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RSN: Bernie Sanders: American Oligarchy Keeps Progressive Policies From Advancing

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19 May 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WHO OUT THERE CAN ACTUALLY DONATE? - We only need a few donations. Who can just go ahead and make a donation? Should be different people than last time. Who can step up and do this? We're asking? With urgency. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Bernie Sanders: American Oligarchy Keeps Progressive Policies From Advancing  Nicole Gaudiano, USA TODAY Gaudiano writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders, speaking at a policy forum here Tuesday, identified a singular roadblock to achieving success on a host of progressive policies - and it wasn't the Trump administration." READ MORE Donald Trump. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Business Has Never Been Better if You're a Lobbyist With Ties to Donald Trump Libby Watson, Splinter News Watson writes: "It's Friday, and Washington, DC is still a corrupt cesspool! USA Today reported today tha...

RSN: Rebecca Gordon | Want to Bring Down Trump? Follow the People Who Follow the Money

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01 May 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOCUS: Rebecca Gordon | Want to Bring Down Trump? Follow the People Who Follow the Money  Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch Gordon writes: "Maybe bookkeepers and accountants deserve a little more respect. They're often the ones who actually bring down corrupt officials through dogged attention to those 'irrelevant' distractions." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

Bernie Sanders | The Corporate Media Ignores the Rise of Oligarchy. The Rest of Us Shouldn't

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16 March 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE ARE FIGHTING FOR A "BASIC BUDGET" - This is not the budget we want, or the budget we could put to good use. This is about a bare-bones budget to run RSN. Today so far eight thousand people have visited RSN. If 10% of them had stopped for a moment and made a donation this fundraising drive would be over now. That is really all it takes. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Bernie Sanders | The Corporate Media Ignores the Rise of Oligarchy. The Rest of Us Shouldn't  Bernie Sanders, Guardian UK Sanders writes: "The rapid rise of oligarchy and wealth and income inequality is the great moral, economic, and political issue of our time. Yet, it gets almost no coverage from the corporate media." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

Robert Reich | It Was a Trade War That Helped Cause the Great Depression

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03 March 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Robert Reich | It Was a Trade War That Helped Cause the Great Depression  Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page Reich writes: "Trump this morning: 'When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don't trade anymore - we win big. It's easy!'" READ MORE National Rifle Association members look over pistols in the Remington display at the 146th NRA annual exhibit on 29 April 2017, in Atlanta, Georgia. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images) ALSO SEE:  Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About the NRA but Were Too Embarrassed to Ask When Gun Owners Meet for the NRA Convention, Gun Injury Rates Seem to Decline Julia Belluz, Vox Belluz writes: "America has around one mas...