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The first day of the Strike WEF march on Davos on 18th of January 2020 near Davos, Switzerland. The first day of the march started in Lanquart with speeches and hot food and ended in Schiers. The protest is planned to finish in Davos with a public meeting in the town on the day the WEF begins. The march is a three day protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. The activists want climate justice and think that The WEF is for the world's richest and political elite only. (Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Ultra-rich: "It's taxes or pitchforks"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg ( Callaghan O'Hare/RvS.Media/Basile Barbey/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump rebukes Thunberg as "very angry"

Matthew Rozsa
People holding a banner reading 'capitalism kills' attend a protest march against the G20 Summit with the topic 'Solidarity without borders instead of G20' in Hamburg, Germany on July 8, 2017. Organizerg spoke of about 70.000 participants to the demonstration. (Emmanuele Contini/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Global poll: Capitalism is harmful

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
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Carlson defends profanity-laced segment

Shira Tarlo
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Bill Pugliano)

AOC: Billionaires fear tax on super-rich

Shira Tarlo
Maxine Waters; Jamie Dimon (AP/Getty/Salon)

Wall St CEOs huddle with Maxine Waters

Igor Derysh
Participants are silhouetted against a picture of the planet Earth on a giant screen during a panel session on the closing day of the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (Laurent Gillieron/dpa via AP) (AP)

Robert Reich: The fall of Davos man

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
A worker vacuum-cleans the carpet inside the Congress Center ahead of the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP) (AP)

Reality creeps into the billionaire club

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
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Too soon to toast Trump

Charles Hankla - The Conversation
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Mnuchin’s weak-dollar is dangerous

Benjamin J. Cohen - The Conversation
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Trump promotes trade wars at trade forum

Matthew Rozsa
Thomas Piketty (Reuters/Charles Platiau/Photo montage by Salon)

This is why Piketty matters

Janine R. Wedel
Burial team in protective gear carry a body of woman suspected to have died from Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia, Oct, 18, 2014. (AP/Abbas Dulleh)

"Viruses do not need visas"

Joanna Rothkopf

Prachi Gupta
Elite seclusion at Davos (Wikimedia/Flyout)

Natasha Lennard
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