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Opinion: The World Has Reached Peak Plutocracy

Opinion: The World Has Reached Peak Plutocracy
We see people frustrated by the surge in the power of the plutocrats. Plutocracy is a society or a system ruled and dominated by a small minority of the wealthiest. The rich have always been powerful; some element of plutocracy has been present in all ...
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Plutocracy the First Time Around
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and What came to be known as the Great Upheaval, the movement for the eight-hour day, elicited what one historian has called “a strange enthusiasm.” The normal ...
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Bernie Sanders Is The Future Of The Democratic Party
... it's intuitively or on purpose? Just think about the emotional core (often confused as an intellectual position), the rhetoric, and the focus that propels most ideas liberal toss around about inequality, plutocracy, “democracy” and role of ...
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Lockport volunteers promote city with fantasy collector cards
The story details an alternate history of Lockport, where the city prospered until it had “fallen into darkness” and was run by a reclusive tyrant and a ruthless plutocracy. “I'm an art guy. It's what I do for a living,” Streit said about his ...
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Inequality is a disease, voter turnout the cure
America is slouching toward plutocracy, and democracy is the only cure. But that won't happen magically overnight; national research establishes definitively that governmental responses to inequality will be determined by who votes. In the 2010 midterm ...
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'The Full Catastrophe,' by James Angelos
He also notes the rundown state of one of Greece's most prestigious universities, a campus festooned with slogans refusing to recognize the debt: “Not a Single Sacrifice for the Plutocracy.” “Though the colonnades of idyllic American colleges are ...
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Understanding and Overcoming America's Plutocracy
Plutocracy has a way of spreading like an epidemic until democracy itself is abandoned. History shows the wreckage of democracies killed from within. And yet America has rallied in the past to push democratic reforms, notably in the Progressive Era ...
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Elmont, New York, Author Publishes New Book

Pittsburgh, PA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 26, 2011

Slaves of Democracy: Financial Crisis or Fraud?, a new book by Frank De Bartolo, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.

Slaves of Democracy: Financial Crisis or Fraud? provides a brief historical overview analyzing how the United States, the world’s model for democracy, morphed into the plutocracy we live in today.

A plutocracy, as De Bartolo explains, is a nation ruled by the wealthy, greedy, unscrupulous minority, who take control over of all capital and resources and, therefore, have absolute power over the economic and political systems.

Slaves of Democracy outlines how the economic policies of President Woodrow Wilson and the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 led to this tumultuous economic climate we live in today.

Frank De Bartolo was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and earned his associate’s degree in engineering from the University of Buenos Aires. Now retired and living with his wife in Elmont, New York, De Bartolo, father of two, is the president and founder of the Argentine/American Forum on Debt Inc.

Slaves of Democracy is a 46-page paperback with a retail price of $ 9.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4349-0839-1. It was published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information, or to request a review copy, please go to our virtual pressroom at http://www.dorrancepressroom.com or our online bookstore at http://www.dorrancebookstore.com.

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