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Jeffrey Sachs is a well-known economist, not considered to be especially radical.  But earlier this week, he told it like it is about the Obama administration:

There has been no change, but rather more of the same: the Wall-Street-owned Democratic Party as we have come to know it.

Sachs concludes:

America needs a third-party movement to break the hammerlock of the financial elites. Until that happens, the political class and the media conglomerates will continue to spew lies, American militarism will continue to destabilize a growing swath of the world, and the country will continue its economic decline.

The whole article is worth reading.