'Shadow Elite': Outsourcing Government, Losing Democracy

Professor, Founding Executive Editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University James Madison famously wrote in the Federalist Papers (#51), "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." We've learned the hard way, most starkly in the Great Depression and now in the Great Recession, that men and women are anything but angels, and that government first and foremost must protect the American people from the unmitigated avarice ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jan 13, 2010 - 8:10 AM PST
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The review and comments touch upon the critical loss of democracy in the last few decades, and the deafening silence regarding any protest of the situation.

Democracy is ill, the myth of its health is promoted by the rich heirs to democracy's bank account.

Public and private are now substantially blurred, as the “transnational” political elites and the financial elites have become literally the same people. It is ... More »

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