SCOOP! Billionaire Larry Fink Just Blew The Whistle On The Global "Free Market" Scam
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There are times when, for just a quick moment, if you look really hard, a veil is lifted and you can see quite clearly the deep corruption of the economic system that impoverishes millions. Sometimes, it’s the actual lords of capital who, unintentionally, give everyone a glimpse—either because they goof or, more typically, they say something revealing about the system that seems pretty normal to them.
It’s really on us to catch these moments because the incompetent media mainly salutes the entire system, with very little critical analysis—how could you analyze if you don’t read and simply traffic in gossip, and spend most of your time bowing down at the feet of CEOs, praising them on cable news and elsewhere as the great “job creators”? By the way, the alternative progressive media isn’t much better because, frankly, most of the loudmouths who spew on podcasts and websites are mostly about building an audience, and making money, by feeding peoples’ understandable anger at the …
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