Monday, October 2, 2023

Tag: class war

Rich men versus the rest of us

The new country hit song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” embodies the GOP’s narrative of white male resentment. But collectivism and an embrace of racial diversity are far more powerful and popular.

The culture war is just as urgent as the class war

But winning the culture war is just as paramount as winning the class war—and is arguably more urgent in 2023.

The rich are different—richer than us and far greedier

There is a class war raging, one that’s being fought by the ruling class of billionaires and millionaires against the rest of us.

The escalating class war against Bernie Sanders

“If there is going to be class warfare in this country. It’s time that the working class of this country won that war and not just the corporate elite.”

Recent disasters reveal racial discrimination in FEMA aid process

But if the FEMA response to recent disasters is any indication, storm victims could face barriers in securing federal aid – especially if they're not white.

Correcting the record: What is really happening in Nicaragua?

Nicaragua is a class war turned upside down. The coup is failing, the truth is coming out, and should not be forgotten.

Missing in action

The poor remain missing in action in our American world, but not in my mind. Not in me.

What’s killing America’s middle class?

Just as progressives deliberately pushed public policies to create the middle class, so are today's economic royalists deliberately pushing plutocratic policies to destroy it.

Trump’s budget director declares class war on the American people

With these words, Mulvaney has brought that class war out into the open.

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Kids shouldn’t have to pay for school lunches

If education is free at the point of use, why aren’t school meals?

The Biden interview: the President talks about the Supreme Court, threats to democracy and...

In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy.

The slow-motion equivalent of a nuclear war?

A "new Cold War" on an ever-hotter planet

‘Unbelievably cruel’: GOP pushes astronomical cuts to education, housing, and food aid

"The same party who provided $2 trillion tax giveaways to the wealthy wants to slash funding for WIC, devastating women and children," said Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore.

The perilous path from western domination to de-dollarization

De-dollarization is a road fraught with many challenges.