Tag: money
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Smedley Butler: “War is a Racket”
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Butler was, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history; so I think we should listen to what he has…
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The Christian Communist Manifesto
Hi, In the past, I’ve argued in that Karl Marx unfairly gets a bad reputation for simply writing down what most people already knew. Marx’s ideas on wage slavery, capital, exploitation, and private property were nothing new and are, in fact, centuries old. It’s time to read the writings of the True Levellers (a.k.a. Diggers)…
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Confirmed: The U.S. Wants Venezuela’s Oil
Let’s get right to it. The U.S. has never been interested in democracy or the freedom of other nations. History proves it so. I recently published the U.S. embassy cables outlining their 5-point strategy in Venezuela: 1) Strengthening Democratic Institutions2) Penetrating Chavez’ Political Base3) Dividing Chavismo4) Protecting Vital US business5) Isolating Chavez internationally Here’s the…
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The Media’s Preference for Profit over Democracy
Hi, Back in 2017, the New York Times published an article titled: CNN Had a Problem. Donald Trump Solved It – Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create. The NYT journalist interviewed the president of CNN, Jeff Zucker, where he admitted to the world that he wanted to incorporate the ESPN style of…
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Confirmed: Industry Self-regulation is a Myth
In October of 2008, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, admitted to Congress and the viewing public that free markets cannot regulate themselves. This is imporanat because I think it may have been missed by the great majority. Here we have an admission by one of the highest ranking members of our society…
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A Literal Bird’s Eye View of the IMF and the World Bank
Hi, Here’s a fun fact for you: Every president of the World Bank has always been from the United States and the director of the IMF has always been European. Pretty sweet deal, don’t you think? Gives a new spin on the word “International” and “World”. And just for fun, care to guess where these…
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Medium Income and Poverty in the United States
There is a basic belief in America that if you work hard, you can support yourself and your family. I have always argued that this is a myth for a great many of us. There is a simple proof: Median Household Income — the income of every resident of that house that is over the…
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The 9.9% – The New American Aristocracy
From The Atlantic, June 2018 issue: Let’s talk first about money—even if money is only one part of what makes the new aristocrats special. There is a familiar story about rising inequality in the United States, and its stock characters are well known. The villains are the fossil-fueled plutocrat, the Wall Street fat cat, the…
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United Way Study: 44% of Americans Cannot Make Ends Meet
Hi, In October 16, 2005, Citigroup came out with a brochure for investors called “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances”. The brochure was an honest assessment of the world where it explained that there is no such animal as “the U.S. consumer” or “the UK consumer”, or indeed the “Russian consumer”… There are rich consumers,…
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A Brief History of Citizens United and Corporate Power
Let’s talk Citizens United and Corporate Power. Citizens United is a symptom of a bigger, longstanding threat: for decades the largest corporations have been building power over our political process. The 1960s and 1970s were some of the most trans-formative years in American history. The 1960s saw the rise of social movements across the nation…