Part 5 of a 10-part Series: Big Money and the Corporatocracy Captures the Media Indeed, whether such extreme inequality is or is not sustainable depends not only on the effectiveness of the repressive apparatus but also, and perhaps primarily, on the apparatus of justification.” Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, (2014) Gaining a stranglehold on […]
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A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings: From the Powell Memo to the Eastman Memo and January 6th
Part 4 of a 10-part Series: Federalists and Dominionists Take Over the Courts The appearance of influence or access, furthermore, will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy. Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in Citizens United v FEC Most of us are no longer surprised by the plutocrat-friendly decisions emanating from […]
A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings: From the Powell Memo to the Eastman Memo and January 6th
Part 3 of a 10-part Series: The Powell Memo Let Loose “All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” Adam Smith, 1776 The wealthy, business elites and the corporatocracy took the advice from Powell’s memo and ran […]
