Democracy
Why Russians Don’t Want to Be Europeans
Pravda lied to us about the USSR, but it told the truth about the West.
– Contemporary Russian joke
India Unlocked: World’s “Biggest Lockdown” and Workers’ Long March
A view of deserted Ranganathan Street in Chennai on June 23, 2020. Hindu TimesAt times, states compete to showcase merchandise and relative productive capacities. Other times, many of these states sell misery to gain access to economic packages, charities and loans.
Countries Ranked on ‘Democracy’ in 2020
Eric Zuesse
NATO and its supporters and member-nations are hiding the fact that the predominant belief in many of these nations is that they’re dictatorships that merely pontificate ‘democracy’ to other nations.
Let Legislative Juries Decide Laws
It would be far better and far more democratic if laws are decided by legislative juries rather than by elected politicians.
The Man in the Invisible Mask
Politics, in its most elemental form, is primarily a game of numbers. Let’s say I am running for office, and I manage to garner more votes than my opponent. Result? I win. Similarly, if I manage to prevent my opponent from getting as many voters to the polls as I do, I also win. These conclusions are (or should be) self-evident.
Compare Martin Luther King’s dream to Antifa’s reality [Audio]
The riots and demonstrations by Antifa and Black Lives Matter are certainly a dominant theme in today’s news. The alleged aggression against people of color has, if one trusts the media, created an image of a galvanized and very angry people who have been woefully treated for far, far too long. Martin Luther King’s descendants often appear to use their star power to support and provoke the demonstrations to still further extents of fury and self-justification. However, the children and grandchildren are not echoing what their father wanted.
Moving Street Protests from Futility to Utility
The nationwide street protests following the gruesome murder of George Floyd, who was pinned to the ground and choked by a Minneapolis police officer and three accomplices, were spontaneous and diverse. No leaders, charismatic or otherwise put out the call for people to turn out in the face of militarized police legions. It was a wondrous display of civic self-respect.
Showing up is half a Democracy.