There’s nothing new about this, which is why I know it’s there before having seen the new budget proposal. The United States funds most of the world’s most oppressive militaries, sells them weapons, and trains ...
In Durham, North Carolina, a fight for an elementary school became a catalyst for positive change. As soon as Anna Grant’s busy workday at Forest View Elementary School in Durham, North Carolina, ended, she would ...
Across the spectrum, corporate media has endorsed last year’s rightwing takeover of Bolivia, refusing to label it as a coup. Coverage of Sunday’s historical elections hasn’t been much better. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Bolivia’s ...
The U.S. presidential election has so far involved and will undoubtedly continue to involve a clash over voting strategy for the left. A significant array of left commentators, for example, Cornel West, AOC, Angela Davis, ...
“He is working to dismantle a fundamental institution of our democracy. He needs to resign or be removed, now.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) On the heels of a “Friday Night Massacre” at the U.S. ...
The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage beyond the rich who possessed capital. Only mass ...
We should not fool ourselves: It could happen here. (Common Dreams) On Sept. 11, 1973, I was living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. That morning, one of my roommates, a Chilean ...
Capitalism, as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows, relentlessly worsens wealth and income inequalities. That inherent tendency is only occasionally stopped or reversed when masses of people rise up against it. That happened, for example, ...
The COVID-19 global pandemic has prompted a major question about leadership in a time of crisis: how to balance the importance of public health with the respecting of individual liberty? The virus respects no borders. ...
“This is about making sure that we’re able to conduct our democracy while we’re dealing with a pandemic.” COVID-19 has already disrupted several Democratic primary elections, forcing some states to postpone the contests until May. ...
“Palantir is engaged in tracking of people and populations the Trump administration despises and when you put Palantir and Facebook together, you’ve got a data operation the Nazis would have adored.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...
“The good news, as I more or less alluded to, is that there are a number of presidential candidates that have released very strong democracy reform platforms.” Citizen Truth spoke with Adam Eichen of Equal ...
“Hungary’s status declined from Free to Partly Free due to sustained attacks on the country’s democratic institutions by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party.” President Trump welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the White ...
Unless the incumbent Turkish political party AKP overturns the recent election results, the opposition is now in command of cities that make up 65% of Turkey’s GDP. Turkey’s local elections on March 31, 2019, resulted ...
Adam Eichen of Equal Citizens speaks with Citizen Truth about their campaign to make New Hampshire the second state in the United States to pass ranked choice voting. The United States democracy, or republic if ...
Politicians are merely the wealthy elite’s fall guys – convenient targets thrust out front as cannon fodder for any revolutions while our governments’ manipulators lurk in the shadows hoping for the best. The fact that ...
Despite the propaganda, the media hype, the Hollywood movies and the endless talk about American democracy, the U.S. is not actually a democracy. It is not really a republic either, it’s a plutocracy. Do you ...
Spurts of post-election violence in Zimbabwe were witnessed early this week moments after Zimbabweans voted in the first election since Mugabe was ousted in a bloodless coup. Mnangagwa has been declared winner while the opposition ...
Current judicial reform in Poland is sparking protests and causing an uproar throughout Poland. It has caused judges to say they have lost faith in the judicial system, with many saying the judicial changes are ...
Mauritius is not only a luxurious holiday destination but also a place with a rich and diverse flora and fauna unique only to the island. This includes the dodo, an extinct flightless bird, which was ...
The Zimbabwe elections of 2018 are generating buzz within the political circles of Africa as excitement, anxiety and uncertainty elicit mixed opinion across Zimbabwe. The elections slated for July 30 will be the first without ...
A new movement launched two weeks ago that encourages voter turnout at national elections by asking companies across the U.S. to give employees Election Day off, and dozens of companies are already signing on. Vote.org launched ...
The launch of a new community radio program is a significant step towards more open Myanmar press freedom, but the arrest of two Reuters journalists is a step back. Despite restrictive press access to Myanmar’s ...
LISTEN UP AND RESIST FOR AMERICA’S KIDS! Check out this podcast! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance Check out today’s Resistance podcast! The kids are alright, and they have had enough. Democrat Conor Lamb beat Republican Rick Saccone. ...
Check out this Resistance podcast! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance On this Resistance Podcast. We discuss the Republican party and its shortcomings. We explore the rise of populist autocrats with fascistic tendencies and a patent disdain for ...
More calm than normal followed a string of political resignations and surprising court rulings that were spread throughout Africa. Is democracy in Africa settling in? When it comes to leadership and democracy, Africa is not ...
On this episode of your Resistance podcast: if you are concerned about climate change, you will want to hear the news out of New York City. We shine a light on the Sleeping Giants’ twitter ...
CHECK OUT THIS RESISTANCE PODCAST! GOP Assaults America Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance The Senate wants to screw the country till every American, except for the rich, cries “ME TOO”! This time they are doing it with this ...
CHECK OUT FRIDAY’S RESISTANCE PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance EP 76. A Republican and a Democratic ex president take the stage to condemn an orangutan (stop me if you’ve heard this one). When George W. Bush ...
CAN WE SAVE OUR UNION BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE? THIS IS YOUR RESISTANCE PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance Ep. 72 We are suffering under the tyranny of the minority because our democracy is rigged. The Supreme ...
BE SURE TO CATCH TUESDAY’S EPISODE OF YOUR RESISTANCE PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance Ep. 69 Graham Cassidy may be dead! Maybe. Possibly. Keep calling. Something good happened in Congress on Monday, with the passage of ...
YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS EPISODE OF YOUR RESISTANCE PODCAST! Ep. 68 Is America a failing Democracy? In this episode we explore the boundless corruption in our current Republican government, talk about Russian media, ...
Reposted from Foreign Policy Journal. Article by Garikai Chengu, January 12, 2013 Contrary to popular belief, Libya, which western media described as “Gaddafi’s military dictatorship”, was in actual fact one of the world’s most democratic States. ...
After the Vietnam War and the 1960’s elite’s were concerned about what they called “The Crisis of Democracy”. This sentiment was on both sides of the political spectrum but this particular phrase refers to the ...
Who Really Rules? A study released in 2014 studied 20 years worth of data to answer the questions, “Who governs? Who really rules? To what extent is the broad body of U.S. citizens sovereign, semi-sovereign, ...
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