Tag: inequality
Return of the railroad robber baron
If you don’t pay me $300 million, the new CEO at CSX is threatening, I’ll let your workers keep their jobs.
The charities making inequality worse
A growing number of executives at America’s ‘do-good’ nonprofits are doing much too good – for themselves – at paycheck time.
The new trade agenda: Deals that promote equality rather than inequality
These are the sort of rules that we should be looking to include in future trade agreements.
Morbid inequality: Now just SIX men have as much wealth as...
As inequality ravages the American and world economies, denial grows right along with it.
Inherit the hypocrisy
Look how far we have actually fallen as a nation, as a culture for that matter.
A new rationalization for riches
Activists today are exploring encouraging pathways to a New Economy that sustains both our planet and greater equality.
The problem isn’t Trump, it’s bigger
While we resist, we also need to promote a positive agenda of what we want to see.
Billionaires arrive on private jets to solve inequality, while African children...
To really help the poorest countries, we need to do less: less military, less debt, and less corporate farming.
Waging class war in comfort
Do the corporate chiefs now parading into the new Trump administration see the United States as just another enterprise – to fleece?
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.