Democracy

How America’s ‘News’-Media Sell Propaganda Instead of Journalism

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) This article is about how the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment’s freedoms of speech and of the press are treated by today’s American press — treated with hostility — by them: ignored when possible, and suppressed when not. What’s more important to them is to do the propaganda, and this means […]

A Strong Third Political Party is on its Way

History tells us that a Third Party has never been successful. The American Federal system, majority rule, Electoral College, and voter perception that a third alternative serves as a spoiler, hinder the eagerness for a Third Party. The possibility of dividing the Electoral College vote so that no candidate gains the required 270 majority deters […]

Australia’s Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill

Could we face collective decisions so fundamental that discourse itself buckles under conceptual strain? If so, maybe this is such a time and it would accordingly be wise to map it in the most reliable tradition, which prioritises agreed facts and valid inference from them. This also befits a need to be incisive, given the […]

Paper of Record tells Tall Tale of Canada Pushing Democracy 

 Globe and Mail omissions enable its wild foreign policy claims. By failing to mention crucial history Canada’s ‘paper of record’ can claim the military spreads the “democratic gospel” in Africa. A recent front page Globe story headlined “Honduran women risk death and imprisonment as they try to access reproductive care” discussed the plight of women […]

The Public Still Isn’t Being Told the Full, Horrifying Truth About the Net Zero Revolution

Little known to the voting public, Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems have all signed up to legally binding five-year plans which stipulate a detailed programme to re-engineer society to cut emissions by a specific amount.
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Turkey’s European integration: the reality of pragmatism or the dream of romanticism?

Turkey’s EU admission process exemplified a 60-year-old moving process with an unknown result. The Turkish authorities, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, have publicly denounced Brussels’ identical attitude toward such discriminatory treatment of Turkish society and state, humiliatingly putting Turkey in the status of a hopeless candidate for more than half a century. Turkey has […]

Gallup Polls Suggest Nigerans Support Coup; Americans Would Support One

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On August 8th, the Gallup Organization distributed via email to its “Front Page” subscribers, the results from their pollings in the 13 nations of West Africa (these being polls taken prior to the coup in Niger), which showed that in Niger, 84% said they had “Confidence in Military,” and 71% […]