 US Presidential Elections
By Jack Rasmus | ( TeleSur ) | - - Poll after public opinion poll in the US today consistently show that US voters overwhelmingly share the opinion that big money billionaires…
Koch Brothers Declare War On Electric Cars
Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Ana Kasparian & Ben Mankiewicz | (The Young Turks Video) | - - "This is the election where we're finally focusing on the corrosive affect of money in…
Exxon-Mobil’s past Crimes against the Earth are nothing Compared to its Present Ones
By Bill McKibben | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Here’s the story so far. We have the chief legal representatives of the eighth and 16th largest economies on Earth (California and…
Why Americans are Angry: The Minimum Wage Trap
By Peter Van Buren | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality, and when other candidates speak about the minimum wage and food stamps, what…
Hot Sugar Daddies Of The 2016 Election
Francesca Fiorentini | (AJ+ Video Report) | - - "Political sugar daddies have a strong grip on the 2016 election. These billionaires know what they want, and what they want is candidates…
Undertaxed: Top 62 Billionaires doubled wealth to $1.76 Trillion since 2010
By Sam Pizzigati | (Inequality.org) | - - Our world’s billionaires don’t merit either their billions, the Oxfam economist Didier Jacobs suggests, or the right to claim we’re all living in a…
Rubio wants to give each millionaire $220K by Eliminating Taxes on Stock Earnings
Chuck Collins | Inequality.org | - - Bad tax policy ideas never die, they just get recycled. The latest retread is GOP candidate Marco Rubio’s proposal to entirely eliminate taxes on capital…
Poll: Most Americans Want Redistribution Of Wealth
Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | - - "Now that Bernie Sanders knows that people will show up and vote for him in large numbers, the…
Fearing the Bern, Billionaire Bloomberg Threatens to Buy Election for Establishment
By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - Former New York City mayor indicates willingness to spend "at least $1 billion"... especially if Sanders bumps Clinton. Is the…
Flint’s water crisis is a blatant example of environmental injustice
Robert D. Bullard | (The Conversation) | - - Many observers see race and class as factors in Flint, Michigan’s drinking water crisis. Earlier this week Flint’s mayor, Karen Weaver, said, “It’s…
Arabs Caught between Trump and ISIL: Casino Capitalism driving backward Identity Politics Worldwide
Maged Mandour | ( OpenDemocracy) | - - Backwards looking politics is a malaise affecting both the west and east. It breeds violence as global elites clamber to maintain their grip on…
Sanders: Michigan Governor Must Resign over Flint Lead-Poisoning Crisis
By Common Dreams staff | ( Commondreams.org) | - - Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday called on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to resign for his administration’s failure to…
GOP Congress plans $100 bn. tax cut as Xmas Present for Corporations
By Jessica Schieder | (Otherwords.org) | - - This year-end tax package is a grab bag of gifts for corporations and a lump of coal for working families. Given the commitment House…
Is Corporate Media a danger to Society? Coverage of Trump v. Sanders
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - ABC World News has given one minute to Bernie Sanders this year (actually, it is just 20 seconds). It has given 81 minutes…
Deepening Inequality Driving US Middle Class into Oblivion
By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - "The hollowing of the middle has proceeded steadily for four decades, and it may have reached a tipping point," Pew Research Center…