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The 1 Percent’s Useful Idiots
by Chris Hedges, for Truthdig The parade of useful idiots, the bankrupt liberal class that long ago sold its...
The European Revolt Against the Neoliberal EU (1/2)
via The Real News, July 25, 2016 Catarina Principe, co-editor of Europe in Revolt, says a left movement against...
Thoughts on the Coup Attempt in Turkey
by Patrick Armstrong There is still a lot that is murky about it, the most murky being US involvement...
The Sultan of (Emergency) Swing
by Pepe Escobar, via Strategic Culture Amidst an astonishing, relentless, wide-ranging purge that shows no signs of abating, with...
Corbyn has no mates… in the lobbying business
by Tamasin Cave, for Spinwatch There couldn’t be a more stark illustration of what is wrong with our current...
The US democratic circus
by Jesse Marioneaux Annual party convention season in the United States combines comedy, farce, and melodrama in one rip-roaring...
Why I'm Ashamed I Voted Remain
by Stephen Durkan, via XXY I voted Remain on June 23rd, 2016, and now I am ashamed of it....
The Coup d’État Was against Kemalists
by Mehmet Perinçek, via Defend Democracy Turkish historian and political scientist, former political prisoner in the case of “Ergenekon,”...
Brexit: A Different Democracy, A Different Future
by Christopher Black, via New Eastern Outlook The historic Brexit vote marks a victory of the working people over...
Koch Brothers Now Supporting Hillary Clinton
by Eric Zuesse On July 20th, a Republican U.S. Senator lost his main financial backers for having urged Republicans...
Turkey Between Two Fascisms
by Jooneed Khan, via Global Research, July 19, 2016 [ President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, elected in 2014 and whose...
Brexit: A Workers’ Response to Oligarchs, Bankers, Flunkies and Scabs
by James Petras, July 14, 2016 Introduction: The European Union is controlled by an oligarchy, which dictates socio-economic and...
In Attempt to Dodge Suit, White House Argues Funding War Makes War Legal
by Nikita Knight, for Common Dreams A lawsuit filed earlier this year charging President Barack Obama with waging an...
Neoliberalism is a species of fascism
by Manuela Cadelli, President of the Magistrates’ Union of Belgium, via Defend Democracy The time for rhetorical reservations is...
America's Real Foreign Policy: Global Corporatization by Force
by Noam Chomsky, via Common Dreams (2014) The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one...
"If the FBI doesn't recommend charges, then she didn't break any law.”
by Eric Zuesse That seems to be the opinion of the majority of reader-comments at Reddit. In response to an article...
Democracy and Popular Sovereignty instead of Neoliberal Integration and a failed Euro-System!
This document was commonly developed by people from the Lexit Network. It was written and agreed before the Brexit...
Why Varoufakis’ DiEM2025 is fighting the wrong fight
by Will Denayer, for Fassneck Economics, May 24, 2016 Varoufakis This text deals with strategy, but strategy cannot be...
Clinton and Trump, Fear and Fascism
by Richard Moser, via Counterpunch We live in an age of consequences; intended and unintended; environmental and political. If...
The Collapse of Western Democracy
by Paul Craig Roberts Democracy no longer exists in the West. In the US powerful private interest groups, such...
