Tag: wealth inequality
A quiet conspiracy of billionaires
For decades, the Koch brothers have led a secret coup for the billionaire class.
Three more reasons for wealth-deprived Americans to take to the streets
The rest of America has been left behind, but their voices are getting louder.
A shiny new tool to pad profits: Stealing
One entire group being victimized by corporate thieves are the 4.3 million Americans who make up our “tipped workforce.”
A regime of austerity versus the common good
Today's Powers that Be (economic, political and media) are wrongly forcing a regime of austerity on our nation.
Thousands of teachers and staff on strike across Oklahoma and Kentucky,...
"Stop the war on public education!"
The oligarchs’ ‘guaranteed basic income’ scam
The longer the elites keep us in darkness with their ideological tricks and empty moralism, the longer we refuse to mobilize to break their grip on power, the worse it will get.
A 2 percent financial wealth tax would provide a $12,000 annual...
It's not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and artistic pursuits for American households with an...
Canadian doctors protest their recent pay increase
A group that represents doctors and advocates for public health in Quebec is asking that the money instead be allocated to the health-care system at large.
People are showing they’ve had enough
People can only be squeezed so much before they rise up and say, “enough!”
Corporations are spending their tax cut – on themselves
Instead of creating jobs, big businesses are using their tax cut bonanza to hike stock value and CEO pay.
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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.
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.
Martial Law in the United States
Trump will reverse the equation and use martial law to overcome public protest.
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.