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Updates: Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The data in the table above and for all billionaires is available here. Even among billionaires, wealth is highly concentrated. Roughly $400...

National Donor-Advised Funds Are Hiding Behind Donation Processors to Make Themselves Look Better

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). National donor-advised fund sponsors — particularly those affiliated with for-profit wealth management firms — often claim that they “democratize giving” by...

5 Charts on Our Broken CEO Pay and Corporate Tax Systems

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Want to know just how bad the problems of corporate tax dodging and excessive executive pay have gotten?  In a new report, the...

Biden’s Populist Budget Marks the Overdue End of Trickle-Down Economics

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo by Samuel Corum (Getty Images) A budget that reflects the needs of the people rather than corporate profit and...

Black Punk Means Liberation – Institute for Policy Studies

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Probably no musical or cultural art form exists in a more contradictory space than punk. When firing on all cylinders, punk...

Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth: Up 88% over Four Years

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Four years ago, the U.S. entered the Covid-19 pandemic. Forbes published its 34th annual billionaire survey shortly after with data keyed...

The Gilded Age Then, The Gildest Age Now

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). How many people in India are going hungry? Researchers working on the Global Hunger Index are currently tracking 125 nations across...

Militarized Funding in Biden Budget Totals Well Over $1 Trillion (and it will grow)

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Today the White House released President Biden’s budget proposal, including a proposal for $1.6 trillion in discretionary spending for FY 2025, which begins...

Gaza Shows Food Air Drops Often Take Lives Instead of Saving Them

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). SOUTHERN ISRAEL, ISRAEL – MARCH 10: An Air drop over Gaza as seen from a position on the Israeli side...

New Report from Americans for Tax Fairness and Institute for Policy Studies Reveals 35...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS BELOW Washington, D.C. – Dozens of big profitable corporations paid their top executives more in compensation than they...

Crypto firm moved $4.2m of assets to digital wallet linked to alleged Russian arms...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A U.K. cryptocurrency firm transferred digital assets worth more...

REPORT: More for Them, Less for Us: Corporations That Pay Their Executives More Than...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Tesla 5-year Executive Pay: $2.5 billion5-year U.S. Profit: $4.4 billion5-year Federal Income Tax: -$1 million (0.0%) Tesla began 2024 as the 8th most...

Haiti crisis: UN mission announces airbridge to facilitate aid relief

The UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said on Wednesday that the air corridor will enable the transport of aid and ensure the safe...

Corporations That Pay Their Executives More Than Uncle Sam

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In his State of the Union address, President Biden called out “massive executive pay” and vowed to “make big corporations and...

Firm related to sanctioned crypto exchange Garantex is a partner of Moscow gang leader...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A firm with multiple connections to sanctioned...

Destroying the Lawn in Gaza

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News ( www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Ever since it withdrew its settlements in 2005, Israel has periodically attacked Gaza. This shelling of locations throughout...

Crypto firm moved $4.2m of assets to digital wallet linked to alleged Russian arms...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A U.K. cryptocurrency firm transferred digital assets worth more...

Parsing Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Biden delivered his fourth State of the Union address in a chamber where, just four years ago, police were fending off...

Venezuela pulls German TV station Deutsche Welle off the air after critical report

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Bogotá, March 7, 2024—The Venezuelan government must allow German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle and other international news channels to broadcast freely...

How to Deconstruct the New Iron Curtain

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News ( www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). The head of the U.S. Strategic Command told Congress last week that a powerful set of countries is...

Spyware firm Intellexa hit with US sanctions after Cyprus Confidential exposé

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The United States has sanctioned notorious spyware consortium Intellexa,...

The Foreign Policy Issue That Could Decide the U.S. Presidential Election

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Presidential elections in the United States are almost always decided by domestic issues. Once in a while a global concern like...

Uncensored Black History Offers Lessons in Global Struggles for Liberation

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Our time is shaped by Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza. But it is also shaped by the largest mobilization of opposition...

Writing About Yourself Isn’t Inherently Selfish

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In 2015, the Nobel Prize–winning novelist J. M. Coetzee published a book called The Good Story that he co-authored with a clinical psychologist...