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      Peter Thiel

      Behind Trump's Possible Arrest and the Latest Banking Crisis Lurks the Billionaire Oligarchy

      Ultra-rich individuals like Peter Thiel are a key part of the anti-democracy movement, of which Trump is the informal leader.

      Robert Reich
      Mar 24, 2023

      What connects the two biggest stories now dominating the news — Donald Trump’s likely arrest and the Fed’s bailouts of shaky banks?

      Start with multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and follow the money.

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      Right-wing billionaire Charles Koch

      Be Not Fooled by Charlatan Koch

      Far from having retreated from politics as he claimed in 2020, Koch is approaching victory in the goals he has pursued patiently and relentlessly for more than a half-century.

      Nancy Maclean
      Lisa Graves
      Jan 04, 2023

      In November 2020, just two weeks after the most divisive U.S. election of our lifetimes, billionaire Charles Koch published a book called Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World. A few days before that, on November 13, The Wall Street Journal published a story with the headline “Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake.” Koch, the article noted, wanted a “final act building bridges across political divides.”

      The same day, The Washington Post headlined a puff piece about the book: “Charles Koch congratulates Biden and says he wants to work together on ‘as many issues as possible.’ ” The writer, political columnist James Hohmann, informed his readers that the chief executive officer of Koch Industries said “there is too much hate in the country and lamented how emboldened extremists have become” (Hohmann’s words). Nearly all of the major media outlets that reported on the book carried similar exclamatory quotes from Koch about his investments in the Republican Party: “Boy, did we screw up.” “What a mess!” “This is crazy! Are we going to have a civil war?”

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      A patient with Covid in a hospital.

      Anti-Vax, Anti-Mask Rhetoric Has Long Roots in U.S. History

      The ideological mix of rugged individualism, freedom, and liberty had become deeply embedded among a large swath of Americans, further poisoned by centuries of structural racism that persists today. 


      Chuck Idelson
      Sep 13, 2021

      If those protesting mandatory vaccination and masking have a familiar sounding message, it's probably because as what Carmen Miranda brands as "toxic individualism" and the misleading rants about "freedom" and "liberty," have long roots in the U.S. dating back to the first footprints of English settlers on this continent.

      Whether in the Jamestown or Plymouth colonies, the "freedom" they espoused was premised on land expropriated from the indigenous people, and, especially in the Virginia environs, by "defining it against the bondage of the Africans among them," as Heather McGhee writes in her recent book "The Sum of Us."

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