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You Can’t Separate Empire, the State, Financialization and Crony Capitalism: It’s One Indivisible System
You Can’t Separate Empire, the State, Financialization and Crony Capitalism: It’s One Indivisible System The great irony is what’s unsustainable melts into thin air no matter how many people want it to keep going. Disagreement is part of discourse, and pursuing differing views of the best way forward is the heart of democracy. Disagreement is abundant, […]
Democracy Has Departed The West
Democracy Has Departed The West Before the West spreads democracy abroad maybe it could get some for itself. The US is an oligarchy in which government is answerable to six powerful private interest groups. In Europe governments are answerable to the EU, Washington, and private bankers and not to their peoples. In the UK the […]
VIDEO: Chris Hedges on the Big Lie of Neoliberalism and the Very Real Threat of a President Trump
VIDEO: Chris Hedges on the Big Lie of Neoliberalism and the Very Real Threat of a President Trump Chris Hedges doesn’t spare Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or even Bernie Sanders in this wide-ranging take on the big swindle of neoliberalism and his warning for the future in the hands of a “rapacious oligarchic elite.” Hedges […]
Western Democracy Is An Endangered Species On Its Way To Extinction
Western Democracy Is An Endangered Species On Its Way To Extinction The British Labour Party no longer represents the working class. Under UK prime minister Tony Blair, the Labour Party became a vassal of the One Percent. The result has been a rebellion in the ranks and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, a principled Labourite […]
Assange and Democracy’s Future
Assange and Democracy’s Future Democracy rests on citizens getting real facts and applying rational analysis. The ability of governments, including the U.S. government, to suppress facts and thus manage perceptions represents the opposite, a power over the people that WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange threatened, says Norman Solomon. Three years after Ecuador’s government granted political asylum to Julian Assange in its […]
America’s Biggest Lie – Dictatorship Or Democracy?
America’s Biggest Lie – Dictatorship Or Democracy? The Deceit About Being A ‘Republic’ Versus A ‘Democracy’ One of my recent articles at several sites, “Jimmy Carter Is Correct That the U.S. Is No Longer a Democracy” generated many reader-comments (such as here) saying things like, “The US has always been a republic. There are no true democracies in the modern world.” This […]
The Suicide of the American Left
The Suicide of the American Left Regular readers of this blog know that I generally avoid partisan politics in the essays posted here. There are several reasons for that unpopular habit, but the most important of them is that we don’t actually have partisan politics in today’s America, except in a purely nominal sense. It’s […]
We are all Greece
We are all Greece The cast of heroes and villains in Greece’s ongoing battle to save its economy varies depending on who’s telling the story. One simplified narrative depicts the German people as rich and callous overlords inflicting hardship on the downtrodden Greeks. The austerity measures they insist upon are essentially meant to punish the […]
Would Somebody Please Bring Freedom & Democracy To America
Would Somebody Please Bring Freedom & Democracy To America Clearly, the language of freedom is no longer the common tongue spoken by the citizenry and their government. With the government having shifted into a language of force, “we the people” have been reduced to suspects in a surveillance state, criminals in a police state, and […]
Is Democracy Hitting theFossil Fuels too Hard?
Is Democracy Hitting the Fossil Fuels too Hard? Stick that in your democracy and smoke it? Over the past few weeks the notion of democracy has been getting its fair share of attention in the media, and quite rightfully so; Greece had a referendum on whether or not it was going to accept new terms […]
The Death of Democracy in a Byzantine Labyrinth
The Death of Democracy in a Byzantine Labyrinth The project of European Union, and its single currency experiment, were politically an attempt to unite fractious nations in order to put an end to a history of horribly destructive conflict. Economically, the goals were to scale up governance in Europe, to transition from the national to […]
Concentrated Wealth + Widespread Stupidity = End Of Democracy
Concentrated Wealth + Widespread Stupidity = End Of Democracy Today’s America is not a democracy: “Dark Money Groups Are Funded By Dark Money Groups That Fund Dark Money Groups That Fund…” That terrific investigative news report by Paul Blumenthal at Huffington Post, on 9 November 2013,penetrated beyond what the U.S. oligarchy — or more traditionally called aristocracy — […]
Agency to Enslave Greeks Is Established
Agency to Enslave Greeks Is Established Late on Thursday, July 16th, German Economic News headlined “Greece: Debt Restructuring Through the Back Door,” and reported that, “The majority of Greece’s national debt is to be moved in the next three years gradually to the euro bailout fund ESM [European Stability Mechanism], so that the IMF will continue to remain as […]
