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How Ayn Rand's Bizarre Philosophy Made the New Right so Toxic

George Monbiot, The Guardian. March 7, 2012.

Rand's psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats.

Poverty Is Through the Roof, and Billionaires Are Getting Pissy About Not Enough Profits

Les Leopold, AlterNet. September 17, 2010.

Instead of showing their outrage about the spread of poverty in the richest nation on Earth, the super-rich want us to pity them?

The Really Creepy People Behind the Libertarian-Inspired Billionaire Sea Castles

Mark Ames, AlterNet. June 2, 2010.

The stinking rich are planning billion-dollar luxury liners that keep the land-based Americans they've plundered at a safe distance.

"Hey Dad, Why Does This Country Protect Billionaires, and Not Teachers?"

Les Leopold, AlterNet. May 5, 2010.

Something is really screwed up when we award billions to Wall Street elites for doing things we don’t comprehend, even as we lay off teachers by the thousands.

The Preposterous Reality: 25 Hedge Fund Managers Are Worth 680,000 Teachers (Who Teach 13 Million Students)

Les Leopold, AlterNet. April 10, 2010.

"It’s going to take a lot of political will — over a long period of time — to reorder our most basic economic values."

Conservative Senate Win Is Another Victory for the Billionaire Bailout Society, and a Failure for Progressives

Les Leopold, AlterNet. January 20, 2010.

You can blame Obama for the Senate loss in Mass, but much of the failure also rests with the progressive community.

8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last $

8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last $

Mark Ames, eXiled Online. October 8, 2009.

American billionaires keep cooking up scheme after scheme to shake down Americans and plunder the national wealth, as if the last one was too easy and boring.

Sad News: America's Billionaires Facing Tough Times

Sad News: America's Billionaires Facing Tough Times

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. March 20, 2009.

Have billionaires, as some observers claim, now 'suffered' their way back to the rest of us? Nope.

The World's Billionaires: A New Count, a New Record

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. March 18, 2008.

Forbes' latest list of billionaires reveals a global concentration of wealth that has reached truly staggering proportions.

Billionaire women signal end of inequality!

Ann Friedman, March 15, 2007.

Ann Friedman: Do heiresses prove there's no glass ceiling?

The Richest Year in History

Tula Connell, TomPaine.com. March 15, 2007.

According to Forbes, this is the richest year in human history ... for those people who are already mind-bogglingly rich. But what about the rest of us?

Republican Budget Chairman Paul Ryan Spoke At The Koch Strategy Meeting

Lee Fang, December 31, 1969.


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