@benb@osintua.eu2026-02-05 23:48:15
Editorial: What happens when oligarchs own media: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/06/editorial-what-happens-when-oligarchs.html
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-12-03 20:23:59
"Russian oligarch, Mikhail Fridman... [may] use the tribunal to challenge the sanctions the UK levied against him after the invasion of Ukraine. He has already started suing Luxembourg for this reason, demanding $16bn (£12.1bn): half that government’s annual revenue. Among the lawyers representing him there? Cherie Blair, wife of the former British prime minister"
#Kleptocrats<…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 23:58:38
Alex Vindman here.
The Wall Street Journal broke the news that Trump’s chief negotiator,
Steve Witkoff,
met with Russian oligarchs about lucrative post-war business opportunities.
It’s clear:
Trump’s so-called “peace plan”
is a vehicle for appeasement and personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.
The objective isn't peace and stability for Ukraine — it’s money.
There’s no other way to look at this but as corruption at…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-03 17:43:09
Venezuela will be administered by "a group of people"?
I think he means oligarchs?
#uspol
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-02-02 19:30:19
Wow, this is good to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2qEyQ_0C-8 I wonder when Aotearoa NZ will work out that it's in this hole at least as deep as France? Will this coalition keep licking the Trump administration's boots? Those of the BigTech oligarchs?
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-11 21:20:58
Trump and the Oligarchs Are Killing Corporate Media (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-the-oligarchs-are-killing
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p109#a251211p109
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 04:42:44
You remember the pictures.
The images of tech oligarchs kissing the ring at President Trump’s inauguration were instantly iconic,
markers of a new and rather unnerving era.
But months earlier, Trump made a corrosive pact with another set of moguls,
and that one is already remaking global politics,
wiping out jobs at home and strangling what little hope was left of avoiding a climate disaster.
This one happened behind closed doors.
These moguls wer…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-11-17 21:49:25
Who's the real enemy now? Extremely wealthy people (oligarchs) and large corporations (especially in health, fossil fuels, media, & tech). Everything else is probably manageable. We need to hobble the extremely wealthy and the mega corporations. We need to end the 'corporations-as-person' model. as well. It is untenable. That also means rejecting, explicitly & systemically, groups like the Atlas Network/Project 2025.
For the record, these have long been the enemy, b…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-10 18:34:47
Ukraine's secret backchannels to Russia — from oligarchs to spies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/ukraines-secret-backchannels-to-russia.html
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-20 16:25:35
If these idiots want to debate provocative questions to further their reactionary movement,
I propose we have a similar set of debates like
"should we toss billionaires into volcanoes" or
"should we launch the oligarchs into the sun?"
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