US Attacks in Venezuela and Greenland Lay Groundwork for Billionaire Fiefdoms
Trump’s foreign interventions may pave the way for techno-fascist city-states to seize sovereignty.
America’s Wealthiest Are Getting Even Richer
The wealthiest 15 billionaires in America saw their wealth grow over 30 percent in 2025.
Billionaire’s Mouthpiece Searches for Reasons to Avoid Taxing Billionaires
The Washington Post, which serves the interests of its mega-billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, unsurprisingly thinks taxing billionaire wealth is a bad idea.
Top 15 US Billionaires Gained Nearly $1 Trillion in Wealth in Trump’s First Year
The US has 935 billionaires, roughly a dozen of whom have jobs within the Trump administration.
Ralph Nader: How Some Courageous Super Rich Can Save Our Country from Trump’s Expanding Dictatorship
On their minds is the well-being and freedoms of millions of their fellow Americans, whose lives are being cruelly and viciously wrecked by Trump, as he destroys the federal civil…
Sanders Backs Push for Billionaire Tax in California as Newsom Raises Money to Fight It
“Yes: We need a wealth tax on billionaires,” said US Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth
With the arrival of our first trillionaire fast approaching, America’s democracy is hanging by a thread.
Global System ‘Rigged for the Wealthy’ Delivers World With ‘More Billionaires Than Ever’
By Jon Queally Republished from Common Dreams A new assessment by the international wealth management giant UBS this week shows that the number of billionaires in the world has reached…
Wealth Taxes Will Barely Slow Inequality. So Why Do the Super-Rich Resist Them?
A 2 percent wealth tax is like shaving off a fraction of a spire from a large cathedral, says economist Nancy Folbre.
From AI to TikTok to TV, This Pro-Israel Billionaire Is Expanding Power in US
One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”
Fake ‘Populism’: How Trump’s Billionaire Admin Serves the Rich, and Hurts Everyone Else
Donald Trump is portrayed as a “populist” committed to average working-class people, but his policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else. His administration includes 13 billionaires —…
‘Another Unqualified Billionaire’: Senate Confirms McMahon as Education Secretary
"The more the president stacks his administration with eccentric billionaires, the further the system gets rigged against working people, seniors, and students," argued one critic.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Musk & the Myth of USAID
By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News What hath the MAGA movement wrought? I doubt the archest of Donald Trump’s arch-enemies ever imagined that in his second term he would take…
Democrats to the Working Class: Good Riddance!
Startling Advice from Fareed Zakaria
Only Billionaires Get the Benefit of the Doubt
By Talia Mullin / Original to ScheerPost Billionaires including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pinchai, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk were seated in front…