{"id":280111,"date":"2024-11-18T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=280111"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:03:06","slug":"these-10-companies-run-the-us-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/11\/these-10-companies-run-the-us-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"These 10 Companies Run the US \u2018Democracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 Nov 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">The bigger picture of what the United States is and how it operates often gets lost on people. Many think that choosing one or another candidate will better represent their values, but in reality there is only one group of people that matter: those who Dr. Peter Phillips, professor emeritus at Sonoma State University, calls the \u201ctitans of capital.\u201d Phillips studied the economic trends following the COVID-19 pandemic and how the wealth concentration in the world took a dramatic turn towards the already ultra-wealthy. He joins host Robert Scheer to further analyze these trends and how dire inequality is becoming.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"These 10 companies run our \u2018democracy\u2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RHpKQv4E0WQ?start=16&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Nov 2024 &#8211; Many think that choosing one or another candidate will better represent their values, but there is only one group that matters: the \u201ctitans of capital.\u201d Dr. Peter Phillips studied the economic trends following the COVID-19 pandemic and how the wealth concentration in the world took a dramatic turn towards the already ultra-wealthy elites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[3225,232,1868,392,555,2059,109,1213,70,1557,75],"class_list":["post-280111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-billionaires","tag-capitalism","tag-covid-19","tag-elections","tag-elites","tag-organized-crime","tag-politics","tag-super-rich","tag-usa","tag-wall-street","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280115,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280111\/revisions\/280115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}