Inequality

Plutocrats scheme to deprive millions of Health Care Insurance

Trump “presidency” as Ponzi Scheme: Madoff in the White House?

John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Here and abroad, Trump’s wealthy backers understand that his populist rhetoric is a masquerade. In 1993, I arrived one fall evening in the Romanian city of Cluj. The railway station was mysteriously full of people, and the city outside was crowded and frenetic. I was […]

Bernie Sanders

Bannon must go, but after that, Protesters should listen to Bernie

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Steve Bannon ran, and is still likely pulling the strings at, Breitbart, the “Stormfront” in a business suit with a skinny tie. Bannon once characterized it as enabling what he called the “alt right,” by which he meant a slightly more presentable version of the skinheads, […]

Inequality

3 mn will own 70% of US Wealth generated by 320 mn by 2021

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TeleSur | – – Even though the rising inequality is a global phenomenon, it is especially pronounced in the United States, the study noted. According to a new study, the 1 percent in the U.S. will control 70 percent of the nation’s private wealth by the year 2021, according to a study by the Boston […]

Inequality

Women’s National Strike over Pay inequities, Glass Ceiling

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CBS News | Video News Clip | — “Women worldwide walked off the job Wednesday to protest and demand equality. Anna Werner reports from Alexandria, Virginia, which had to close its schools since so many teachers joined the protest.” CBS Evening News: “Women wear red, go on strike for “Day Without a Woman””

Donald Trump

Trump’s ‘nationalism’ is just the Globalism of the 1%

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By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Donald Trump is a worldly fellow. He travels the globe on his private jet. He’s married to a Slovene and divorced from a Czech. He doesn’t speak any other languages, but hey, he’s an American, so monolingualism is his birthright. His fortune depends in large part […]

Books

Pulitzer Prize-Winner Michael Chabon Slams Israeli Occupation of Palestinians

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By Joe Dyke | ( Your Middle East | – – American author Michael Chabon’s Jewish identity has long been central to his work. From 2001’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” — the story of two Jewish cousins before, during and after World War II — to 2007’s “The Yiddish Policemen’s […]

Inequality

7 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About The Ultra Rich

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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 their taxes. Each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) publishes data on the collective income of the 400 taxpayers who report the most […]

Inequality

Deepening Inequality Driving US Middle Class into Oblivion

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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 says A closer look at the shift out of the middle reveals that “a deeper polarization is underway in the American economy,” says […]