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As Long As Mass Media Propaganda Exists, Democracy Is A Sham
As Long As Mass Media Propaganda Exists, Democracy Is A Sham A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has reportedly found that a majority of Americans believe the completely discredited narrative that the Russian government paid Taliban-linked fighters to kill the occupying forces of the US and its allies in Afghanistan. “A majority of Americans believe that Russia paid […]
Notes From Underground #4: Emergency Democracy
Notes From Underground #4: Emergency Democracy It’s late in 1940, six months since the fall of France. Still a year to go before America joins the war. Meanwhile, Britain soldiers on alone – or so it likes to tell itself, the vastness of Empire folded conveniently into the background. Through the crackling of the wireless, […]
We’re Asking One Question In Assange’s Case: Should Journalists Be Punished For Exposing War Crimes?
We’re Asking One Question In Assange’s Case: Should Journalists Be Punished For Exposing War Crimes? This is a speech I gave yesterday at a demonstration for Assange with the Socialist Equality Party Australia. Tomorrow in the UK a judge will start the process of answering a very important question. It’s a question that many of us knew was the […]
Poetic Justice Coming For The 1%
Poetic Justice Coming For The 1% To understand just how grim the coming decade is likely to be for the world’s super-rich, let’s start with three premises: 1) Capitalist democracy — defined as free individuals managing their own property and periodically electing new leaders — is the only system of social organization that’s consistent with […]
Dissatisfaction with democracy reaches all-time high
Dissatisfaction with democracy reaches all-time high A new report by the recently established Centre for the Future of Democracy at the University of Cambridge has found that dissatisfaction with democracy has reached an all-time global high. Westminster-style democracies (the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US) typically fare particularly badly in terms of democratic faith, with the […]
40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition is Threatening Democracy
40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition is Threatening Democracy We must take action and guard what little privacy remains before it’s too late. (TMU) — On Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on U.S. government use of facial recognition technology. The letter was drafted by the digital privacy […]
The Primary Mechanism Of Your Oppression Is Not Hidden At All
The Primary Mechanism Of Your Oppression Is Not Hidden At All I write a lot about government secrecy and the importance of whistleblowers, leakers and leak publishers, and for good reason: governments which can hide their wicked deeds from public accountability will do so whenever possible. It’s impossible for the public to use democracy for ensuring […]
Democracy Is the Ideal Distraction
Democracy Is the Ideal Distraction In the days of yore, there were kings. Everybody could agree to hate the king because he was rich and well-fed, when most of his minions were not. Then, a more effective system was invented: democracy. Its originators had in mind a system whereby the populace could choose their leader […]
Boris Johnson’s destruction of democracy is making it easier for the hard right to ruin our planet
Boris Johnson’s destruction of democracy is making it easier for the hard right to ruin our planet The vision that Boris and his clique represent is plain (for some of us) to see. They appear to be unabashed authoritarians, and their grand scheme consists of austerity for the poor, welfare for the wealthy and marginalisation […]
Breaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange
Breaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange The same media that has spent years dragging Assange’s name through the mud is now engaging in a blackout on his treatment. If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you’re going to be disappointed. The role of journalism […]
How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings
How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our government-funded media outlet, has published an article titled “Australian expat living in Hong Kong throws off business suit to join protest movement“. The entire story is in the headline: some random guy, who ABC keeps anonymous but for the name […]
Demonocracy: The Great Human Scourge!
Demonocracy: The Great Human Scourge! Review: Christophe Buffin de Chosal, The End of Democracy, Translated by Ryan P. Plummer. Printed in the U.S.A.: Tumblar House, 2017. Introduction One cannot speak too highly of Christophe Buffin de Chosal’s The End of Democracy. In a fast paced, readable, yet scholarly fashion, Professor Buffin de Chosal* demolishes the ideological justification in which […]
Is Protest Good for Democracy? And Does It Work?
Is Protest Good for Democracy? And Does It Work? When certain conditions are present, huge change is possible. So get out there. Do protests constitute a danger to the legitimacy and stability of the political system, or do they foster greater democratic responsiveness? And, most importantly, do protests really create long-term political change? To answer […]
Socialism Rises Due To The Great American Economic Growth Myth
Socialism Rises Due To The Great American Economic Growth Myth There is little denying the rise of “socialistic” ideas in the U.S. today. You can try and cover the stench by calling it “social democracy” but in the end, it’s still socialism. Since 1775, millions of Americans have given their lives in defense of the American “idea.” The tyranny and oppression […]
