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About The 4th Media

The 4th Media, is an independent media organization based in Beijing, China.

The company combines a series of communication services to comprehensively build a network of new media platforms with contents that satisfy the needs of a wide and diversified audience.

The website focuses particularly on young people and carries across the vision of the youth and Chinese identity while engaging in issues of global concerns, thereby intends to build a network for the youth to connect and also to be connected with the world and freely share their views with the people around the globe.

The Website is also a media platform to meet and encourage healthy, constructive and progressive minds for empowerment with a humble vision for a better future of the whole humanity.

The 4th Media, a English Website (https://www.4thmedia.org), provides “Just Another Voice” in the progressive media global landscape.

With the new media platform, words, images, audio and video clips are combined to reach out to the audience in an active manner, the April Media tries to satisfy multicultural and personalized needs of the youth by providing information and entertainment, interactive applications, micro blog sharing and building communities.

Our platform translates relevant information, news analyses from both mainstream and progressive independent foreign media outlets to the Chinese speaking audience and vice-versa.

In order to give a true and more objective picture of the world, we also package hot issues in current affairs, arguments, media critiques, celebrity news, youth topics and literary communication, etc. We do news, audio and video editing.

The 4th Media’s International Team 

Editor-in-Chief (Korean-American)

Kiyul Chung (PhD, Visiting Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

International Advisory Board

Chair: Prof. Michel Chossudovsky (Canada)

Mr. Abayomi Azikiwe (USA/African-American)

Prof. Anis Bajrectarevic (Austria/Former Federal Republic of Yugosaliva)

Dr. Christof Lehmann (Germany/Denmark)

Prof. James M. Craven (USA/Canada/The Blackfoot Nation)

Prof. John C. Raines (USA)

Prof. Kwame Akonor (USA/Africa)

Prof. Murray Hunter (USA/Malaysia)

Dr. Tim Beal (New Zealand)

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The Fall And Rise Of U.S. Inequality, In 2 Graphs

The Fall And Rise Of U.S. Inequality, In 2 Graphs

FEBRUARY 11, 2015 1:05 PM ET

Since World War II, inequality in the U.S. has gone through two, dramatically different phases.

In the first phase, known as the great compression, inequality fell. Incomes rose for people in the bottom 90 percent of the income distribution, as the postwar boom led to high demand for workers with low and moderate skills.

At the same time, income was basically stagnant for the top 1 percent of earners. A combination of high marginal tax rates (around 80 percent) for the wealthy, and social norms, may have kept a lid on wages at the top, according to the economists who gathered the data we used to make the graphs.

In the last 35 years, the reverse occurred. Top marginal tax rates fell sharply. Incomes rose for those in the top 1 percent, largely driven by rapidly rising pay for top executives.

At the same time, a combination of global competition, automation, and declining union membership, among other factors, led to stagnant wages for most workers.

In theory, it should be possible for incomes to rise for everyone at the same time — for the gains of economic growth to be broadly distributed year after year. But the takeaway from these graphs is that since World War II, that’s never really happened in the U.S.
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The New American Order: 1% Elections, The Privatization of the State, …

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The New American Order: 1% Elections, The Privatization of the State, …

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Tom Engelhardt | Friday, March 20, 2015, 22:28 Beijing

1% Elections, The Privatization of the State, a Fourth Branch of Government, and the Demobilization of “We the People”

Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider this piece my version of that, and let me put what I do understand about it in a nutshell: based on developments in our post-9/11 world, we could be watching the birth of a new American political system and way of governing for which, as yet, we have no name.

And here’s what I find strange: the evidence of this, however inchoate, is all around us and yet it’s as if we can’t bear to take it in or make sense of it or even say that it might be so.

Let me make my case, however minimally, based on five areas in which at least the faint outlines of that new system seem to be emerging: political campaigns and elections; the privatization of Washington through the marriage of the corporation and the state; the de-legitimization of our traditional system of governance; the empowerment of the national security state as an untouchable fourth branch of government; and the demobilization of “we the people.”
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