How Corrupt America’s Dictators Are
Eric Zuesse Yet another poll confirms that America’s dictatorial clique take advantage of the ignorance and gullibility of the average person so that the clique’s politicians can win votes...
America is one-dollar-one-vote, not one-person-one vote
Eric Zuesse The only comprehensive and scientific study which has ever been done of whether the U.S. is a democracy or instead a dictatorship, was published in 2014. It...
Venezuelan elections: chavismo still in power, US still belligerent, media still dishonest
by Ricardo Vaz from InvestigAction In a climate of dire economic war/crisis and foreign aggression, Venezuelans took to the polls to elect their president and regional legislative councils. Chavismo...
Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship
by Eric Zuesse first published at StrategicCulture.org The first time it became clear to me that I live in a dictatorship was in 2014 when reading, prior to its...
Two Years of "Wrong" Votes: The Media Take Aim at Democracy
Jeremy Corbyn has won two leadership contests, and gained the largest vote share for Labour in decades. Hillary Clinton had to cheat to get past Bernie Sanders, and was...
Liverpool United Aim for the Title
by W Stephen Gilbert Nobody worked harder at the Liverpool Conference than John McDonnell. You could count yourself unlucky if he didn’t breeze in at the session you were...
Did the UK Independent actually say democracy isn't working?
By Catte Yes. It did. or at least it published a WaPo piece (by “Emily Badger”), which says exactly that, albeit in slightly more MiniTrue wording. “Brexit reminds us...
Guardian Watch: Insults fly in post-Brexit hysteria
The world is still reeling from the referendum results - there is uncertainty in the air, real uncertainty, a rare creature in the modern era of controlled media consensus...
The Rise of the Corporatocracy
by Graham Vanbergen, via truepublica.org.uk Transnational corporations are wreaking havoc on financial, economic, social and ecological systems in a creeping colonisation of public life where just 147 organisations now...
"the referendum will be rigged"?
Do the PTB leave such crucial votes as the Brexit referendum to chance any more? OffG doesn't necessarily endorse Jeff Nielson's perspective here, but given what we know about...
U.S., UK, and EU, Are Now Dictatorships
by Eric Zuesse How can it be that in virtually all of the U.S. Presidential-candidate head-to-head Democratic versus Republican polling that was done of both Democratic and Republican candidates...
Varoufakis Speaks Out
by Vaska After a month of innuendos, false leaks and accusations in the press concerning what went on at the April 24 Riga Eurogroup meeting, using his own blog...
In the Grip of Corruption
by Vaska According to a Princeton University study, public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. One thing that does have an influence? Money. Nearly every issue [Americans] face as a nation is caught in the grip...
