We'll begin with Rossi's introductory quote, because BuzzFlash readers will get the picture immediately: "This book may break your heart, because this book is about a beautiful idea that has gone tragically wrong, or so it certainly appears at the moment. It's about the government of the United States of America, and what the hell has happened to it. This is about how thugs took over the steering wheel of our country -- but they didn't yank it by force, they won it with money. This is a book about how our government has been corroded inside and out."

When we think about what we have learned as we mark our seventh anniversary of what has now become the BuzzFlash Internet News Network, we've come to take the long view. A large enough segment of individuals and corporations have become outrageously wealthy and solely interested in preserving their financial power through political means. The electoral and legislative system has become corrupted by money. War and death are just collateral damage in the rush for a greedy, gluttonous wealth -- and feeling that as the sole remaining superpower, America has the right to plunder the world.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is made up of a minority of informed Americans, a sizeable comfortable class that is still riding the crest of Post World War II American jingoism, and the vast swath of the religiously deluded -- and, of course, there are the neglected, marginalized poor.

In "What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America," Melissa Rossi does us a great service by connecting the dots of the powers behind the throne of America. Her book is eminently engaging, accessible and readable. It must have taken a strong stomach to weave together this cast of nefarious knaves and fools without upchucking at least a few times.

If BuzzFlash were to write a book (and we're thinking about it), it would read something like this one. It is generously insightful and fact-based without being ponderous.

It will inform you and stoke your coals of indignation at what has happened to our Constitutional democracy all over again.