In the United States, there is one set of rules for rich people (especially if they are also white) and another set for everyone else. That unjust and anti-democratic system is reflected across American society. The country’s wealth and income inequality is so extreme (especially the race-wealth gap) that it more closely resembles that of a Third World autocracy than one of the world’s richest countries and a “leading democracy.”

There is the “legal” theft. The county’s laws are literally written by the rich and the powerful. In turn, those laws represent their interests and goals over and above those of the average American. Political scientists have actually shown that America’s elected officials on the national level are largely not responsive to the demands and needs of ordinary people….

https://www.alternet.org/2021/04/trump-legal-consequences/

Michael Roberts: The top 1% own 45% of all global personal wealth; the bottom 50% own less than 1% // Global Economic Volatility and Socio Political Reactions

SUBMARINE STATE

Dismantling democracy? Virus used as excuse to quell dissent…

Sam Kriss: ‘Neoliberalism’ isn’t a left-wing insult but a monstrous system of inequality

Walter Benjamin: Capitalism as Religion (1921)

Noam Chomsky: Internationalism or Extinction (Universalizing Resistance)

Can Capitalism and Democracy Coexist?

DANIEL LEWIS – Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94 // Catonsville 9 Statement written by Dan Berrigan, S.J.

Alfred McCoy: The crumbling delusion of Washington’s endless world dominion

Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy

Sam Kriss: ‘Neoliberalism’ isn’t a left-wing insult but a monstrous system of inequality

Zack Stanton: Violent Christian Extremism in the USA

John Pilger – The silent military coup that took over Washington

Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden must put an end to business as usual. Here’s where to start // GOP nightmare about to come true: Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders

Paul Blumenthal: Trump’s MAGA Myth Reaches Its Catastrophic Conclusion / Schwarzenegger compares Capitol riot to Kristallnacht / Bharat Bhushan: Vigilantism threatens India too

Amulya Ganguli – End of India’s “Howdy, Modi” Bonhomie with the USA

Donald Trump’s gift to America: Realizing we’ve never been a liberal democracy. By PAUL ROSENBERG

Steve Bannon Documentary, ‘The Brink’, Will Leave You Cold

Mohammed Hanif: The rest of the world has had it with US presidents, Trump or otherwise

You’re fired ! Americans taunt Trump with his own catchphrase

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ends truce by warning ‘incompetent’ Democratic party

George Monbiot: Ayn Rand – A Manifesto for Psychopaths

Tom McTague: The Decline of the American World

Donald Trump: Democracy’s mirror image? By Philip Manow / David A. Bell – Fascism or Caesarism?

Jonathan Freedland – Donald Trump’s plot against democracy could break America apart

Debt: The first five thousand years. By DAVID GRAEBER

HARRY BLAIN: America’s Wars always Come Home

Jill Lepore  A History of America’s military spending
Jonathan Freedland: Trump is destroying democracy in broad daylight // Chauncey DeVega: Vigilantes are preparing ‘to launch a coup’

Chauncey DeVega: Trump is mentally ill but our real sickness runs much deeper

America isn’t breaking. It was already broken. By Andrew Gawthorpe // Why This Time Is Different. By Dahlia Lithwick

Black and Unarmed and Killed by the Police…an incomplete list…This is America….

Houston Police chief to Trump: Please, keep your mouth shut if you can’t be constructive

Donald Trump and American carnage // Will Urban Uprisings Help Trump?

May 1968 – June 1989. It’s been five decades since 1968, and things are somehow worse

Justice in America: Authorities are Cracking down Hard on Black Protesters while Treating White Supremacist Reopeners with Kid Gloves

Protests in USA over the death of unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of police – 25 cities have imposed curfews

Mukul Kesavan – Donald Trump and the global equalization of awfulness

Karl Marx: Letter to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America; 1865

President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Speech on the American Military Industrial Complex, January 17, 1961

Simi Mehta – Martin Luther King: Changing The World With Love