Sunday, January 1st, 2017
Dan Wright, - Mint Press News/ Shadowproof
Stephan: I see the rise of Neo-Feudalism as one of the most pernicious trends in American. We are creating a society in which a very small economic aristocracy owns almost everything, a small middle class services them them, and a vast peasantry makes out as best they can.
Only concerted and collective mass intention is going to change this trend.
Marijo Beckman greeted Black Friday shoppers at a Boynton Beach,Fla. Walmart store.
Credit: AP/J Pat Carter
Published in partnership with Shadowproof.
The famous United States stock index known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (or simply the Dow) flirted with approaching a historic high of 20,000. The index, which shows how the largest 30 companies publicly traded in the U.S. are performing, is considered a key indicator of how well U.S. business is doing.
On September 29th, 2008, the Dow crashed a historic 777.68 points in intra-day trading and would go on to reach its bottom of 6,594.44 on March 5, 2009.
The recovery of the Dow and the stock market has been great for the top one percent of Americans, who roughly own 36 percent of all private wealth. And, although roughly 35 percent of the general U.S. population owns securities through a retirement fund, their individual ownership share is minuscule to the point of irrelevance.
So, the rich have genuinely and thoroughly recovered from the crash of 2008. But what about everyone else?
* 93 percent of U.S. […]
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Sunday, January 1st, 2017
Alexander Reid Ross, Geography Instructor Portland State University, Author - Against the Fascist Creep - truthout
Stephan: Donald Trump, whatever he happens to be saying at any given moment, is appointing to his administration and transition team men and women who are blatant Fascists. Here is one of the worst. I think that says more than his tweets.
Kris Kobach, Kansas secretary of state, at his office in Topeka, Kan.
Credit: Steve Hebert/The New York Times
By signing Kris Kobach to his transition team, President-elect Donald Trump sent a message to the US. An architect of the notorious “papers please” bill, Arizona’s SB 1070, Kobach stands to prepare the way for Trump’s promise to deport 3 million migrants in his first year in office. While SB 1070-like bills were passed in other states around the US, it would likely have to be universalized through congressional legislation for such an increase of deportations to occur.
SB 1070 effectively required police to inquire into legal residency when noticing possible indicators of foreign citizenship, such as Mexican flags, skin color and foreign accents. It was known as the “papers please” bill because its hard line on immigration seemed comparable to many a fascist policy. This comparison was not exactly off target.
Kobach himself is tied to the white nationalist Tanton network, which runs a whole system of groups that fund and lobby in favor of anti-immigration and population control efforts. It was through his […]
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