ADDED 05/10/2018
FROM | Youtube
BY Timothy Snyder
Sadopopulism: how America can be governed without policy and with pain. A guide to the logic of the Senate tax plan. Timothy Snyder is a historian at Yale University, specializing in eastern Europe, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust. His books have received widespread acclaim. His most recent book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” […]
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ADDED 05/09/2018
FROM 05/09/2018 | IPS Journal
BY Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist Francis Fukuyama became an overnight star when, in a 1989 magazine article, he claimed that liberal capitalist democracy had not just triumphed over communism, but marked the last ideological stage in human history. Speaking to Nikolaos Gavalakis, Fukuyama explains why he believes his broad theory still holds despite the ascendency of populist parties […]
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ADDED 05/07/2018
FROM 05/07/2018 | Truthdig
BY Chris Hedges
No leader, no matter how talented and visionary, effectively defies power without a disciplined organizational foundation. The civil rights movement was no more embodied in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. than the socialist movement was embodied in Eugene V. Debs. As the civil rights leader Ella Baker understood, the civil rights movement made King; King did not […]
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ADDED 05/07/2018
FROM 05/05/2018 | Jacobin Magazine
BY James Ledbetter
Marx is often remembered as a political economist or philosopher. But he made his mark as a journalist. Political economist. Philosopher. Journalist? Two hundred years after his birth, Marx is remembered as many things — but not often as a member of the Fourth Estate.James Ledbetter sees that as a mistake. The editor of a […]
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ADDED 05/06/2018
FROM 05/06/2018 | The Arab Weekly
BY Oussama Romdhani
Jihadist terrorism, in particular, can lower citizens’ expectations in Western democracies and make all kinds of concessions palatable. While hopeful voters headed to the ballot boxes in a number of Arab countries, politicians and pundits around the world, especially in the West, voiced concern that liberal democratic ideals are under assault. Alluding to the growing […]
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ADDED 05/04/2018
FROM 04/17/2018 | NACLA.org
BY J. Patrice McSherry
How Sebastián Piñera’s right-wing government is undermining democratic institutions Sebastián Piñera, a conservative billionaire, assumed the presidency of Chile for the second time on March 11 after an election in which abstention was the biggest winner. In only a few weeks he and right-wing allies engineered changes to key reforms enacted by previous socialist president […]
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ADDED 05/04/2018
FROM 03/05/2018 | Punjab Today
BY Kamjaat Singh
AT A TIME when Punjab is in the throes of a massive social upheaval and there is a complete disconnect between its farmers, farm labourers and those dependent on rural economy and others in towns and cities who are more cued into structures of political power, one would have thought that vast swathes of political […]
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ADDED 05/04/2018
FROM 05/01/2018 | BlackPast.org
BY Peter Carroll
Approximately 90 African Americans fought in Spain during the civil war that engulfed that nation between 1936 and 1939. The war became a proxy war for the European great powers as the Soviet Union supported the newly established Second Spanish Republic while Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy supported the anti-Republic conservatives led by General Francisco […]
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ADDED 05/03/2018
FROM 04/26/2018 | The Indypendent
BY Michael Hirsch
A charismatic and militant labor leader, five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate, class-war prisoner jailed by the ostensibly liberal Woodrow Wilson administration for opposing U.S entry into World War 1 and a fiery, moral force in a corrupted era — Eugene Victor Debs was among the greatest orators this nation ever produced, yet no recording of his […]
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ADDED 05/03/2018
FROM 05/03/2018 | Brasil Wire
BY Marcio Pochmann
During the lead up to the 2016 Coup, a series of alarmist articles in the Brazilian and international media warned of Brazil’s spiraling public debt. In January, 2016, for example, the Economist wrote, “public debt is worryingly large for a middle-income country and rising fast. Because of high interest rates, the cost of servicing it is a […]
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ADDED 05/02/2018
FROM 05/02/2018 | SPIN
BY Andy Cush
Yesterday was May Day, which meant that groups of left-leaning demonstrators took to the streets across the world in support of workers’ rights. In Seattle, according to local media, the May Day march attracted hundreds of people, including a faction of “Proud Boys,” the far-right men’s group that Gavin McInnes founded after he was triggered by a […]
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ADDED 05/01/2018
FROM 05/01/2018 | Ha'aretz
BY Bradley Burston
“Now, darkness and secrets are everywhere. Now there has to be an Us. Because now, there is a Them.” All eyes were on Israel’s military headquarters in Tel Aviv Monday night, as Benjamin Netanyahu literally unveiled his magician’s cabinets, the glittering CDs and snaggle-toothed binders holding what he said were 55,000 pages and 183 discs […]
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