Oligarchs

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  4/21/2022
  

  Union Organizing in the Long Shadow of the Gilded Age

  by Daisy Pitkin

  On listening to Andrew Carnegie's "The Gospel of Wealth" in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library as librarians perform the kind of social services Carnegie deplored (and try to organize a union, which he deplored more). 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/29/2022
  

  How Putin Conquered Russia's Oligarchs

  A key for Putin's consolidation of power was not eliminating the post-Soviet oligarchy but shaking it down for protection money and political obedience.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/9/2022
  

  The West, and United States, Undermine Sanctions with their Financial Institutions

  by Casey Michel

  American law supports many of the instruments of international financial crime, and American banks and law firms staff them, because they are profitable and useful to oligarchs from around the world. Sanctions on Russian oligarchs will fail unless there is a crackdown on oligarchs in general. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2022
  

  Yad Vashem Hopes to Shield Oligarch and Major Donor Roman Abramovich from Sanctions

  “Mr. Abramovich has contributed to worthy causes for more than a decade,” [Yad Vashem chair Dani] Dayan said. “As far as I know, Mr. Abramovich doesn’t have any links to Mr. Putin.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/26/2022
  

  Seize the Oligarchs' Wealth

  by Faith Hillis

  Seizing assets and cracking down on money laundering is the best chance to turn Russia's oligarchical ruling class away from aggression in Ukraine.