Showing posts with label oligarchy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oligarchy. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2026
Paul Krugman: What Malta Tells Us about Oligarchy
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Bernie Sanders Unloads on Billionaires at ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Rally
May 25, 2026 | Bernie Sanders delivered a fiery keynote speech at the “Fighting Oligarchy” rally in Orono, Maine, blasting billionaires, corporate power, and economic inequality in America.
Joined by Maine candidates Graham Platner and Troy Jackson, Sanders called for a political revolution focused on workers’ rights, healthcare, affordable housing, and taxing the ultra-wealthy.
During the rally, Sanders argued that the top 1% controls enormous wealth and political influence while ordinary Americans struggle with wages, healthcare costs, and housing.
He also criticized media concentration, the Citizens United ruling, and corporate influence over government.
The Vermont senator proposed a 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires and urged Americans to unite against what he described as an “oligarchic system” benefiting the rich at the expense of working families.
Bernie Sanders is the man who should be inhabiting the White House, Bernie Sanders is the man who should be president. If only American voters were smart enough to know what’s best for them!
Most Americans fear Bernie Sanders, believing him to be a “radical socialist”! Fact is, he is nothing of the sort. Were he to be running for political office here in Europe, he’d be considered a middle of the road, moderate candidate. But to pro-capitalist, far-right loons, he’s considered to be a far-left socialist outlier. Go figure!
If Americans were to listen closely to his message(s), what this gentleman wants for his compatriots is fairness. He is NOT against rich people at all. He simply wants them to pay their fair share, he wants them to contribute a relatively small portion of their wealth to the state in the form of taxes, for the common good.
After all, America’s infrastructure is falling apart. America’s poor live “paycheck to paycheck”. Millions of Americans cannot afford any healthcare, because they cannot afford the extremely hefty insurance premiums. Furthermore, increasingly and disturbingly, the one-time middle classes are losing their homes and are becoming homeless or are reduced to living in trailer parks!
What Bernie Sanders wants for America is universal healthcare, free at the point of delivery, just like all civilised countries offer their citizens. After all, if a regime such as Trump’s can squander between one and two billion dollars a day on an illicit and unnecessary war, and if it can offer the already superrich tax breaks and severely reduced tax demands, then it surely can afford to offer the people free healthcare. Universal healthcare is not socialism in action; it is merely Christianity in action! Just imagine being older with a serious chronic illness and not having the means even to visit a doctor, still less receive treatment for that illness! What a fix to be in! What a fate! And this in a country which calls itself “Christian”!
My message to Americans is this: Bernie is your man. If you Americans ever had the good sense to vote for Bernie, you, and the rest of the world, would see emerging and rising like Pheonix from the ashes a very different, far fairer, far gentler America : An America worthy of respect; and an America to be admired. — © Mark Alexander
Joined by Maine candidates Graham Platner and Troy Jackson, Sanders called for a political revolution focused on workers’ rights, healthcare, affordable housing, and taxing the ultra-wealthy.
During the rally, Sanders argued that the top 1% controls enormous wealth and political influence while ordinary Americans struggle with wages, healthcare costs, and housing.
He also criticized media concentration, the Citizens United ruling, and corporate influence over government.
The Vermont senator proposed a 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires and urged Americans to unite against what he described as an “oligarchic system” benefiting the rich at the expense of working families.
Bernie Sanders is the man who should be inhabiting the White House, Bernie Sanders is the man who should be president. If only American voters were smart enough to know what’s best for them!
Most Americans fear Bernie Sanders, believing him to be a “radical socialist”! Fact is, he is nothing of the sort. Were he to be running for political office here in Europe, he’d be considered a middle of the road, moderate candidate. But to pro-capitalist, far-right loons, he’s considered to be a far-left socialist outlier. Go figure!
If Americans were to listen closely to his message(s), what this gentleman wants for his compatriots is fairness. He is NOT against rich people at all. He simply wants them to pay their fair share, he wants them to contribute a relatively small portion of their wealth to the state in the form of taxes, for the common good.
