Mark Fiore: Thanksgiving for Billionaires
By Mark Fiore / Original to Scheerpost As we revel in the joy and wonder of Thanksgiving, let us be particularly thankful that a good number of billionaires are making…
All Eyes on Delaware—and a Promising Challenge to the World’s Richest Man
So Elon Musk may not be all that fabulously ‘brilliant’ after all.
You, Poor Voter, Must Stand Back and Watch as Billionaire Plutocrats Purchase Democracy
Regular people cannot, but the billionaire class can spend as much as their hearts desire to influence election outcomes.
How Can the Global South Escape the ‘Austerity Trap’?
The IMF's surprise concern for increasing inequality in the UK offers a chance to look at inequality facing the rest of the world.
Chomsky: Optimism of the Will
And the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Chris Hedges: Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy.
Hedges: The Triumph of Death
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
Hedges: How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
There are ways to defeat the billionaire class and many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in…
Hedges: America’s New Class War
Organized workers, often defying their timid union leadership, are on the march across the United States.
Nathan Gardels: Is China Serious About Its ‘Socialist Market’?
Robert Scheer discusses the paradoxical past, present and future of the rising superpower's economic model with a fellow veteran Beijing watcher.
The Everlasting Tax Shelter for Billionaires
A perverse loophole allows owners of profitable teams — and their heirs — to lower their tax bills by claiming huge paper losses.
Lee Camp: It’s Time for Major Wealth Redistribution — Yes, I Mean It.
No need to be all apologetic about it, either, since we would just be reclaiming the trillions taken by the billionaires.
Billionaires Gone Wild: Pandemic Profiteering By the Numbers
A running tally of how the pandemic has been increasing inequity at a fantastic rate.
Global Report: The Richest Have Already Recouped Pandemic Losses, While Poorest Billions Will Need a Decade to Do the Same
On the opening day of the World Economic Forum, new study shows the 1,000 wealthiest people recovered completely in just nine months while the world’s poorest are likely to take…
Blueprint: How to Beat the Pro-Charter Billionaires
Despite being outspent 3-1, education activists flipped a school board to take their district back from outside privatizers.