Oligarchy

Is it an oligarchy?

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/economic-justice/is-the-us-witnessing-the-rise-of-oligarchy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/what-is-oligarchy

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOgBF3RIUv8&list=WL&index=4

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

1971

1971-08-03 Virginian corporate attorney Lewis Powell wrote a confidential 8-page memo “Attack on American Free Enterprise System” outlining efforts for corporations to take over universities and media. He was later nominated by Nixon to the US Supreme Court in 1972. He sat on the Phillips-Morris board and argued cigarettes did not cause cancer.

https://www.inequalitymedia.org/explainers/v/the-powell-memo

https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/powellmemo.html

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klVyGr3rnAE&list=WL&index=2&t=155s

2025 January

2025-01-20 The Big Beautiful Bill expanded tax cuts that disproportionately benefit high-income earners, with the top 1% receiving over $1T in tax cuts over the next decade.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/7-ways-the-big-beautiful-bill-cuts-taxes-for-the-rich/

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-tax-cuts-2024-election-rich-corporations

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/by-the-numbers-harmful-republican-megabill-favors-the-wealthy-and-leaves

https://democrats-budget.house.gov/resources/fact-sheet/trumps-big-ugly-law-steals-poor-give-ultra-rich

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/by-the-numbers-house-republican-tax-agenda-favors-the-wealthy-and-leaves

https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/extending-trumps-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-will-shrink-the-economy-cbo-finds/

2026 August

2026-08-05 Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Senate primary campaigning on Medicare for all, ending aid to Israel, and getting money out of politics. Trump said on Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI), “He’s a man of hate. He doesn’t love Israel, he doesn’t love Jewish people, he hates ‘em. He hates ‘em with a passion that burns in his heart and there’s not a freaking thing he can do about it”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/michigan-senate-primary-results-abdul-el-sayed

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/abdul-el-sayed-won-michigan-results-illustrate-challenges-ahead-rcna591052

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67SarATXnE&list=WL&index=5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9mHl8f7OH4&list=WL&index=4

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6012517-trump-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-primary/

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/06/president-trump-accuses-abdul-el-sayed-hates-jews-full-shi/91197410007/

2026-08-11 A US oil company linked to Trump called Greenland energy announced they plan to drill in Greenland without local approval

https://globalnews.ca/news/12015693/us-oil-firm-drilling-equipment-greenland/

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/11/headlines/trump_linked_oil_company_preparing_to_drill_in_greenland

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-appears-to-be-renewing-his-push-for-control-of-greenland/