After all, America’s infrastructure is falling apart. America’s poor live “paycheck to paycheck”. Millions of Americans cannot afford any healthcare, because they cannot afford the extremely hefty insurance premiums. Furthermore, increasingly and disturbingly, the one-time middle classes are losing their homes and are becoming homeless or are reduced to living in trailer parks!
What Bernie Sanders wants for America is universal healthcare, free at the point of delivery, just like all civilised countries offer their citizens. After all, if a regime such as Trump’s can squander between one and two billion dollars a day on an illicit and unnecessary war, and if it can offer the already superrich tax breaks and severely reduced tax demands, then it surely can afford to offer the people free healthcare. Universal healthcare is not socialism in action; it is merely Christianity in action! Just imagine being older with a serious chronic illness and not having the means even to visit a doctor, still less receive treatment for that illness! What a fix to be in! What a fate! And this in a country which calls itself “Christian”!
My message to Americans is this: Bernie is your man. If you Americans ever had the good sense to vote for Bernie, you, and the rest of the world, would see emerging and rising like Pheonix from the ashes a very different, far fairer, far gentler America : An America worthy of respect; and an America to be admired. — © Mark Alexander
Saturday, March 07, 2026
The Trump Threat
Thursday, July 03, 2025
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Saturday, March 22, 2025
AOC and Bernie Sanders 'Fight Oligarchy' Rally in Denver, Colorado
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Thom Hartmann: Does Trump’s Open War Against Court Orders Mean Dictatorship & Oligarchy Arrived?
Mar 18, 2025 | When President Trump justified shredding the Constitution, he’s declaring war on democracy itself.
We must flood the streets in protest. We must call our representatives and demand accountability. We must challenge this in the courts, in the media, and at the ballot box. Silence is complicity.
The time to resist is now, before Trump’s America becomes a full-fledged police state.
This is not a drill. This is not a partisan squabble. This is the moment when we decide whether the United States remains a constitutional republic or slides into authoritarian rule.
Every single American who values freedom, regardless of party affiliation, must speak out.
We must flood the streets in protest. We must call our representatives and demand accountability. We must challenge this in the courts, in the media, and at the ballot box. Silence is complicity.
The time to resist is now, before Trump’s America becomes a full-fledged police state.
This is not a drill. This is not a partisan squabble. This is the moment when we decide whether the United States remains a constitutional republic or slides into authoritarian rule.
Every single American who values freedom, regardless of party affiliation, must speak out.
Sunday, March 09, 2025
Bernie Sanders Continues Fight Against Oligarchy in Kenosha
Mar 9, 2025 | It wasn’t a campaign rally or an election pit stop, but once again, Wisconsinites packed an arena to see a politician speak Friday night.
It was Bernie Sanders, who was in Kenosha as part of his national Fighting Oligarchy tour. Around 3,500 people came to see the Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential primary candidate.
Another 500 were turned away after the University of Wisconsin-Parkside’s basketball stadium reached capacity.
This is the gentleman who should be POTUS, not Trump! – © Mark Alexander
It was Bernie Sanders, who was in Kenosha as part of his national Fighting Oligarchy tour. Around 3,500 people came to see the Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential primary candidate.
Another 500 were turned away after the University of Wisconsin-Parkside’s basketball stadium reached capacity.
This is the gentleman who should be POTUS, not Trump! – © Mark Alexander
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Bernie Sanders: A Sad Moment in American History
Isn’t Trump’s behaviour the very definition of treason? – © Mark Alexander
Tuesday, February 04, 2025
Thom Hartmann: America Fought a Revolution to Stop Kings! Trump Just Gave Oligarchs Their Throne Back
Feb 4, 2025 | America was built to reject kings, theocrats, and the morbidly rich — It’s the same playbook, different century…
The author of the Declaration of Independence were explicitly rejecting “three historic tyrannies”: kings, autocrats, theocrats and popes, and the morbidly rich oligarchs.
