Tag: Billionairs
Angry panel skewers ‘clownish’ US foreign policy & media lies (Full show)
Is all that has happened as the US ends its efforts in Afghanistan really as catastrophic as US media is currently reporting, or are US journalists overplaying a war they have all but ignored for more than a decade? Rick Sanchez argues that the outcome of the US invasion and ill-considered withdrawal was only unexpected to those not paying attention. …
How billionaires pay millions to hide wealth
Jesse Ventura sits down with author Chuck Collins to discuss his new book, ‘The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions’. The Governor also talks to Standing Rock Sioux member Joseph McNeil Jr. from the Sage Development Authority about the first tribally owned public wind farm following the temporary shutdown of the Dakota Access Pipeline. …
The eviction moratorium, Nina Turner’s loss, the opioid epidemic
Lee Camp takes a look back at how Congress played economic brinkmanship with the eviction moratorium over the past week. Millions of people were threatened with eviction without the moratorium. If it weren’t for Representative Cori Bush and the people who slept at the Capitol with her, evictions would be in full swing right now. …
China, Hedge Funds gobbling up America. Congress to intervene
Are foreigners to blame for America’s out of control housing prices? RT America’s Faran Fronczak discusses how billionaires from all over the world are actually the ones driving these prices up, even though Washington wants to blame China. Economics professor Richard Wolff points out how certain US government policies are really to blame, and not China. …
The gig economy is a trap
Lee Camp exposes the exploitation that holds the gig economy together. One-third of US citizens work within the gig economy and its practical impact is to increase the precarious situation of American workers. The system guts many of the protections that people had come to expect from their jobs and that’s exactly why the rich love it. …
