Plutocracy

Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster Five Academics Who Unleashed the “Demon” of Geopolitical Power By Alfred W. McCoy ( Tomdispatch.com ) – As Washington’s leadership fades more quickly than anyone could have imagined and a new global order struggles to take shape, a generation of leaders has crowded onto the world […]

Climate Change

All our Dystopias Now: Climate Crisis, Plutocracy and Hyper-Nationalism

John Feffer

(Tomdispatch.com) – The mid-term elections are over, and the Democrats have regained the House, but the rest of American political reality remains intact. Meanwhile, the campaigns barely touched on the most important issues of our time: war, climate change, and the fracturing of the international community. So, let’s consider these larger issues from a different […]

Inequality

Report: World’s Richest Got 20% Richer in 2017

TeleSur

A report published recently by Swiss bank UBS shows the world’s wealthiest are now worth $9.1 trillion, enough to spend $1 million per day for 30,000 years. In 2017, more than 2,000 billionaires around the world became even wealthier, pushing their collective fortunes to historic levels. According to a report recently published by Swiss bank […]

Plutocracy

5 Red Flashing Signals of the Great Trump Crash

Nomi Prins

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Here we are in the middle of the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency and if there’s one thing we know by now, it’s that the leader of the free world can create an instant reality-TV show on geopolitical steroids at will. True, he’s not polished in his demeanor, but he […]

Featured

Whitey on the Moon Again?

Juan Cole

The likelihood is that the government will pay for the lunar space station with borrowed money, making it enormously expensive

Inequality

Why the Supreme Court’s Gutting of Unions dooms US to Deeper Poverty, Inequality

Sam Pizzigati

The Supreme Court’s decision in Janus will leave the United States still more unequal.

Featured

The American March to Inequality: Why the UN Alston Report Alarms the Trump Plutocrats

Juan Cole

The US would require a social revolution to even resemble France or Germany

Inequality

The New American Aristocrats: Growing Inequality threatens Democracy (Atlantic Video)

The Atlantic Youtube Channel

The Atlantic writer Matthew Stewart argues 9.9% of the population “takes wealth out of productive activities and invests it in walls.”

Plutocracy

The Koch Brothers’ secret Coup on behalf of the Billionaire Class

Jim Hightower

The Koch brothers are oil magnates and billionaire GOP funders. They believe that their great wealth entitles them to rule over the many. For decades, they’ve been running a surreptitious assault on the rules that protect the majority of us from their abuse. From whacking our voting rights to busting unions, their intent is nothing […]