Now in the first hundred days of Donald Trump's second term - he has given the oligarchs their throne back.
The author of the Declaration of Independence were explicitly rejecting “three historic tyrannies”: kings, autocrats, theocrats and popes, and the morbidly rich oligarchs.
Now in the first hundred days of Donald Trump's second term - he has given the oligarchs their throne back.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Trump: The End of Democracy? Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Winner
Jan 20, 2025 | In this previously unpublished interview, Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, denounces the decline of freedom in the United States and the rest of the world. Trump, a creature of neoliberalism, will continue to destroy democratic institutions. By destroying institutions, neoliberal policies have enabled populists to emerge in Europe, South America and the United States.
In a previous book, The Price of Inequality, Joseph Stiglitz warned of the risk of populists seizing power.
Interview by Maxime Thuillez in Paris
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In a previous book, The Price of Inequality, Joseph Stiglitz warned of the risk of populists seizing power.
Interview by Maxime Thuillez in Paris
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Thursday, January 16, 2025
Joe Biden Warns ‘Oligarchy Is Taking Shape in America’ in Farewell Address
THE GUARDIAN: President sounds alarm about growing power of ultra-wealthy before handing presidency back to Trump
Joe Biden’s final address to the nation struck an ominous tone after warning of the growing power of America’s ultra-wealthy, and cautioning that an emerging oligarchy threatens the foundations of US democracy.
The Wednesday prime-time Oval Office speech came as Biden prepares to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump, who he defeated in 2020 only to see return to power after Biden’s own dramatic exit from politics last summer.
“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,” Biden said. » | Joseph Gedeon in Washington | Thursday, January 16, 2025
America is ALREADY an oligarchy, Mr President. Oligarchy has been in the making for a very long time. America has been governed for the benefit of the rich for years. Trump has dotted all the 'i's' and crossed all the 't's'. He's completed the task.
Lincoln’s famous phrase, “Government of the people, by the people, for the people’ is passé now. Trump has changed all that. And it hasn’t taken him long to do so, either. From here on in, it’s ‘government of the superrich, by the superrich, for the superrich’. “The people” will get the crumbs that fall under their masters’ tables – if the are lucky!
The American political system has been usurped and poisoned, probably forever. Democracy has been supplanted by oligarchy. You call it oligarchy; I prefer to call it plutocracy, since it is a more accurate nomenclature.
In any case, darkness has befallen your nation, Mr President. America is no longer a “City upon a Hill” as has so often been quoted by many a president or a president-elect; it is no longer a beacon – a shining light in the distance; rather, it is a source of darkness in the distance. And that dark shadow will surely now be cast upon the rest of the free world. Enlightened thinking is already in the process of being replaced by benighted thinking. Ignorance is taking hold. It is already discernable right across the free world. Even here in Europe. Gee! Thanks America! You've done the free world proud. – © Mark Alexander
Joe Biden’s final address to the nation struck an ominous tone after warning of the growing power of America’s ultra-wealthy, and cautioning that an emerging oligarchy threatens the foundations of US democracy.
The Wednesday prime-time Oval Office speech came as Biden prepares to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump, who he defeated in 2020 only to see return to power after Biden’s own dramatic exit from politics last summer.
“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,” Biden said. » | Joseph Gedeon in Washington | Thursday, January 16, 2025
America is ALREADY an oligarchy, Mr President. Oligarchy has been in the making for a very long time. America has been governed for the benefit of the rich for years. Trump has dotted all the 'i's' and crossed all the 't's'. He's completed the task.
Lincoln’s famous phrase, “Government of the people, by the people, for the people’ is passé now. Trump has changed all that. And it hasn’t taken him long to do so, either. From here on in, it’s ‘government of the superrich, by the superrich, for the superrich’. “The people” will get the crumbs that fall under their masters’ tables – if the are lucky!
The American political system has been usurped and poisoned, probably forever. Democracy has been supplanted by oligarchy. You call it oligarchy; I prefer to call it plutocracy, since it is a more accurate nomenclature.
