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The Myth of European Democracy: A Shocking Revelation
The Myth of European Democracy: A Shocking Revelation It’s an open secret that the “Soros network” has an extensive sphere of influence in the European Parliament and in other European Union institutions. The list of Soros has been made public recently. The document lists 226 MEPs from all sides of political spectrum, including former President of the […]
Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That are False
Photo: Joe Raedle/AP Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That are False There is ample talk, particularly of late, about the threats posed by social media to democracy and political discourse. Yet one of the primary ways that democracy is degraded by platforms such and Facebook and Twitter […]
‘Ticking a box is no longer an option’: David van Reybrouck on elections, imagination and Brexit.
‘Ticking a box is no longer an option’: David van Reybrouck on elections, imagination and Brexit. David van Reybrouck lives in Brussels, is a pre-historic archaeologist, but works mostly as a literary writer, and as a non-fiction writer. He’s probably best known for his book ‘Congo: the epic history of a people’, for appearing in […]
Eight Catalonia Ministers Jailed, Madrid Seeks European Arrest Warrant for Catalan Leader
Eight Catalonia Ministers Jailed, Madrid Seeks European Arrest Warrant for Catalan Leader Spain, a country that supports a two-state solution in Palestine, detained eight Catalan ministers on trumped up charges of sedition. Prosecutors also seek an arrest warrant for ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont. We all knew it would come down to this: Sacked Catalonia […]
If Political Candidates Advocated Liberty
IF POLITICAL CANDIDATES ADVOCATED LIBERTY In modern democracies, political cycles never end. As soon as one election is over, those in government office or aspiring to such an office are already running for the next election. Having recently attended a public forum of state-level candidates looking to the 2018 election, I wondered what a real […]
How the US Aristocracy Deceive the US Public
How the US Aristocracy Deceive the US Public The progressive former Democratic US Senator Ted Kaufman wrote at Forbes, on 22 July 2014: Another year has passed with no one from a Wall Street bank going to jail for the criminal behavior everyone knows helped cause the financial crisis. Fines against Wall Street banks are reaching $100 […]
A System Problem for Democracy
A System Problem for Democracy In 1956 William H. Whyte published a book entitled The Organization Man. Basing his findings on a large number of interviews with CEOs of major American corporations, Whyte concluded that, within the context of modern organizational structure, American “rugged individualism” had given way to a “collectivist ethic.” Economic success and individual […]
Spain Demonstrates to the World Democracy Means Nothing
Spain Demonstrates to the World Democracy Means Nothing The Madrid government sacked Catalonia’s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday, hours after the region declared itself an independent nation in Spain’s gravest political crisis since the return of democracy four decades ago. The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who seems to think he has the power […]
NGO Publishes Names of 2,300+ RT Guests, Labels Them ‘Useful Idiots Who Undermine Western Democracy’
NGO Publishes Names of 2,300+ RT Guests, Labels Them ‘Useful Idiots Who Undermine Western Democracy’ An NGO called the European Values Think-Tank has published a report on RT featuring an extensive list of US and European public figures who have been accused of “undermining western democracy” just by appearing in RT shows. The report, claiming […]
Censorship in the Digital Age
Censorship in the Digital Age The grand experiment with western democracy, badly listing thanks to broadsides from profiteering oligarchs, may finally run ashore on the rocks of thought crime. In the uneven Steven Spielberg project Minority Report, starring excitable scientologist Tom Cruise, Cruise plays a futuristic policeman who investigates pre-crimes and stops them before they […]
Washington: The Bleeder of the ‘Free World’
Washington: The Bleeder of the ‘Free World’ Among the many self-flattering epithets it gives itself, the US has always claimed to be the “leader of the free world”. It’s a rather patronizing notion that America views itself as a selfless protector and benefactor of its European allies and others. This fairytale depiction of the world […]
How Big Corporations Game Our Democracy Into Their Plutocracy
How Big Corporations Game Our Democracy Into Their Plutocracy Photo by Todd Blaisdell | CC BY 2.0 A major chapter in American history – rarely taught in our schools – is how ever larger corporations have moved to game, neutralize and undermine the people’s continual efforts to protect our touted democratic society. It is a […]
Catalonia’s Referendum Unmasks Authoritarianism in Spain
Catalonia’s Referendum Unmasks Authoritarianism in Spain Monica Clua Losada, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley I have long worried about the rise of authoritarianism in the European Union. The Spanish government’s violent crackdown during the Catalonia referendum on Oct. 1 is the latest crisis to challenge EU institutions. Several member states are facing serious questions […]
America’s Hypocrisy on Democracy
America’s Hypocrisy on Democracy U.S. politicians often lecture other nations about their flawed governance as if American democracy is the gold standard, but anti-democratic measures like gerrymandering belie that self-image, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. An old fear about Islamist political parties entering government is that once in power, even if they had gained […]
Canada: Risks of a Parliamentary Democracy
Canada: Risks of a Parliamentary Democracy A Vulnerable System Parliamentary democracy is vulnerable to the extremely dangerous possibility that someone with very little voter support can rise to the top layer of government. All one apparently has to do is to be enough of a populist to get elected by ghetto dwellers. Economist and philosopher […]
