Tag: democracy
Calling All Rebels
There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power.
The Day America Outlawed Democracy
That's what has led to the current disaffection by both liberals and conservatives toward government. The American people can sense their rights slipping away, but they have yet to come to terms with what is actually going on. They have yet to realize that congressional gridlock is a convenient way of denying them their rights. They have also yet to recognize that the majority in the senate is allowing the minority to abuse of the filibuster procedure because both parties are in collusion. The Republican filibuster provides cover for the Democratic majority for failing to enact, or greatly watering down, legislation being demanded by the people, but neither party wants to enact.
Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web
The Fundraising Congress
What vets need from the prez
How to Get Our Democracy Back
The death penalty -- it's unworkable
To win Afghan war, isolate the...
Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web
Shades of Watergate in Louisiana, from Informed Comment, Whats this Pelican stuff? at TPM, America's fictional Democracy, from Chris Hedges, Big Surprise, another lie from the CIA, and Garrison Keillor says "let the uninsured die?" These and other stories in today's picks.
Jan 21, 2010 is the Official Date for the End of...
I don’t know if you guys are aware but yesterday’s Burrito Supreme Court Decision officially put a stamp on the end of democracy in the USA.