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How Democracies Turn Tyrannical

How Democracies Turn Tyrannical Both monarchs of the past and dictators more in the present have denied limits on their power to command and coerce those under their control. For most of the last three centuries, the ideas of liberty and democracy have been intertwined in the minds of both friends and foes of a […]

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Why Special Interests Try to Take Control of Governments

Why Special Interests Try to Take Control of Governments George Monbiot, popular Guardian columnist, beacon light of global environmentalism, is also the kind of progressive who insists on seeing the world as he wishes it were and not as it really is. Wearing these kind of blinders will not help us get a better environment […]

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Why Special Interests Sacrifice the Future for Short-Term Gain

Why Special Interests Sacrifice the Future for Short-Term Gain The special interests that dominate politics dominates to produce a form of economic warfare. The more some can manipulate the political machinery, the more they can feather their own nests. They even use similar propaganda techniques. In wartime, we are always defined as the good guys, […]

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True Free Trade vs. ‘Free Trade Deals’: The Misappropriation of Freedom

TRUE FREE TRADE VS. ‘FREE TRADE DEALS’: THE MISAPPROPRIATION OF FREEDOM One of the most frustrating aspect of those trade negotiations that are sold as ‘Free Trade Deals’ is that they are not truly ‘Free Trade’ and, instead, they are just selective liberalisations that work to enrich particular interests, that increase the disparities between those […]

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America’s Dying Democracy

America’s Dying Democracy Democracy, as a noble principle of self-governance, is fading away in big ways and small, with special interests seizing control of both media and politicians and with the people increasingly manipulated and misinformed. In this impassioned appeal, Bill Moyers calls it “the fight of our lives.” In the fall of 2001, in […]

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