On AlterNet: oligarchy

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Wealth Defense Industry: The Real Reason America's Oligarchs Can Squeeze the Rest of Us

Jeffrey A. Winters, In These Times. April 9, 2012.

How the richest of the rich stay on top.

Using Debt to Crush Democracy: How Financiers Are Waging Warfare Against Nations

Michael Hudson, Michael Hudson's blog. December 6, 2011.

Recent debt protests from Iceland to Greece and Spain suggest that creditors are shifting their support away from democracies and crushing national self-determination.

Goon-Squad Politics: How the Wisc. GOP Trampled Democracy to Appease Wealthy Backers

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. March 9, 2011.

When Wisconsin's G.O.P. senators couldn't get what they wanted in an open process, they resorted to goon-squad democracy. You got a problem wi' dat?

The Economic Elite Have Engineered an Extraordinary Coup, Threatening the Very Existence of the Middle Class

David DeGraw, Amped Status. February 15, 2010.

The economic elite have robbed us all. The amount of suffering in the United States of America is literally a crime against humanity.

Who Should Resist, and Who Will Become Serfs?

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. April 7, 2009.

If we don't stop the rapacious looting of the public treasury, we'll be left with trillions in debts and a robust police state.

Even More than Race, the South Is About Exploiting Workers

Joseph B. Atkins, Progressive Populist. March 13, 2009.

The heart of Southern conservatism is the preservation of a status quo that serves elite interests.

Porn's Dirty, Dangerous Secret

Robert Jensen, Last Exit. October 21, 2008.

There are a finite number of ways that human bodies can fit together. So pornmakers resort to sexualizing degradation to stay "cutting edge."