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Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship
Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship The first time when it became clear to me that I live in a dictatorship was in 2014 when reading, prior to its publication, the landmark (and still the only) scientific empirical study to address the question as to whether or not the United States federal Government is, authentically, a democracy […]
Why America’s Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police in a Dictatorship
Why America’s Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police in a Dictatorship Secret police are characteristic of dictatorships, or so goes the conventional thinking on the subject. Police in democracies operate for the most part transparently and within a set of rules and guidelines that limits their ability to gratuitously punish citizens who have done nothing […]
Venezuela: Dictatorship, Collapse And Consequence
Venezuela: Dictatorship, Collapse And Consequence If you want to outline the numerous failures of ideological and economic socialism, just name any socialist nation and you are sure to uncover an endless supply of examples. In fact, many countries where socialism is not total but making considerable inroads often suffer from severe decline — the U.S. […]
A World Hangs in the Balance
A WORLD HANGS IN THE BALANCE The overwhelming number of well-funded groups “fighting for change” in this world are misdirected. Intentionally so. These groups are designed to go off track, eliminate freedom, and produce answers that bring about more top-down control. I can’t emphasize that strongly enough: —The use of dupes and pawns, organized into […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Clears Path to Dictatorship
Turkey’s Erdogan Clears Path to Dictatorship The ouster of Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu marks another troubling milestone in President Erdogan’s consolidation of dictatorial power, a development that Alon Ben-Meir sees as further enflaming the region. The forced resignation of Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu suggests only one thing — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is […]
The American Dictatorship
The American Dictatorship Even for the post of U.S. President, the preferences of the American people have only a marginal, if any, impact upon the selection of the person to occupy that post. In Colorado’s Republican race to win delegates to the Republican National Convention for selecting the Republican Presidential nominee, there was no primary, […]
Democracy Is No Better Than a Monarchy… or a Dictatorship
Democracy Is No Better Than a Monarchy… or a Dictatorship “Flaming Lunatic” MUMBAI, India – The Dow managed a small bounce late last week. The bounce came as crude oil gushed higher, back above $30 a barrel. What next? We wait to find out… We had dinner in London last night, before boarding a plane […]
Dictators, Democracy, and Almighty Oil in the MENA Region
Dictators, Democracy, and Almighty Oil in the MENA Region 95% of transport fuels in the world are derived from oil. This makes it hard to argue that renewable or other non-petroleum sources of fuel could cut into oil’s market share, at least in the near term. Transportation, and thus petroleum, is essential to growing […]
Bread, circuses and inequality – a dishonest bargain
Bread, circuses and inequality – a dishonest bargain How does consumerism undermine democracy? Flickr/dcmaster, CC BY-NC 2.0 China leads the way the Chinese people surrender democratic citizenship for the promise of individual gain through private consumptionOver the decade of the 2000s I visited China several times. At some point on each trip a Chinese acquaintance would assure me, […]
Verging on Plutocracy? Getting Real About the Unelected Dictatorship
Verging on Plutocracy? Getting Real About the Unelected Dictatorship In politics as in medicine, excessively mild remedies are typically based on overly placid diagnoses. Look, for example, at the highly esteemed Columbia University historian Eric Foner’s recent letter of congratulations and advice to Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in The Nation. As I have argued […]
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 […]
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 […]
