Democracy is an illusion! It’s become a political system fostered by the élite, for the élite, in order to fool the people that they have a stake in the system. In actual fact, they have virtually none. The whole political system in the modern era, despite having noble beginnings, is now used to benefit the few at the expense of the many. – Mark Alexander, June 29, 2018
Tuesday 15 August 2017
Economic Update: Faith & Labor Fight Inequality
This week’s Economic Update takes a look at how golf courses are economically undemocratic, how pharmaceutical corporations work to block cheaper drug imports, why corporations in the U.S. do not need or deserve tax cuts, how Monsanto bought academic research to keep its dangerous "Roundup" product on the market, and the politics and economics of scapegoating immigrants in the US and Germany.
