Tag: United States
As US squanders $728.5 billion/ yr on Pentagon, China captures 65%...
The US Republican Party and their plus-one, Sen. Joe Manchin, are preventing the US from becoming the dominant automaker in the world in this decade by consistently shooting down the green energy and transportation provisions.
US investment firms prop up ad revenue for Russian propaganda sites
“Investors need to also think through how their money is being used, where that money is being invested, and how they can contribute to isolating Russia and Russian companies.”
All American presidents have lied – the question is why and...
If presidents must sometimes lie to defend important political values, then, it seems as though the good president must be both able to lie and able to lie well.
Tax-dodging billionaire dynasties could cost US $8.4 trillion
Over the next few decades, the richest American families could avoid paying about $8.4 trillion in taxes, or more than four times...
500K jobs lost, starvation looms as US holds Afghan funds hostage
As a report published Wednesday revealed the loss of over 500,000 jobs since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan last August, critics...
The United States of tax havens
The United States, where countless corrupt billionaires and dictators have stashed their loot, is not a single tax haven, but many separate tax havens.
Press Freedom is under threat in the land of its birth
Hong Kong looks freer than the U.S. these days.
How can America really be exceptional?
Can America still follow its principles of liberty and equality but have a far broader set of free social services (education and healthcare like the fire and police departments)? I think that it can. And if it does, it will have the sort of society that we want – not an oligopoly or crony capitalist one.
America’s widening inequality of place
This inequality is unsustainable. It’s literally tearing America apart.