Is It Democracy or Is It Oligarchy?
The word 'oligarch' is everywhere, with the title being maliciously applied to many or most of the very wealthy entrepreneurs who have fostered a new...
A Sunday Morning Cartoon For You
There’s no gas shortage for the Republicans.
How American Democracy Is Slip, Slip Sliding Away
The more I see of America the more I am becoming disgusted. I have been on this earth 78 years at the end of this month.
The United Kingdom Is Now A One Party State
I believe in democracy and most people in the UK believe in democracy. Admittedly there are those who only believe in democracy if it works.
Our Sunday Morning Cartoon
It’s true! It’s not just a dream. Joe Biden is now the president-elect and soon the awful Trump will be hitting the road.
Is Britain’s ‘Two Party State’ In For A Shock?
Britain, or rather, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a democracy. It is and has long been a liberal, secular democracy.
Let’s Kill Democracy to Save It
The elderly African-American woman, Dorothy Cooper, had been told she needed a photo ID to vote. She had a photo ID issued by the city.
Sinclair Broadcasting Enlists Journalists To Wage Trump’s War On ‘Fake News’
CNN’s Brian Stelter broke the news that Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner or operator of nearly 200 television stations in the U.S., would be forcing its news anchors to record a promo about “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country.” The script, which parrots…
How Trump Is Destroying Our Democracy
by Mark Bear It is being reported that the Chinese President Xi Jinping is "consolidating power." Lest you don't quite grasp what the consolidation of...
An Englishman Wants To Know: What Happens If Trump Doesn’t Become President?
Trump won the Presidency through a clearly flawed democratic system but win he did. Pointing to Clinton's winning of the popular vote is valid but...
Mainstream News Devotes 30 Seconds to Mass Arrests of ‘Democracy Spring’ Protesters
A huge protest movement known as Democracy Spring converged on Capitol Hill urging Congress to “end the corruption of big money in our politics” and “ensure free...
Democracy On Trial
Ukraine and Thailand are currently in turmoil demonstrating against their democratically elected governments. Other democracies - not necessarily 'new democracies' - are clearly wobbling towards...
Fragile Lives-Shattered Dreams
Now then. Where did you think you'd be at 18 or 25 or 35 or 45? Rolling in clover? You'd made it? You had financial...
Socialism: It’s Not What You Think
During the cold war Americans were taught that Communism and Socialism were one and the same. Perhaps this was because the official name of the Soviet Union was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Or, as Senator McCarthy was fond of saying, “Godless Communists.”