Is America a Democracy or an Oligarchy? by Eamon Doyle

Is America a Democracy or an Oligarchy? by Eamon Doyle

Author:Eamon Doyle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2021-08-12T00:00:00+00:00


“Top 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power,” by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies, December 4, 2000. Reprinted by permission.

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We Should Be Investing in People and Things Other Than War

Jake Johnson

Jake Johnson is a staff writer at Common Dreams and an agenda contributor at the World Economic Forum. His work focuses on inequality, corporate malfeasance, and progressive politics.

In this viewpoint, Jake Johnson examines how Senator Bernie Sanders has leveraged wealth inequality and perceived oligarchic economic conditions as the centerpiece of his platform and political identity. Sanders argues that inequality and corruption go hand-in-hand with authoritarianism and oligarchy. The US political and economic system is controlled by an elite group of billionaires. Instead, the people should have that power, and this can only be achieved by investing in children, education, the elderly, and health care, rather than in war.



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