A new congressional report commissioned by Bernie Sanders finds that the 1 percent now own one-third of all wealth, while the bottom half of Americans hold only 2 percent. It’s another sign of the slide into oligarchy that Sanders has warned about for years.
Source: Bernie Is Right: Extreme Wealth Concentration Has Turned America Into an Oligarchy
In the first of a two-part conversation, the two intellectuals discuss the shift in the U.S. and U.K. in the late 1970s toward neoliberalism, an ideology that Chomsky says claims to increase freedom while actually increasing tyranny.
By John Scales Avery | (Inter Press Service) | – – COPENHAGEN, (IPS) – As many observers around the world …
Source: Can Americans get back their Democracy from the Oligarchy? | Informed Comment
Jane Mayer, author of “Dark Money,” tells Salon how billionaires funded the radical right, remade American politics
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