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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Sen. Bernie Sanders about his book, "Fight Oligarchy," which argues oligarchic economic and political control has left millions of Americans struggling.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Trump “did a better job" than Biden on the border during a podcast, breaking with Democrats and calling for a secure border “period."
This is a guy who puts up an AI image of him in an airplane defecating on American cities—not quite the image of the president of the United States that I was educated to respect,” the senator and author of ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tells ‘Vanity Fair.
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How the Trump Oligarchy Works: The Case of Stephen Schwarzman
Today, class, we’re going to look at how the American oligarchy works in the person of Stephen Schwarzman, the 33rd richest person in the world (net worth: $50 billion) and a man widely touted as “the undisputed king of private equity.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has said that Donald Trump’s electoral success lies in acknowledging “the system is broken” in America. The left-wing politician appeared on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show last night to cheers and applause, while the audience chanted his name.
Human interest stories and speechifying might lament or deplore common predicaments, but their storylines rarely connect the destructive effects of economic insecurity with the ways that corporate power plunders social resources and fleeces the working class.
The seat of the American presidency, the White House, is being physically transformed into the architectural embodiment of oligarchic rule.