Here is a creepy article from Harpers about "the Foundation" that makes my blood run cold. I have suspected that this kind of thing was going on somewhere for a long, long, time. I thought, however, that it was just subconscious individual motivation. The fact that these people are organized, is creepier than I could have imagined.
Good Alternet interview with the author of the article, who summed up what I've suspected about the white american male power structure this way:
The religious context is real. The Old Boys Network is about business. This is about more than business. This is about maintaining a certain kind of power, a certain view of how power should be distributed.