Tag: democracy
‘No kings on Presidents Day’ rallies challenge Trump-Musk assault on democracy
Protests in all 50 states send a resounding message against authoritarianism and corporate rule.
How to bump, lump, crumple, and eventually dump Donald Trump
Better we concentrate on growing the grit and smarts to fight back from the hedgerows to the dark net.
Jayapal’s bill to overturn Citizens United targets Musk’s ‘shadow presidency’
As billionaires like Elon Musk reshape American democracy, a new amendment seeks to reverse the Supreme Court ruling that allowed corporate money to dominate politics.
Shadow government: How Trump’s executive order hands Musk control of the...
An investigation into how a new executive order has enabled an unelected billionaire to oversee federal hiring, dismantle public agencies, and consolidate unchecked power over American democracy.
Settler colonialism: ‘It Ends With Us’ in Palestine and Israel
This article refers to both these incidents to analyze the current Palestine-Israel catastrophe.
UK’s anti-protest laws: A threat to democracy and a dangerous global...
How the UK’s anti-protest laws threaten democratic values and global credibility.
Can nonviolent struggle defeat a dictator? This database emphatically says yes
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
Syria’s new fundamentalist government: Women ‘biologically’ unsuited to politics, universities to...
The comments provoked a firestorm of protest among Syrian women and, well, non-fundamentalists.
Once upon a time, a nation of laws
If only, as a nation, we could look beyond the tumultuous context of the current moment and imagine how to make our way to a safer, more sustainable future.
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NOAA: 2025 Atlantic hurricane season predicted to be above normal with 13 to 19...
NOAA predicts a 60 percent chance of it being “above normal,” a 30 percent chance of it being near normal and a 10 percent chance that it will be below normal.
No shelter left as Israeli forces displace 180,000 Palestinians in ten days
A renewed wave of Israeli bombings and ground offensives has displaced 180,000 people in 10 days, with schools, homes, and designated “safe zones” turned into mass graves—many funded by U.S. weapons and shielded by diplomatic silence.
Images of Gaza’s starving babies have gone round the world. This is what malnutrition...
Between April 2025 and March 2026, there will be 71,000 cases of acute malnutrition among children under five, including 14,100 severe cases.
The forgotten 10 billion lives: A tale of suffering, survival, and the fight to...
Photographs, storytelling, poetry, and well-documented research unveil the immense suffering, ecological devastation, worker exploitation, and economic injustice caused by the animal agricultural industry.
Beyond revoking the New Deal, MAGA Trumpism reignites the Civil War, thus must defame...
This herd of minority deplorables defines a gang of spoiled brats, outraged whenever told NO! What extremist doesn’t want power they think will serve selfish, private, undemocratic needs, values and interests?