‘Tax these moochers’: Top 1% dodge $163 billion in taxes each year
“We can no longer tolerate a rigged tax system that allows the top 1% to avoid $163 billion in taxes that they owe,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Former CIA Director Agrees to Plead Guilty to Leaking Classified Material
David Petraeus was responsible for disclosing the identities of covert agents and leaving classified material in unauthorized and unsecured locations. The former CIA Director plead guilty this week to revealing classified information to his former mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell.
Washington’s Military Addiction
But don’t bother to blame the politicians and national security nabobs in Washington for this. They’re addicts. They can’t help themselves.
New Year’s Resolutions: Ten Ways to Combat Upward Redistribution of Income
The one percent pretend that their good fortune was the result of the natural workings of the market. Is it possible to change the structure of the market so that money doesn’t continue to flow upward?
A whopping 75% of FTC officials have revolving door conflicts with tech corporations and...
Corporations have little to fear from an FTC whose leaders held or take jobs helping corporations fight the agency.
Record corporate profits, record stock buybacks, and the plan to tax them
As corporations blow record sums repurchasing their stock to inflate CEO pay, Congress is advancing a tax aimed at curbing this harmful practice.
How to reinvent the European left
Europeans want to upend politics as usual and the far right is still rising. If the left doesn’t come up with an unusual politics of its own, it will be upended as well.
Sanders demands refunds for seniors hit by Medicare premium hike
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday demanded refunds for seniors who have been hit by the 2022 Medicare premium hike after federal health...
How can the US accuse any nation of violating ‘rules-based international order’?
The implication is that if Congressional approves an illegal war or act of war, that makes it legit.
The art of shaping memory
How best to describe the recently completed allied commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France? Two words come...