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Paul Street, Z Communications: Many Americans tend to focus on election funding alone when discussing how the nation s political system is unduly controlled by concentrated wealth. However, campaign finance is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how big corporations and financial institutions dominate US politics and policy.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12337-money-talks-in-many-ways-election-season-reflections-on-how-the-ruling-class-rules



Lies of Plutocracy: Exploding Five Myths that Dehumanize the Poor

Jeff Nall, Truthout: If you believe that poverty is the domain of the comfortably poor, black, unemployed, unmotivated and uneducated among us, you have been sadly misled. Prepare to be astonished by numbers that tell a very different story.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12264-lies-of-plutocracy-exploding-five-myths-that-dehumanize-the-poor



It s Time for the Poor to Come Out of the Plutocracy s Closet of Shame

Jeff Nall, Truthout: We must resist the dominant cultural shaming of the poor and poverty: Here are some ways to begin.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12457-time-for-the-poor-to-come-out-of-the-plutocracys-closet-of-shame



Why We Fight to Prevent Stolen Elections in 2012 and Beyond

Joan Brunwasser, Sally Castleman, Victoria Collier, Bob Fitrakis, Lori Grace, Emily Levy, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Jonathan Simon and Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press: Which candidate gets your vote is not our concern here. As Americans, we agree on one thing: All citizens must have their right to a ballot and to have it counted.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12492-why-we-fight-to-prevent-stolen-elections-in-2012-and-beyond



The Corporate Masters of the Universe

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: In 2010, as austerity hit Greece hard, we elected a caucus of Republicans h...-bent on doing the bidding of American corporate masters and bringing austerity to the United States.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12512-the-corporate-masters-of-the-universe

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Ten Numbers the Rich Would Like Fudged
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