FROM 02/23/2018 | Adirondack Daily Enterprise

BY ROBERT L. ARNOLD

Our founding fathers signed a Declaration of Independence that supposedly shed the yoke of the monarchy and substituted a participative democracy with three interactive branches of management. This management framework rests on a constitution and by-laws designed to ensure that participative governance for all citizens would be sustained. It should not be a surprise that […]

FROM 02/22/2018 | The Washington Post

BY Fareed Zakaria

A few weeks ago, the Economist Intelligence Unit published the 10th edition of its Democracy Index, a comprehensive ranking of nations that looks at 60 measures in five categories, ranging from electoral process to civil liberties. For the second consecutive year, the United States failed to make the top bracket of “full democracy” and was grouped in […]

FROM 02/22/2018 | Ahval News

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The Turkish government’s crackdown on critics of the government may be a harbinger of things to come in currently democratic nations as authoritarianism is on the rise across the world, three political psychologists wrote in USA today. David Redlawsk, Masi Noor and Stephen Reicher visited Istanbul to attend the trial of one of more than […]

FROM 02/21/2018 | Portside

BY Rebecca Stoner

TAMPA, FLA.—In a fluorescent lit classroom with handmade posters covering one wall, approximately 15 high school students are chanting the words of black revolutionary Assata Shakur: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and we must support each other. We have nothing […]

FROM 02/16/2018 | The Dawn News

BY Denise Assis

The leader of the MST and the People’s Brazil Front, Joao Pedro Stédile, believes that the solution for the crisis that Brazil is currently facing (which is even more serious than the ones that took place in the 1930s, 1960s and 1980s) lies in a broad alliance between the social organizations of the country. “United, […]

FROM 02/11/2018 | Truthout

BY Mark Karlin

An anti-fascist group known as Philly Rebellion marked the arrest of more than 200 protesters one year ago at the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, DC, by taking and holding a major intersection in downtown Philadelphia on January 20, 2018. (Photo: Cory Clark / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Mark Bray does not shrink from […]

FROM 02/10/2018 | KQED

BY PBS Video

Shane Burley discusses his new book “Fascism Today: What It Is and How We End It.”

FROM 01/09/2018 | Haaretz

BY David Rothkopf

Block me. Don’t let me enter Israel. I am a Jew. Three dozen of my relatives died in the Holocaust. My father, before he fled the Nazis, was an active member of Zionist youth organizations. By my understanding of what used to be Israel’s “right of return”, I was under the impression that I had […]

FROM 01/09/2018 | Truthout

BY Henry A. Giroux

What are the longer-term trends that gave rise to the presidency of Donald Trump? What will be the national and global impacts? And what do we need to do to resist? Henry A. Giroux tackles these questions in The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism. “This courageous and timely book is the first […]

FROM 01/08/18 | Chicago Tribune

BY Slawomir Sierakowski

Western observers tend to conflate Europe’s two leading proponents of right-wing populism: Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, and the chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Kaczynski has long promised the advent of “Budapest in Warsaw,” an allusion to Orban’s model of “illiberal democracy” that the Hungarian leader unapologetically touted in a […]

FROM 01/05/2018 | Politico Magazine

BY KEVIN BAKER

On February 26, 1928, a headline in the New York Times announced, “MARCH OF THE MACHINE MAKES IDLE HANDS,” with the subhead:“Prevalence of Unemployment With Greatly Increased Industrial Output Points to the Influence of Labor-Saving Devices as an Underlying Cause.” What these alarming words referred to was the abundance of goods being produced in the roaring plants, mills and farm […]