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Showing posts with label oligarchic democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oligarchic democracy. Show all posts
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Paul Krugman — Challenging the Oligarchy [Review of Robert Reich's Saving Capitalism]

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Paul Krugman reviews Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few  by Robert B. Reich The New York Review of Books Challenging the Oligarc...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Michael Kirkwood — The End of Communism in Russia Meant the End of Democracy in the West – Alexander Zinoviev

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Alexander Zinoviev, along with Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov, was one of the three great intellectual giants who became dissidents during the l...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Peter Radford — Plutocracy?

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The 2012 Page, Bartels, and Seawright paper makes interesting reading. I came across it via the Krugman blog and recommend it to you all. ...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Trump Cast as Perfect Ringleader of Corporate Media Circus — Jessica Desvarieux interviews Robert W. McChesney

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Despite outspending the world in elections, U.S. voter turnout is historically low because of media's focus on the interest of the elit...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

John Helmer — New Cat’s Paw Award – Financial Times Makes Igor Zyuzin Hero For Standing Up To Vladimir Putin

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In publishing on Russia, there comes a time when a writer, journalist, bank analyst, television presenter, or academic produces something s...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Don Quijones — New TTIP Leak Confirms EU Proposal Is Covert Attack Against Basic Democratic Values

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According to a leaked European Commission proposal in the ongoing EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations,...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Money in politics - links

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And they call this democracy? AlterNet Koch Brothers Endorse Scott Walker For President Stephen Rosenfeld The Richest 0.01 Percent o...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Glenn Greenwald — Political Ignorance of Americans is Stunning - Glenn Greenwald. Thanks Corporate Media!

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Why the US has oligarchic "democracy." Most people in the US are not politically engaged and many of those that do are brainwashe...
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Monday, April 6, 2015

Ellen Brown — How America Became an Oligarchy

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The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. . . . You have owners. ...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

Mike Krieger — Peter Thiel Blasts: The American Political System Is "Not A Democracy Or Constitutional Republic"

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Libertarians coming to the conclusion that it may not be just government that's the problem but government capture by large firms and ol...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Steve M. — America's Oligarchs Want It All, And They Want It Now

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Oligarchic "democracy" and the 2016 presidential. Picking the "right" candidate (pun intended). Plutocracy going for ful...
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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Tomgram — Engelhardt, Is a New Political System Emerging in This Country?

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This is not only a symptomatic piece. It is being reposted around the net on left, right and center blogs. It seems to have touched a vita...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Bill Allison and Sarah Harkins — Fixed Fortunes: Biggest corporate political interests spend billions, get trillions

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Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Andrew Prokop — Jeb Bush, to donors: Stop giving me so much money so quickly

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Money certainly won't be sufficient to hand Bush the nomination — questions about his appeal to the conservative base and actual voters...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Sam McElwee — The rich own our democracy, new evidence suggests

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Two new studies by political scientists offer compelling evidence that the rich use their wealth to control the political system and that t...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Phil Butler — The New Militarism: Basking in the Arms of a New Arms Race

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A recent report issued by the Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) in Britain, it virtually assures us we’ll see a brand spanking new arms...
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Monday, February 2, 2015

Paul Buchheit — Democrat Rahm Emanuel Puts Chicago Up for Sale

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Chicago is being privatized . Assets are being sold off, Wall Street debt is mounting, and the mayor conducts business with multi-milliona...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Michael Hiltzik — Five Years After Citizens United Ruling, Big Money Reigns

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A new study by the public policy think tank Demos and the public interest group U.S. PIRG calculates that U.S. Senate candidates will have...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Keane Bhatt — Progressive Policies Are Popular - So Why Should Democrats Be Afraid of Them?

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A HuffPost/YouGov poll ( 6/20/13 ) found that 74 percent of the US public supports requiring companies to offer paid sick leave to their em...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

DSWright — Taken For Granted At Davos That US Government Run On ‘Legalized Corruption’

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In an interview at Davos with Bloomberg News related to growing concerns about rising wealth inequality and its corruption influence on Ame...
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