Tag: democracy
Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’ is a vile circus for new Cold...
The biggest enemy of the basic democratic rights is the U.S. government—and yet we have this Biden conference declaring support for democracy.
Against plutocrats, platitudes — about democracy — will always be pitiful
The Biden administration’s democracy initiative is missing the all-important inequality connection.
Despite Trump abuses, 208 House Republicans vote against bill to ensure...
"It's time for lawmakers of both parties in the Senate to take up the mantle and swiftly pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act. The integrity of our country's most powerful office is at stake."
In first, US labeled ‘backsliding’ democracy as global authoritarianism grows
A new report calls the rejection of the 2020 election results by many in the Republican Party as an “historic turning point” for the United States.
Whose money is it?
As a democracy, as active participants in a system of self-government, aren’t WE the government?
The last progressive
Thus far, however, Biden’s demonstrated negligible aptitude for restoring even an approximation of ordinariness to American life.
Do any Republicans still support democracy?
Republicans should heed Churchill’s warning about appeasing authoritarians: “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, it will eat him last.”
America is a poor advertisement for democracy
Congressional paralysis, voter suppression, and widespread political polarization all suggest that American democracy is far from exemplary.
Welcome to the American century
We are truly living out the end of the American Century in the world it created.
Media attacked, journalists murdered: Democracy eroded
Social justice and freedom in all its forms, including media freedom, are at the core of the fight.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.