Plutocracy

Arm in arm with the private prison industry, they’ve loosened federal restraints on private detention facilities

Our New Gilded Age and the Scandal of Constant Money Scandals

Then there are the dark money groups, which can receive financial contributions from any source, American or foreign.

We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem

American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal

Plutocracy

Jared Kushner is Poster Boy for Elite Universities’ Pay to Play Scandal

AFP

Kushner gained admission to Harvard University in 1998 after his father made a legal $2.5 million donation to the school

Inequality

The Survival of the Richest: The Real Wall

Nomi Prins

Money keeps flowing upward through banks and speculation, while the economic lives of those not at the top have largely remained stagnant

Climate Crisis

Capitalism vs. Socialism Is a False Choice: We need true democracy to Avoid self-extinction.

David Korten

( Yes! Magazine) – Economic power is—and always has been—the foundation of political power. Those who control the peoples’ means of living rule. In a democracy, however, each person must have a voice in the control and management of the means of their living. That requires more than a vote expressing a preference for which […]

Climate Crisis

Democracy and the Green New Deal Demand higher Taxes on Rich

Sam Pizzigati

Tie the U.S. corporate tax rate to the ratio between CEO and worker pay

Climate Change

The Main Drag on Saving Planet from Boiling? The Super-Rich

Sam Pizzigati

The United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait all just happen to rate among the world’s most unequal nations.

Plutocracy

Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers: “Let them Eat Debt!”

Chris Lefkow

By Chris Lefkow | – Washington, D.C. (AFP) – Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary fueled accusations Thursday that the US administration was deaf to the impact of the government shutdown after saying he didn’t understand why some federal workers were turning to food banks. Wilbur Ross shrugged off the impact of the shutdown — now […]