My grandfather Nelson Mandela fought apartheid. I see the parallels with Israel
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/11/grandfather-nelson-mandela-apartheid-parallels-israel-palestinian
The wealth of America’s three richest families grew by 6,000% since 1982 | Chuck Collins | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/us-wealthiest-families-dynasties-governed-by-rich
Usually wealth diminishes over multiple generations, as money is spent, passed down to heirs, given to charity and paid in taxes. Only when families aggressively intervene to arrest this cycle does wealth continue to expand over multiple generations, even as the number of heirs increases.
Several dynastic families have used their considerable clout to stage just such an intervention, spending millions to save themselves billions.
They’ve lobbied Congress to tip the rules in favor of dynastic wealth, including tax cuts and public policies that will further enrich their enterprises. In the early 2000s, the Mars, Walton and Gallo families actively lobbied to abolish the federal estate tax, a tax paid exclusively by multimillionaires and billionaires. The Koch brothers have since organized their famous donor network to lobby for tax cuts for the rich and to roll back regulations on the energy industry, the source of their wealth.
Others aggressively use dynasty protection techniques to hide wealth and transfer it to heirs. They hire armies of tax accountants, wealth managers and trust lawyers to create trusts, shell corporations and offshore accounts to move money around and dodge taxation and accountability.
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Trump has abandoned civility. And so has the Republican party | Lloyd Green | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/trump-abandoned-civility-republican-party
Vulgar and impulsive, shredding the social fabric is what Trump unapologetically does
Bolsonaro is a monster engineered by our media
▻https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018-10-30/bolsonaro-is-a-monster-engineered-by-our-media
Jonathan Cook, à propos d’un article de Jenkins dans le Guardian, ▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/29/brazil-election-far-right-democracy-social-media
Jenkins wants to lecture the masses about their depraved choices while he and his paper steer them away from any politician who cares about their welfare, who fights for a fairer society, who prioritises mending what is broken.
The western elites will decry Bolsonaro in the forlorn and cynical hope of shoring up their credentials as guardians of the existing, supposedly moral order. But they engineered him. Bolsonaro is their monster.
Cette tendance à accuser les médias est une manière a-politique d’analyser les événements politiques. Non que les médias ne soient pas en partie responsables (même si au Brésil il semble que ce soit essentiellement les réseaux sociaux qui aient fait le jeu de Bolsonaro, et non les médias mainstreams dominants), mais la responsabilité est d’abord celle de ceux et celles qui lui ont préparé le terrain. En l’occurence le PT.
A ce propos : ▻https://journal.lutte-ouvriere.org/2018/10/31/bresil-bolsonaro-elu-un-resultat-de-la-crise-et-de-la-failli
Ou encore, plus complet : ▻https://mensuel.lutte-ouvriere.org//2018/10/28/bolsonaro-fruit-pourri-de-la-crise-bresilienne_114509.html
If you’re on the side of democracy, Nick Clegg, why are you going to work for Facebook ?
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/21/if-youre-on-the-side-of-democracy-why-are-you-going-to-work-for-faceboo
When you take the Zuckerberg shilling, you’re leaving your principles behind you Dear Nick, congratulations on the new job. Finally, some real power. Deputy prime minister is so last century. You’re now vice-president of global affairs and communications at Facebook, a company that, as Mark Zuckerberg points out, is less a traditional firm than a full-blown nation state. And not just any nation state – the most powerful nation state on Earth, ever, home to 2 billion people and with nothing as (...)
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Jonathan Cook sur Twitter : "Awful as Khashoggi’s murder was, this is pure, hagiographic tripe from Jonathan Freedland. Khashoggi wasn’t a ’reformer’ or ’bright light’ - he was a long-time insider and apologist for this ’morally repugant’ regime. A Saudi version of Freedland, in fact / Twitter
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1053565164916826112
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/19/saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi-life-mission-brutal-regime
All the president’s men: what to make of Trump’s bizarre new painting | Hannah Jane Parkinson | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/15/president-trump-new-painting-white-house-republican
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, unless it’s a shredded Banksy, obviously, which is worth around £1m. But how to put a value on the majestic artwork Donald Trump was revealed to have gracing the wall outside the Oval Office, as eagle-eyed viewers of 60 Minutes spotted?
So far, we know of two other “artworks” that Trump has: that Photoshopped picture of his inauguration crowd (dude, let it go), and the electoral college map. It is no wonder Trump wanted to spruce the place up in his own way, given that he referred to the White House as “a dump”. I still cackle at this, given its sheer, disparaging rudeness – like how when Location, Location, Location’s Phil shows a couple around a three-bedroom semi with a north-facing garden, Kirstie mugs to the camera and draws an imaginary knife across her throat.
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As Americans try to come to terms with the astonishing prospect that Donald Trump is the new U.S. president, and before he moves into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, we were excited to know what properties will he leave behind? Donald Trump is one of the most well-known real estate moguls in the world, he is well-known in the real estate world and has sold some of the most expensive properties in the U.S.The Trump Organization real estate portfolio includes properties in Virginia, Illinois, Florida, New Jersey, Nevada, California, New York, Connecticut and Hawaii.
▻https://www.arch2o.com/quick-tour-inside-donald-trump-house
Don’t thank #Bezos for giving #Amazon workers a much-needed raise | #Matt_Stoller | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/04/jeff-bezos-amazon-workers-raise-monopoly
Bezos is hoping that by paying a bit more to workers, he can avoid scrutiny of the massive monopoly power he exerts over the American political economy. It’s important he not be allowed to get away with it. If we want to govern ourselves, we have to stop thinking like #serfs and asking masters for better treatment. We must demand liberty, and that means more than $15/hour in wages from a monopolist.