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MMT. Claire Connelly — Medium What are taxes actually for? Claire Connelly | Lead writer @ Renegade Inc. Founder of Hello Humans

There are over 1.1 billion websites on the internet, but the vast majority of all traffic actually goes to a very select list of them. Google.com, for example, has an astounding 28 billion visits per month. The next closest is also a Google-owned property, Youtube.com, which brings in 20.5 billion visits. Today’s infographic comes to us from Vodien, and it lists the 100 highest ranking websites in the U.S. by traffic, according to website analytics company Alexa.... Visual CapitalistThe...

Hysteria reigned supreme after the first round of US sanctions were reinstated against Iran over the past week. War scenarios abound, and yet the key aspect of the economic war unleashed by the Trump administration has been overlooked: Iran is a major piece in a much larger chessboard. The US sanctions offensive, launched after Washington’s unilateral pullout from the Iran nuclear deal, should be interpreted as an advance gambit in the New Great Game at whose center lies China’s New Silk...

But here’s a simple fact which ought to illustrate, in a sense, the question you’ve asked: This is an extremely undemocratic arrangement. What do I mean? Well, the number of people that make all the key decisions in American corporations, and by that I mean deciding what to produce, deciding how, deciding what technology to use, deciding the physical geographic location—will it be produced in Cincinnati or in Shanghai, etc.—and finally, what to do with the profits that the labor of all the...

It’s a game changer.

This was on the front page of the Iowa City Press-Citizen yesterday. The article also reported rising sales of bulletproof glass.FortuneBulletproof Backpacks: A Must-Have for Back-to-School in 2018? Brittany Shoot

“There’s a fundamental problem with our economy. For decades, American workers have helped create record corporate profits but have seen their wages hardly budge,” Warren said in an announcement of the bill. “My bill will help the American economy return to the era when American companies and American workers did well together.”... Whether the proposal would actually do that is going to be quite controversial. At least is is about preemption and accountability, which is a step in the...

Of interest.The GuardianGuernsey resident halts roadworks with ancient plea Nadeem Badshah

You knew it was headed here, didn't you?Not just Billary either. John Brennan is being outed as the master mind. Obama up to eyeballs?Bill Browder's story is also weakening in spite of massive efforts to subvert any mention of it in the "news"And curious minds are inquiring, where is Christopher Steele?A friend o famine and no friend of Trump asked this morning whether I thought that Alex Jones was taken down in preparation for the mid-term election because of his reach.Could the worm be...

A gentle call to action — before it is too late.Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistTake Chances Caitlin Johnstone