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War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
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The oligarchs in America didn’t rule directly, he argued, but instead used their fortunes to produce political results that favored their interests. As the left-leaning Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize–winning economist, put it, “Wealth begets power, which begets more wealth.”
Jane Mayer • Dark Money
On Yeltsin’s watch, the ignorance of many, combined with the cleverness of a few, allowed for the biggest, fastest, and most egregiously unjust reallocation of wealth and resources in the history of the world. It was klepto-capitalism on a monumental scale, but it wasn’t the first time. The Bolsheviks had done something similar under Lenin.
John Vaillant • The Tiger
a concerted effort by the Kremlin, stepped up since Putin’s reelection in 2012, to use asymmetrical, nonmilitary means to achieve its goals of weakening the European Union and NATO and undermining faith in globalism and Western democratic liberalism.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Facebook was the Trump campaign’s largest source of cash.
Sarah Wynn-Williams • Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
“Trump is a creature of 1980s Manhattan, when the latest Andrew Lloyd Webber show was perennially the hottest ticket in town. He appears to be a genuine fan of Lloyd Webber, whose glitzy, maximalist aesthetic must speak to Trump’s own gilded heart, but he is also a product of a moment when the elite power brokers of Manhattan one-upped each other
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