Mega Rich RWA

Neoliberal, Free Market Fundamentalist, Ideology of The 1971 Powell Memo Reflected in Koch Brother’s 1980 Manifesto

Decades later, Lewis Powell codified Vice President Wallace's "method" in The Powell Memo of 1971. The result was a proliferation…

11 years ago

Why Do The ONE% Keep Getting Richer?

An updated report on growing income inequality between America's profit makers and profit takers shows the growth of income for…

11 years ago

Minimum Wage, Wage Theft and The Free Market at Work – Is it Fixable?

The post 80's ideas of keeping the minimum wage suppressed and not rewarding workers, profit creators, for their productivity increases…

12 years ago

Dirk Van Dongen – Strengthening The Military-Corporate Complex and Enriching the ONE%

In an address to the nation on January 17, 1961, in the middle of nurturing the greatest middle class this…

12 years ago

The Dakota Indians Lost to the ONE% in the 1860s – Can Today’s 99% Check and Balance Today’s ONE%?

A recent episode of This American Life was about the Dakota War of 1862. This war resulted in the final…

12 years ago

How Wealthy are the Forbes 400 – Let’s Try Some “Arithmetic” …

Robert Reich made the following statement last June, " ... the richest 400 Americans {own} as much as the bottom…

12 years ago

2012 Election – Are We Going to Return to a National Legalized Gozzle-up Ponzi Scheme?

(The following is a reposting of an entry from August of 2010 with minor updates.) This posting was inspired by…

12 years ago

Authoritarian Plan for a Koch Brothers’ America – Update to The Powell Plan

Just over a year ago, I wrote a post about The Powell Memo. This memo has been referred to by…

12 years ago

The Four Fundamentalisms of America’s Authoritarian State – Threats to Our Democracy

The excerpts below are from a recent article by Henry Giroux, author of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age…

13 years ago

We Need More Citizenship Dues, a Reversal of Citizens United, and Democracy in the Workplace

Real wage growth, related to worker productivity gains, have been diverted to corporations, their boards of directors, and the rest…

13 years ago