Thursday, August 14, 2025

Tag: inequality

‘CEOs, not working people, are causing inflation’: Report shows soaring executive...

"When you look at those numbers and at CEOs trying to blame workers for inflation, it just doesn't add up," said the secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO.

Do you need luck to get really rich?

A little ruthlessness, Elon reminds us, can go a long way.

The secret to the GOP’s assault on your rights

This is not a battle of left vs. right. It is a battle between democracy and autocracy.

How greedy corporations fuel inflation

“Companies make any kind of excuse to raise prices on everything."

Keeping workers poor is bad for business

At America's biggest low-wage employers, chief executives now pocket 670 times more than their workers.

Report warns taxpayer money is fueling ‘pandemic greed grab’ by US...

Amazon, which has reported $10.3 billion in recent federal contracts, paid CEO Andy Jassy 6,474 times more than it paid its median worker last year.

White makes ‘far’ right!!

Hey, Captain Ron, did you forget your ancestral roots? Shame on you!!!

The height of folly: Safeboxes in the sky

Can’t our society find something better to do than give billionaires playpens over a quarter-mile up?

Bezos praises Manchin for blocking Biden’s corporate tax hike

"Biden's plan was to make billionaires and corporations pay their fair share in taxes, and use that money to help families," said one critic. "Of course a billionaire owner of a $1.1 trillion corporation doesn't like that."

America unmasked

Did the long pandemic spawn a new kind of repression?

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Pentagon plan reveals standing military force for rapid deployment in US cities

Leaked documents show Trump administration proposal to create a permanent National Guard “quick reaction force” to quell domestic unrest, raising concerns over legality, militarization, and civil liberties.

Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...

Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.

Current nitrate level EPA deems safe fails to reflect birth outcomes, other potential health...

The study said the current level of nitrate that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deems safe fails to reflect birth outcomes and other potential health risks.

Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime

President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.

UK surgeon says Israeli forces using Gaza children as ‘target practice’ as starvation crisis...

A British doctor and major humanitarian groups accuse Israeli soldiers of intentionally targeting children near aid sites, as reports show more than 100 children have died from hunger during Israel’s siege of Gaza.