In March of 2016 the renowned Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger published an article titled “A world war has begun. Break the silence.” which urgently warned of the U.S. empire’s aggressive escalations against Russia and China. Re-reading parts of it in 2023 is like watching someone placing flags next to recently planted seeds that would eventually grow into the towering problems our world now faces.
Source: Caitlin Johnstone: Re-Reading John Pilger
When did the LNP broad church turn into a Cyclops”?
Liberal Party politicians who support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament are facing pressure to stay quiet or lose their preselection, according to the head of the group spearheading the “Yes” campaign among conservatives, Kate Carnell.
Source: LNP - No Conscience Vote
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Why we have billionaires and trillionaires and a shrinking middle class,
Overall, notes the economist Thomas Piketty, America’s wealthiest faced an average 81 percent top tax rate between the years 1932 and 1980, one key reason why our richest 0.1 percenters — over the course of the 20th century’s middle decades — sawtheir share of the nation’s wealth sink from 25 to just 7 percent.
The rich — on both sides of the Atlantic — would spend plenty
of time stewing about that shocking sink throughout those middle
decades. But these deep pockets would eventually regain their political
mojo, first in the UK with Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 political ascent and
then a year later with Ronald Reagan’s election. By 1988, the UK’s top
rate had sunk by over half, and America’s richest faced just a 28 percent top-bracket bite.
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