Shadow Elite Janine Wedel

How the Shadow Elite Is Shorting 'Third World America'

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Janine R. Wedel

In Arianna's new book, she details the growing the ranks of "Third World Americans." With a small group of self-interested players at the helm, "democracy goes on the auction block."

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Shadow Elite: Why Sarah Palin's Really Selling Big Government

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Janine R. Wedel

If Sarah Palin were truly to "go rogue," to defy establishment "wisdom" of both parties, she'd take on big bad (shadow) government and stop parroting the mantra of "small government."

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Shadow Elite: The Spy Who Came in From... Wall Street?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Janine R. Wedel

What are we to make of the BIA? Is it an offshoot of the CIA? As they trundle back and forth between Wall Street and Washington, does the information the CIA officers glean in one venue seep into the other?

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'Shadow Elite' Author Interview: Janine Wedel And HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Dan Froomkin Discuss January's Book Club Pick (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Did you miss it? We've wrapped up our exploration of Arianna's second book club pick, Janine Wedel's "Shadow Elite". To finish things off, HuffPost W...

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Did the Russian Shadow Elite Bail Out the U.S. Auto Industry?

Dr. Donald N. Jensen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Donald N. Jensen

How rewarding to people like Oleg Deripaska that after the indignities Russia suffered at the hands of the West in the 90s, they today see the flow of power and money in the opposite direction.

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'Shadow Elite': Information Is Power And Who's Controlling Our Information?

Gary Lyndaker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gary Lyndaker

Tight budgets and political forces are driving Missouri and other state governments toward operating in an emergency mode and we respond by privatizing more government work.

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