The International Monetary Fund approved $500 million on Monday to cancel six months of debt payments for 25 of the world’s most impoverished countries so they can help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
How did the Nordic countries become more equal? Simple: they attacked the wealth of the super rich.
Fifty years after Martin Luther King called for a march to Washington, D.C., to draw attention to poverty in America, the Poor People’s Campaign is being revived. Led by the Rev. William Barber, marches from across the nation will again head to the nation’s capital on June 23.
In Los Angeles, one of America’s richest cities, with the backdrop of Hollywood glitz and glamour for the wealthy, privileged elite luxuriating in their sprawling, majestic estates, a staggering 60,000 people live without shelter, many sleeping on the disease-infested sidewalks, while the country’s 3 richest billionaires hoard more wealth than the bottom 50% of all Americans.
1891 essay by Oscar Wilde — the brilliant author, poet, flamboyant hedonist, and most clever, unconventional raconteur — in which he expounds his insightful, prophetic vision for an anarchic, libertarian socialist society in which freedom, art, and individuality can thrive, and a damning critique of charity and private property.
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