Capitalism

You Are Closer to the Street Than Becoming a…

Are you temporarily embarrassed? You may not realize it, but you could be a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Do you plan to someday in the future have more money? Are you concerned that your taxes are too high, because someday you might pay too much tax? Do you ride the bus only because this year you

Corpocracy

Citizen-less Democracy:

A Governing system where all the important decisions of government are made to suit the interests and values the wealthiest and most powerful Americans and the corporations they own.

Corpocracy

Leon Has Got to Go

As the richest man in the world assaults the US government without our consent, we must recognize the situation as class war from above — and fight back. His visible and concerted project of destroying that government while flouting basic legal and democratic controls on his power is a brazen insult to the country. Fighting

Dreams of the Rich

It is Elon Musk who is now running the…

It may be Trump, that is, who sits in the Oval Office, and it may be Trump who takes to television every few days to sign yet another executive order seeking to punish and humiliate trans people. But it is Musk who controls government operations and federal spending, and so it is Musk who is

Democracy

Myths of Our Childhood

One of the many myths drilled into Americans’ minds from a young age is the noble, enlightened ideals of the Founding Fathers. Ask any schoolchild why the US Constitution was written, and they’re likely to rattle off any number of platitudes and cliches. They might say “to defend our freedom” or “to protect democracy.” In

Corporate Greed

On Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.[2][3] Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. Whether we believe that