Tag Archives: Democracy

The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Tyranny or Revolution

Posted on November 14, 2018 by

By Chris Hedges Source: TruthDig At the age of 10 I was sent as a scholarship student to a boarding school for the uber-rich in Massachusetts. I lived among the wealthiest Americans for the next eight years. I listened to … Continue reading →

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What We Threw Away

Posted on October 5, 2018 by

By Patrick Armstrong Source: Strategic Culture Foundation Forty years ago I was quite impressed by the books of Jean François Revel in which he argued that The West was pretty much doomed because it was messy and indecisive. On the other hand, … Continue reading →

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American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths

Posted on September 7, 2018 by

By Lee Camp Source: TruthDig Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right? No society should function with this level of inequality (with the possible exception of one of those prison planets in a “Star Wars” movie). Sixty-three … Continue reading →

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Western Elites Decrying ‘Populism’ Betrays Fear of Democracy

Posted on July 30, 2018 by

By Finian Cunningham Source: Strategic Culture Foundation A new dreaded word has entered into official Western media speak: “Populism”. Political parties and governments which are deemed to be illegitimate are invariably labeled with the prefix “populist”. There is a vague … Continue reading →

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Dismantling A Society: How Empires Feed Off the Republic

Posted on July 9, 2018 by

By RS Anthion Source: CounterPunch “It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America.” -Nikki Haley (1) Nikki Haley released a ferocious rebuke of a UN report detailing poverty in the United States. As if she could … Continue reading →

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Neo-Liberalism and the Retreat of Democracy

Posted on July 2, 2018 by

By David Schultz Source: CounterPunch Democracy across the world is under siege. This according to the latest Freedom House report documenting that for 2017, “democracy faced its most serous crisis in decades” as seventy-one countries experienced declines in freedom or … Continue reading →

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The World Will Not Mourn the Decline of U.S. Hegemony

Posted on May 21, 2018 by

By Paul Street Source: Consortium News There are good reasons to bemoan the presence of the childish, racist, sexist and ecocidal, right-wing plutocrat Donald Trump in the White House. One complaint about Trump that should be held at arm’s-length by … Continue reading →

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Why America’s Major News-Media Must Change Their Thinking

Posted on April 30, 2018 by

By Eric Zuesse Source: Strategic Culture Foundation America’s ‘news’-media possess the mentality that characterizes a dictatorship, not a democracy. This will be documented in the linked-to empirical data which will be subsequently discussed. But, first, here is what will be documented … Continue reading →

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