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Never Trust an Oligarch
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
11 Feb 2019
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Super-rich people’s “charitable” contributions “haven’t done anything to halt inequality,” said Dr Carl Rhodes, of the University of Technology, in Sydney, Australia. “If anything, it justifies the political system that produced the inequality in the first place,” said Rhodes.

Oligarchy

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