Eric Zuesse The least unreliable international rankings will here be linked-to for the various nations, on: per-person income, economic growth-rate, economic equality, happiness (perceived well-being), percentage in prison, murder rate, life-expectancy, perceived democracy of government, trust in the government, and governmental corruptness. The complete rankings will be shown only for happiness, because that might be […]
What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? —Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787, in Papers of Jefferson, ed. The government is goosestepping all over our freedoms. Case in point: America’s founders did not want a military […]
The UK's pandemic plan was clear that lockdowns were not to be used and ethics was to be central. Both of these were ditched in March 2020, says Dr David Seedhouse. Yet the Covid Inquiry has shown no interest in why.
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The modern state keeps messing up in its blunt, oppressive, one-size-fits-all solutions to the problems it imagines society faces because it is run by people with a narrow, bureaucratic vision of life, says Eugyppius.
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Eric Zuesse Why is it that America’s Government is far worse than the American people are? Americans aren’t even nearly as bad as its political Parties are, and this is because its political Parties are controlled by its billionaires, who are far worse than the American people are (worse than the “average” American — as […]
In the UK, as in other western ‘democracies’, important truths are effectively being silenced. As we have written on many occasions, antisemitism was used as a weapon to destroy the chances of Jeremy Corbyn becoming the British Prime Minister. Labour HQ staffers, and even Labour MPs, actively conspired against him.
Sweden, an EU member, handled Covid much better than Britain, outside the EU. But that doesn't mean Brexit was fruitless, argues Jon Dobinson, on the seventh anniversary of the historic vote.
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The “third neighbor” for Mongolia is a set of the large states that do not have a direct geographical boundary with Mongolia and are distinguished by a high level of socio-economic development and a democratic political system. The very concept of the “third neighbor” dates back to the events of the early 1990s, when US […]
Finally skewered by his enemies, Boris's real failure was to have squandered an 80-seat Conservative majority on Covid authoritarianism and green socialism, leaving even his supporters disenchanted.
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Whatever your views of Boris Johnson, ejecting from Parliament the man responsible for the Government's current majority is a victory for the Blob that stains our democracy.
