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  It is a new Western trend that billionaires now dominate public life. They own the media, social media, assert corporate control and, as a recent study finds, tend to run for political office. The Billionaire World Politicians: According to a recent study that highlights the growing power of the super-wealthy, more than 11% of the world’s more than 2,000 …

  An important change in the U.S. political system came about by the 2010 Supreme Court decision to give private corporations, not only individuals, the right to donate and pay for politicians’ rise to power.  Since then, the richest 0.01% have accounted for 40% of all campaign contributions through corporate donations. “This has proved to be an excellent investment in …

  South Africa’s transition from apartheid to polyarchy provides a devastating example of the power of capitalism to penetrate and dismantle a vibrant movement demanding massive social change and effectively harmonize them into a neoliberal social order. Efforts to promote forms of democracy where the majority act as participants, not spectators, are opposed by privileged elites of all political persuasions. …

  Herland Report TV host, Hanne Nabintu Herland speaks with Judicial Watch’ senior investigator, William Marshall about George Soros elite control, the drug epidemic and financial elites’ use of NGOs to manipulate politicians and government officials. George Soros control: The United States is engulfed in an unprecedented drug epidemic that we hear remarkably little of in the mainstream media. A …

  “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” — George Santayana Our time is much like Europe during 1912-1914 and 1938-1939.  War is brewing, and unlike the earlier periods today the countries likely to be involved, with the exception of Russia, China, and Iran, are not trying to avoid it.   Our time is much like 1939: …

  Financial mongul, atheist and one of the world’s famous investors, George Soros has amassed much of his fortune via the controversial practice of ruthless, global currency speculation.  With major impact on global economies, his aggressive financial strategies have targeted politics and the demonization of traditional, Christian Western values for decades. His funding of Marxist, leftwing political movements have produced disruption, …

  Generally speaking, democracies die from corruption. The United States is no exception.  America has always suffered from corrupt government at every level.  Liberals who put unwarranted trust in government, especially at the federal level, have long been in denial about this fact.   Liberals tend to see corruption in state and local governments, especially Southern ones.  They see federal government intervention as the …

  Since the early 1980s, economic growth has increasingly been driven by financialization in the West – the replacement of industrial activity by financial trading. Traders like financial mogul and hedge-fund investor, George Soros, who has been called the world’s most famous investor, have greatly benefitted from financialization.  Soros explains in his famous 60 Minutes interview from 1999, how he …

  Tariff headlines are designed to provoke and grab attention, with striking percentages quoted that appear to signal President Trump’s latest stance, framing the narrative around which country stands to win, and which to lose.   But the reality is far more nuanced than what a headline number suggests. Recently, we’ve seen that tariffs are driven not just by economic considerations, but …

  The Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska ended a few short hours after it started, and it was by any intelligent standard a great meeting. We don’t have all the details yet, but the verdict is still clear. Let’s first establish why the critics have no leg to stand on. From at least March 2022, no Western leader, whether in Europe …