{"id":1032,"date":"2008-11-17T03:53:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T08:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2018-08-11T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T07:00:45","slug":"16778-%c2%a0%c2%a0-david-rothkopf-superclass-the-global-power-elite-and-the-world-they-are-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"16778.&nbsp;(David Rothkopf) Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rothkopf has cre\u00adat\u00aded an inten\u00adtion\u00adal rein\u00adcar\u00adna\u00adtion of C. Wright Mills\u2019 old <em>Pow\u00ader Elite<\/em>, but with\u00adout Mills\u2019 ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal fool\u00adish\u00adness. With his unusu\u00adal\u00adly broad expe\u00adri\u00adence in busi\u00adness, jour\u00adnal\u00adism, Wall Street, the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan mil\u00adi\u00adtary, the Intel\u00adli\u00adgence com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty, and gov\u00adern\u00adment \u2015 but nev\u00ader in a posi\u00adtion where he was sub\u00adli\u00admat\u00aded into, or iden\u00adti\u00adfied with the cir\u00adcles of pow\u00ader \u2015 Rothkopf is in an ide\u00adal posi\u00adtion to give a real\u00adis\u00adtic descrip\u00adtion of the rough\u00adly six thou\u00adsand peo\u00adple who exer\u00adcise the most pow\u00ader and influ\u00adence on our globe. I don\u2019t always agree with his analy\u00adsis, and his con\u00adcep\u00adtu\u00adal cat\u00ade\u00adgories are thor\u00adough\u00adly con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal, but the book is essen\u00adtial for any\u00adone who wants to form a plau\u00adsi\u00adble pic\u00adture of how the world works. This has always been the aim of my research\u00ades. Most things in this book ring true, as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rothkopf has cre\u00adat\u00aded an inten\u00adtion\u00adal rein\u00adcar\u00adna\u00adtion of C. Wright Mills\u2019 old Pow\u00ader Elite, but with\u00adout Mills\u2019 ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal fool\u00adish\u00adness. With his unusu\u00adal\u00adly broad expe\u00adri\u00adence in busi\u00adness, jour\u00adnal\u00adism, Wall Street, the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan mil\u00adi\u00adtary, the Intel\u00adli\u00adgence com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty, and gov\u00adern\u00adment \u2015 but nev\u00ader&nbsp;in&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1032\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8221,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/8221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}