In any case, darkness has befallen your nation, Mr President. America is no longer a “City upon a Hill” as has so often been quoted by many a president or a president-elect; it is no longer a beacon – a shining light in the distance; rather, it is a source of darkness in the distance. And that dark shadow will surely now be cast upon the rest of the free world. Enlightened thinking is already in the process of being replaced by benighted thinking. Ignorance is taking hold. It is already discernable right across the free world. Even here in Europe. Gee! Thanks America! You've done the free world proud. – © Mark Alexander
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Kyle Kulinski Obliterates Elon and the Oligarch's Plot to Rob Us Blind
Jan 15, 2025 | n this fiery video, Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk explains how Elon Musk and the other oligarchs and plutocrats plans to rob us blind. On his show, Kyle Kulinski points out Professor Scott Galloway's appearances on CNN and Morning Joe.
Kyle Kulinksi and Scott Galloway describe just how disgusting Elon and the other figures in Trump's upcoming administration are. Scott Galloway does something that is rarely done on mainstream news - he says that being rich doesn't make you any happier. Kyle Kulinski provides his analysis of what Galloway revealed. It's Kyle Kulinski's assertion that things could get very bad in our country from an economic standpoint, and people will start to fight back.
This is a must-watch to understand what Kyle Kulinski and Scott Galloway had to say!
The USA has been turned into a sewer. Unfortunately, dumb Westerners continue to look up to the country and its corrupt ways.
They need to avert their gaze eastwards! America can no longer teach the West anything of value. The big idea for the West is democracy. America is no longer a democracy; rather, it is a plutocracy. Some prefer the term oligarchy. Whichever term you prefer, one thing is for sure: it is far away from democracy. America is now ruled by the rich, for the rich, and for the exclusive benefit of the rich. – © Mark Alexander
Kyle Kulinksi and Scott Galloway describe just how disgusting Elon and the other figures in Trump's upcoming administration are. Scott Galloway does something that is rarely done on mainstream news - he says that being rich doesn't make you any happier. Kyle Kulinski provides his analysis of what Galloway revealed. It's Kyle Kulinski's assertion that things could get very bad in our country from an economic standpoint, and people will start to fight back.
This is a must-watch to understand what Kyle Kulinski and Scott Galloway had to say!
The USA has been turned into a sewer. Unfortunately, dumb Westerners continue to look up to the country and its corrupt ways.
They need to avert their gaze eastwards! America can no longer teach the West anything of value. The big idea for the West is democracy. America is no longer a democracy; rather, it is a plutocracy. Some prefer the term oligarchy. Whichever term you prefer, one thing is for sure: it is far away from democracy. America is now ruled by the rich, for the rich, and for the exclusive benefit of the rich. – © Mark Alexander
Thursday, January 09, 2025
There’s a Sickness at the Heart of Politics & It’s Called Oligarchy
Friday, January 03, 2025
Thom Hartmann Program: Trump's Fascist Plan: Turning Democracy to Oligarchy Isn't Enough for the Rich
The US political system is totally corrupt and disgusting. It is no longer an example for any other Western country to follow. Turn your sights away from America! Rather direct your sights eastward to Europe. It's the UK's destiny. – © Mark Alexander
Sunday, December 29, 2024
MUST-SEE: Jamie Raskin Takes On Elon Musk
I don't know why they keep on using the term oligarchy when the word plutocracy would be far more appropriate. – © Mark Alexander
Please check this out on the difference between an oligarchy and a plutocracy.
Bernie Sanders Issues Dire Warning about State of US as 2024 Draws to a Close
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Senator Bernie Sanders: We Hear All the Time about Putin's Oligarchy in Russia. News Flash: America Has an Oligarchy, Too.
More power to Bernie Sanders. A very decent gentleman who has the courage to stand up to the autocrat-elect and the fawning grifters that are kissing his arse. – © Mark Alexander
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