Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year

The richest 0.001% now have three times as much wealth as the poorer half of humanity combined.

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If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Greenland, Danish naval boat

Danish intelligence has declared the United States, alongside Russia and China, as a threat to national security for Denmark and Europe. It warns that the US may use military force against its own partners and allies.

This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical.
Thinking it isn’t is.

Look at this chart.

Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?

Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds.

This is obscene.

That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.

We are the 99.999%.

Tax the super rich.

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Great financial crisis? You mean when the housing market collapsed, banks went under, our GDP sank, the working class lost trillions in net worth and unemployment soared?

Seems like a repeat of the last time we tried to bully the world with isolationist tariffs.

Not good.

When a billionaire with major government contracts & ties to authoritarian governments calls to "Abolish the EU," it is not an ordinary political opinion. It is a foreign state actor hostile to European democracy, pushing terrorist rhetoric, and destabilizing regional security.

Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵

If anyone in Europe was still clinging to the idea that the Trump administration isn't immovably pro-Russian and hostile to Western institutions and values, they need to read the 2025 National Security Strategy and think again.

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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.

It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

- Garry Kasparov

❗️Prime Minister of Poland Tusk: Dear American friends, Europe is your closest ally, not your problem. And we have common enemies. At least that's how it has been in the last 80 years. We need to stick to this, this is the only reasonable strategy of our common security. Unless something has changed.

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.

Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.

This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

The Golden Age.

Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Tortured in Small 'Box,' Amnesty International Says Migrants were allegedly sent to what detainees described as a four-by-four-foot "box" as punishment.

Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Tortured in Small ‘Box,’ Amnesty International Says

Migrants were allegedly sent to what detainees described as a four-by-four-foot "box" as punishment.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.

Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln X.com President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress convicted of crimes varying from tax evasion, campaign corruption, lying to the FBI, bribery, insider trading, obstruction, etc. If Jeff Epstein were alive today, he'd be a free man in Trump's America.

#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid—

It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market

Magaziner: "This is not about the drugs. This is about oil."

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

He conspired to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the country and was “at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.” He even said his goal was to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” Now, thanks to Trump, he is a free man. 2/2

🇩🇪🇺🇦🇺🇸 German General Christian Freuding says the most unsettling change in Europe isn’t happening on the battlefield but in Washington, - The Atlantic

The direct lines he once had to U.S. defense officials “day and night” have been “cut off—really cut off.”

We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.

“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.