The United States is an oligarchy, not a democracy The country that presents itself as a universal model of democracy does not meet the basic standards of a system in which the majority makes decisions[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Democracy’
Why Kirsten Gillibrand Represents the Worst the Dems Have to Offer
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Bernie’s Hypocrisy
Sanders: I don’t consider myself a Democrat “No, I’m an Independent,” Sanders says amid DNC tour. THEHILL.COM Analysis | Bernie Sanders’s strange behavior The “Come Together” tour risks creating divisions, and Sanders isn’t helping with his comments about Jon Osso[...]
Should Biafra Rise Again?
For those clamoring for Biafra, a stupid and unattainable dream, this message is more pragmatic. I will recommend that those who feel marginalized should concentrate their wealth in their geographic region and see how helpful that is. I have travelled across the Nigerian landscape. Most of our agric[...]
Democracy Movement Forces Change of PM in South Korea
IN DEFEAT, SKOREAN PRESIDENT TO LET PARLIAMENT CHOOSE HER PMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea’s president said Tuesday she will allow parliament to choose her prime minister, a major political concession to growing anger as she scrambles to defuse an escalating influence-peddling sca[...]
BREXIT: The Reasons Direct Democracy Fails
Perilous Plebiscites: Brexit Vote Underscores Limits of Direct Democracy – SPIEGEL ONLINE[...]
How to Destroy A Political Party
How liberal activists may have have destroyed Britain’s Labor Party Jeremy Corbyn is being reelected Party Leader of Britain’s Labour despite nearly unanimous opposition of the elected Members of Parliament from his won party. The story is eerily similar to the current state of t[...]
BREAKING NEWS: ANC Loses Local Election in Nelson Mandela Bay
The African National Congress (ANC) suffered its worst electoral loss since the end of apartheid in 1994, when it lost Nelson Mandela Bay to the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in municipal elections. Nationally the ANC still has 56 percent of the votes around South Africa.[...]
CHINA vs the US: Is Corporate China the End of History?
In 1992, Francis Fukuyama published “The End of History.” His thesis was simple: social evolution has given us the free market to govern capital and liberal democracy to govern human ambition. Fukuyama’s idea was that competitive systems evolve by natural selection. As with Darwi[...]