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Obama. Barack Hussein Obama, president of the United States of America, was elected November 4,2008. Citing an obscure law that said only citizens who are born in the U.S.A. are eligible to run for president, Obama's opponents said he was not eligible to run because he was born in Indonesia, not the U.S.A. (by some accounts he was born in Kenya). A controversy arose regarding Obama's birth certificate, which claimed that he was born in Hawaii, many people said the birth certificate was false.

Above: 'Where's The Birth certificate?' by Jerome R. Corsi, 2011. Subtitled: 'The case that Barack Obama is not eligible to be president'. 

Occupy Wall Street. A protest movement started in New York, to protest against the greed of banks and big corporations.

Above: Occupy Nation, By Todd Gitlin, copyright 2012.

Above: The Occupy Handbook, edited by Janet Byrne.

Oil. The sale of oil as an industrial commodity around the world has had a profound influence on politics.

Above: The Prize by Daniel Yergin, subtitled: 'The Epic Quest For Oil, Money, and Power', Copyright 1991. The book describes how the oil industry has influenced capitalist politics, around the world.

Oligarchs. The name 'oligarchs' was the name given to a gentrified class of wealthy Russians who arose in Russia in the 1990's. Because of poltical problems in Russia, the rules of Socialist economics were compromised, and elements of capitalism appeared. The oligarchs were Russians capitalists who tried to buy organizations that were ofrmerly owned by the Communists, and turn these organizations into profit-making capitalist companies.  

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