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What Else You Can Do
What Else You Can Do You’ve been radically misled to believe that the only thing, or the most important thing, or one of the super important things you can do is vote. Voting in a functioning democracy would be a fairly important thing to do, but wouldn’t somehow eliminate the thousands of important things that […]
How do we keep getting dragged into this electoral spectator sport?
How do we keep getting dragged into this electoral spectator sport? Ah, elections… Little more than a bare-knuckle boxing match. If you were to suddenly catch a glimpse of such a fight, you would see real blood, real punches, swollen lips, black eyes, and a final knockout. It looks like a real spontaneous fight. But […]
U.S. Elections Are Neither Free Nor Fair. States Need to Open Their Doors to More Observers.
U.S. Elections Are Neither Free Nor Fair. States Need to Open Their Doors to More Observers. Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitor a polling place in Washington, D.C., during the presidential election on Nov. 8, 2016. Photo: Yuri Gripas/AFP/Getty Images VOTER SUPPRESSION. DISENFRANCHISEMENT. Gerrymandering. Can Tuesday’s midterms in the United […]
Why Bad Economics Makes Such Good Politics
Why Bad Economics Makes Such Good Politics As the election nears, politicians will more and more frantically point out what wonderful favors they’ve done for the voters — or what favors they will do for the voters, if elected. Of course, they never mean all the voters. They mean groups or individuals within the voting […]
Nobody to Vote For
Nobody to Vote For When I say there is nobody to vote for, I don’t just mean the familiar complaint that the candidates may be different shades of evil but are all too evil to support, that the earth’s climate does not recover one iota because some even worse policy has been averted, that sadistic […]
Will Elections ever be Valid Any More?
Will Elections ever be Valid Any More? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You have stated that you believe Kennedy was assassinated by the US Intelligence community. Given all this stuff with Comey, FBI, CIA, and NSA all conspiring against Trump, do you think that the real risk of interfering with our elections is not the Russians but closer […]
Elections and the Illusion of Political Control
Elections and the Illusion of Political Control Photo Source Paul Sableman | CC BY 2.0 As if on special at Metaphors-R-Us, and just in time for the primary elections, CNN published an article on fake buttons that are provided to give people the illusion of control. It seems psychologists determined that fake buttons at crosswalks, […]
Are We Making Elections Less Secure Just to Save Time?
ARE WE MAKING ELECTIONS LESS SECURE JUST TO SAVE TIME? SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENS on election night. With polls closing, American supporters of both parties briefly, intensely align as one: We all want to know who’s going to win, and we don’t want to wait one more minute. The ravenous national appetite for an immediate victor, […]
The Whole System Is Rigged
The Whole System Is Rigged From elections to media to the markets, it’s all controlled As the dog days of summer wind down, it’s hard not to notice how the climate is suffering brutally right now across many areas of the globe. Crop failures have hit hard across Europe. Australia is under an intense drought. […]
How to interfere in a foreign election
How to interfere in a foreign election FOR ONE OF THE world’s major powers to interfere systematically in the presidential politics of another country is an act of brazen aggression. Yet it happened. Sitting in a distant capital, political leaders set out to assure that their favored candidate won an election against rivals who scared […]
Technocrats Rule: Democracy Is OK as Long as the People Rubberstamp Our Leadership
Technocrats Rule: Democracy Is OK as Long as the People Rubberstamp Our Leadership Technocrats rule the world, East and West alike. We are in a very peculiar ideological and political place in which Democracy (oh sainted Democracy) is a very good thing, unless the voters reject the technocrat class’s leadership. Then the velvet gloves come […]
France’s fake news law will be used to silence critics, win elections
France’s fake news law will be used to silence critics, win elections New laws targeting so called ‘fake news’ will actually be used to target and take down real news outlets in the long run so the powers-that-be will be able to remain in control as usual (INTELLIHUB) — There is really only one reason […]
Italian Elections: Destroying Democracy to Protect the Globalist Elite
Italian Elections: Destroying Democracy to Protect the Globalist Elite Recent events in Italy show that the country is getting the same type of treatment meted out to other countries whose election results do not agree with the neoliberal globalist elite and so must be stymied. The attitude shown by this transnational elite towards the winning forces […]
US Meddling in Foreign Elections: A CIA Tradition Since 1948
US Meddling in Foreign Elections: A CIA Tradition Since 1948 In a shocking display of relative independence from the post-Operation Mockingbird control of the media by the Central Intelligence Agency, a recent article in The New York Times broke with current conventional pack journalism and covered the long history of CIA meddling in foreign elections. A February 17, […]
America’s Democracy Hypocrisy
America’s Democracy Hypocrisy In late February, Venezuela’s government began accepting presidential candidate registrations and announced a snap legislative election for April. The country’s opposition denounces the process as a sham and Maduro as a dictator, both of which may be true. Oddly, a third voice — the US government — also weighed in. Per US […]
