Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The U.S. has the most unequal, or aristocratic and anti-democratic, distribution of wealth, of all of the major economies — and this is now set (on account of tax-law changes that started in 1986) to become vastly worse and what one leading legal scholar is already predicting to create “the […]
“What started in Russia will end in America.” – Saint Ignatius of Harbin. Looks like he was right. America is being tyrannized by a minority of truly insane people. They would shut up and go away if we simply stood up for ourselves. But will we? That is the question.
A survey of cities has ranked Bath the most progressive, thanks partly to its recycling rates and gender pay gap
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The riots and demonstrations by Antifa and Black Lives Matter are certainly a dominant theme in today’s news. The alleged aggression against people of color has, if one trusts the media, created an image of a galvanized and very angry people who have been woefully treated for far, far too long. Martin Luther King’s descendants often appear to use their star power to support and provoke the demonstrations to still further extents of fury and self-justification. However, the children and grandchildren are not echoing what their father wanted.
They represented two foundational but antagonistic visions of “what we as a society, what we as a state should embody” ( Review of ‘Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and The Risk of Democracy’ By Aishwary Kumar Navayana, Rs 599) In the early 1990s D.R. Nagaraj published The Flaming Feet, a compilation of his essays in which he … Continue reading Lessons from Ambedkar and Gandhi to take forward →
The effort to oust President Donald Trump seized its latest victim for collateral last week when Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was “outed” for allegedly wearing either “blackface” makeup or a KKK hood in a photo from his high school yearbook.
Naturally, the media is in an uproar about this, with Democrats in Congress (as well as Republicans) calling for the Governor’s resignation.
Liz Wheeler gives three reasons, complete with examples, why socialism does not work. She concludes that, under socialism, after the state takes all the money from the rich and the middle class, eventually it runs out of people to tax, and everyone becomes equally poor. [...]
From record-breaking budgets to progress on pay parity, 5 ways in which women’s football reached a new level in 2017
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New rules from the Advertising Standards Authority will allow the removal of adverts across all media that demean, mock or objectify on the basis of gender
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