Ruling Class

In The Worst Of Times, The Billionaire Elite Plunder The Working Class

September 4, 2020 Nick Baker, Counterpunch. Educate! Pandemic, Recession, Ruling Class, Working Class

Since March, more than 58 million people in the U.S. have filed for unemployment. The Internal Revenue Service now predicts that the U.S. economy will have almost 40 million fewer jobs in 2021 than they predicted before the pandemic, as a result of the prolonged economic depression. As it becomes widely recognized that the economy is not going to “bounce right back” into full activity – even when coronavirus cases do eventually decline – and that the current depression will continue for a long time, companies are doing anything they can to drive their stock prices higher.

After 300 Years, It’s Time To End Capitalism, Not Reform It

August 10, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Capitalism, Pandemic, Recession, Ruling Class

The United States is facing multiple crises with no signs of improvement on the horizon - a deep recession, high unemployment, millions of people soon to be displaced from their homes, a failed healthcare system in the midst of a pandemic, the climate crisis and more. We speak with Professor Richard Wolff, an economist and the author of "Democracy at Work", about the history of capitalism and how it is inherently unstable. Prof. Wolff posits that the United States is now in a situation where capitalism is unlikely to survive. He describes why that is and the lessons we must learn from the fatal mistakes made when the US was in a similar situation one hundred years ago.

National Uprising Exposes Divisions In The Ruling Class…

August 9, 2020 Ari Saffran and John Peterson, Socialist Revolution. Strategize! Class war, Portland, Ruling Class, Working Class

For weeks on end, the George Floyd protests against racism and police violence shook America. Support for the movement overflowed all demographic boundaries as an estimated 10% of all American adults—some 25 million people—participated in at least one protest. However, although mass gatherings have continued unabated in some cities, in most of the country the torrential river has inevitably receded into its banks as it was deprived of a revolutionary outlet—for now. The revived BLM movement has been a treasure trove of practical experience for the millions who drove it forward.

On Contact: Analysis Of George Floyd Protests

June 14, 2020 Chris Hedges, RT. Resistance Report Chris Hedges, Misleaders, Rebellion2020, Ruling Class

On the show today, Chris Hedges discusses the George Floyd protests erupting in over 140 American cities with Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report. "And the black misleadership class seems to be more upset and angry about this than the white misleadership class. Sometimes it's funny. Activists have coined the term 'coopaganda,' to describe these funny gestures by cops and other authority figures to be kneeling. A gesture of submission to the demands but of course it's a diversion, a distraction designed to soften people attitude toward the rulers. And it shouldn't fool anyone.

Chris Hedges: The Treason Of The Ruling Class

June 1, 2020 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Democracy, oligarchy, Poverty, Ruling Class

The ruling elites no longer have legitimacy. They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state. What the Roman philosopher Cicero called a commonwealth, a res publica, a “public thing” or the “property of a people,” has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression on behalf of a global corporate oligarchy. We are serfs ruled by obscenely rich, omnipotent masters who loot the U.S. Treasury, pay little or no taxes and have perverted the judiciary, the media and the legislative branches of government to strip us of civil liberties and give them the freedom to commit financial fraud and theft. The loss of control over our system of rulership, the misuse of all democratic institutions, the electoral process and laws to funnel money upwards into to a handful of oligarchs while stripping us of power, ominously means that the ruling elites can no longer claim the right to have a monopoly on violence.

White Supremacy Is The Virus; Police Are The Vector

May 31, 2020 Nick Pemberton, Counterpunch. Strategize! Police, Ruling Class, System Change, Working Class

Tensions are high as Minneapolis police murdered a black man named George Floyd, not by gunshot, but by an agonizingly long kneel on his neck; which was not released for seven minutes, several of which the man was not breathing. Protest is a place to emerge into the collective and become unoriginal, to humble yourself in silence as others more aware with said experience lead the charge. However, writing should be the place for originality. A place where we solve the problems of theory that informs action. It is here where I would like to address a kind of Othering. This is not the Othering of making the minority docile and holy and martyred, but more so the Othering of whiteness and its discontents.

400 March And Rally To Tax Amazon As Momentum Grows Against Any State Ban On Taxing Big Business

March 5, 2020 Staff, Taxamazon.net Resist! Amazon, Ruling Class, Taxes

On Sunday March 1, 400 community members marched from the Cal Anderson Park fountain to the Amazon corporate campus as part of Seattle’s Tax Amazon movement. Against the backdrop of the Amazon Spheres, speakers talked about why there is such powerful momentum to tax Amazon and Seattle’s biggest corporations to fund social housing and Green New Deal programs.

The Golden Age Of White Collar Crime

February 21, 2020 Michael Hobbes, Huffpost.com Educate! Corruption, Ruling Class

OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, nearly every institution of American life has taken on the unmistakable stench of moral rot. Corporate behemoths like Boeing and Wells Fargo have traded blue-chip credibility for white-collar callousness. Elite universities are selling admission spots to the highest Hollywood bidder. Silicon Valley unicorns have revealed themselves as long cons (Theranos)...

Isn’t A Wealth Tax Common Sense?

February 21, 2020 By J. Bradford DeLong, Project-syndicate.org Create! Ruling Class, Taxes

The wealth-tax proposals being advanced by Democratic US presidential primary contenders clearly meets the public-finance standard for an ideal form of revenue generation. So why have these plans drawn such vehement criticism from so many who should be supporting them? BERKELEY – I was not surprised when leading Democratic primary contenders began endorsing a “wealth tax” along the lines of what has been proposed by my University of California, Berkeley...

UN Ruling Could Be A Game-Changer For Climate Refugees And Climate Action

February 11, 2020 By Yvonne Su, Theconversation.com Educate! Climate Change, Ruling Class, United Nations

The recent ruling by the United Nations that governments cannot return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by climate change is a potential game-changer — not just for climate refugees, but also for global climate action. The UN Human Rights Committee’s landmark ruling made clear that “without robust national and international efforts, the effects of climate change in receiving states may expose individuals to violations of their rights … thereby triggering the non-refoulementobligations of sending states.”

Dear Billionaires: Pitchforks Or A Fair Tax System?

January 30, 2020 By Chuck Collins, Inequality.org Educate! New Economy, Ruling Class, Taxes

World leaders, powerful corporate executives and influential activists will come together this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. At the top of the agenda is “stakeholder capitalism” – the idea that corporations should consider the interests of all stakeholders, including employees, customers and communities, not just those of their own shareholders.

The Davos World Economic Forum An Orgy Of Power And Money

January 27, 2020 Peter Koenig, Informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Finance and the Economy, Ruling Class

Friends, this year the WEF is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Forty-nine (49) of the insanely pompous – and every year more – WEF events took place in Davos, Switzerland. Just one, in 2002, after 9/11, was moved to New York City, paradoxically for ‘security reasons’ they said – the logic of such a move was as ludicrous as the WEF itself.

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