Friday, June 20, 2025

Tag: wealth equality

Can Brazil convince the world to tax billionaire wealth?

The ambitious goal: To shove the case for taxing the wealth of our world’s wealthiest onto the world’s political stage.

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and you. Which one pays taxes?

Leaked IRS data shows just how little billionaires pay in taxes.

New Analysis reveals how little the top .001% pay in taxes

“Looks like the biggest tax story of the year, if not the decade.”

A third of U.S. billionaire wealth gains since 1990 have come...

U.S. billionaire pandemic profit balloons to $4.56 trillion, a 55 percent increase.

Tax evasion and the 1%

“The richest 1% of U.S. households don’t report 21% of their income.”

Whose rights matter in pandemic America?

Not those of poor Americans, that’s for sure...

The year of cheating the poor

The poorest among us are being cheated. They're being cheated out of the opportunity to share in the great prosperity to which they and their parents and grandparents all contributed.

‘Yes, exactly,’ say progressives after Pence warns democrats will ‘make rich...

“You have to be all sorts of twisted to think ‘making poor people more comfortable’ is a bad thing.”

“It’s going to be a billionaire Thanksgiving.” Wealth of US richest...

“The increases in billionaire wealth continue to defy gravity in the real economy where millions have lost their jobs, health, and livelihoods.”

It’s futile… We’re FEUDAL!!

If the economy crashes those FAT CATS can live off of their savings and bonuses for years... while YOU start selling apples on street corners!

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Israel accused of using aid as bait as over 300 Palestinians killed at food...

Palestinians seeking flour and water have become targets, with Israeli forces killing hundreds at so-called humanitarian aid points backed by the U.S.

Martial Law in the United States

Trump will reverse the equation and use martial law to overcome public protest.

Lessons from Vieques: Resisting US militarism, building unity

Our only hope is to learn from and center the past and present struggle in Vieques and everywhere else bearing the brunt of U.S. militarism, to clearly understand where our enemies converge.

America’s new Industrial Revolution

Will Donald Trump will be remembered ruefully as our country’s very own King Canute, who used the full force of presidential power in a failed, futile effort to halt the tides of technological change?

Conservation innovations: How sustained resistance is saving one of the Earth’s most critical rainforests...

As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.