On AlterNet: elites

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How "Real America" Was Utterly Screwed by Political and Economic Elites

Alex Pareene, Salon. April 24, 2012.

The crumbling of once-great institutions isn't to blame for middle-class decline and anger.

Have the Super Wealthy Already Seceded from the United States?

Mike Lofgren, TruthOut.org. January 11, 2012.

Our plutocracy now lives like the British in colonial India: in the place and ruling it, but not of it.

How Do We Know OWS Is Winning? Elites Are Desperate to Suppress It

Yotam Marom, AlterNet. November 22, 2011.

This is what happens when genuine movements emerge with enough force and potential to be taken seriously by those with power and privilege.

3 Ways Elites Rig the System

Michael Lind, Salon. November 9, 2011.

From low capital gains taxes to stock buy-backs, here are the ways the elites ensure the markets benefit them.

What Are the "San Jose Articles"? Don't Be Fooled By the Conservative Global Elites' Latest Ploy to Attack Science, Women, and the United Nations

Jessica Mack, AlterNet. October 25, 2011.

The sum of nine articles are meant to etch away at important gains made by the global reproductive rights community, from liberalizing abortion laws inNepal to Colombia and Mexico.

Shock Doctrine: How Conservatives and Corporate Elites Are Stoking Economic Hysteria to Force Catastrophic Cuts

Robert L. Borosage, Blog for Our Future. August 8, 2011.

Conservative and corporate elites are stoking the turmoil, and using fear to panic a public into accepting harsh measures that would be otherwise unacceptable.

Vision: How to Make Media Reflect the Popular Views of Americans, Not Those of Elites

Paul Rosenberg, AlterNet. May 30, 2011.

We should demand that the media cover the views of the majority.

Why Do People Who Work in Finance Earn So Much More Than the Rest of Us?

Les Leopold, AlterNet. January 21, 2011.

Most Americans rightly sense that our middle-class dominated economy has devolved into a system of financial socialism by and for elites.

Hightower: How Wall Street Elites Are Dynamiting Our Democracy

Jim Hightower, AlterNet. January 6, 2011.

Our society can tolerate such raw selfishness by the privileged few, or it can have democracy. It can't have both.

15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams

David DeGraw, Amped Status. November 21, 2009.

Are we nearing a tipping point as rapacious elites push a heavily armed populace too far?

The Wealthy Elites Play the Racists for Pawns at a Town Hall Meeting in Maryland

Maria Allwine, BuzzFlash. August 12, 2009.

An eyewitness account of the racism and vitriol on display at a town hall protest.

The Best and the Brightest Have Led America Off a Cliff

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. December 9, 2008.

Don't expect the so-called experts to fix it either. They can't. They are loyal to the decaying political and financial systems that empowered them.

Elections in America: Millionaires Accusing Each Other of Elitism

Brad Reed, AlterNet. April 14, 2008.

This country can't afford to have another election decided by the idea that a member of the ruling class is "genuine" and others are "elitist."

Obama Talks Bitterness; Elites Vie for the Sucker Vote

Mister Leonard Pierce, Sadly, No!. April 13, 2008.

Ain't American politics beautiful?