Tag: plutocracy

Our latest slam-dunk evidence: the record of the decade since the Wall Street financial crash ushered in the Great Recession.

Trump has consistently sold out the blue-collar, socially conservative whites who brought him to power, while pursuing policies to enrich his fellow plutocrats. What might he do to keep the "base" on his side?

It’s time to “strike back” – not against wealthy individuals, but against oligarchy itself.

Golf is Trump.

The wealthiest administration in American history is primed to make even more money for its already well-to-do staff.

Idiots and charlatans, the handmaidens of death, lure us into the abyss.

The obscene transfer of wealth and income to the plutocrats won't end until we demand a return to the Commons, where we work as a society rather than allow predatory plutocratic individuals to control us.

The White House wants to see local cops cracking down on poor people who break federal laws on immigration. Why not a crackdown on the rich who scoff at tax laws?

The religion of inequality -- of money and power -- has failed us; its gods are false gods.

“Just as democracy and peace are mutually reinforcing, perpetual war and perpetual corruption are mutually reinforcing. The concentrated power involved in conducting war corrupts; corruption undermines democracy, the surest way to peace.”