democracy

Cummings’ confessional was a masterclass in treachery and showed UK democracy is broken… but it won’t harm Teflon BoJo

I don’t think I have ever seen anything like the BBC’s interview with Dominic Cummings, the former Downing Street special…

3 years ago

‘Save our democracy’: Texas Democrats RUN AWAY to Washington in bid to block state voter reform

“My Democratic colleagues and I are leaving the state to break quorum and kill the Texas voter suppression bill,” James…

3 years ago

Trump was spied on, so why not Tucker? There is no room for dissent in Our Democracy

Wednesday’s revelation – in the Washington political gossip outlet Axios – that Carlson was emailing “Kremlin intermediaries” in order to…

3 years ago

Postal voting on demand is an affront to British democracy and George Galloway may be about to shine a light on it

Following Labour’s surprise victory in the Batley and Spen by-election, Sir Keir Starmer, the party leader, declared that “Labour is…

3 years ago

Zizek: Assange turns 50 in jail – a reminder of a Western democracy paradox he exposed, where non-freedom gives a sense of freedom

Today, WikiLeaks co-founder Assange is celebrating his 50th birthday, being held at the Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London as Washington…

3 years ago

A year on from imposing its ‘draconian’ new security law in Hong Kong, has China ‘crushed democracy’ in the former British colony?

It’s now been one year since China's National People's Congress passed the "National Security Law” - a sweeping bill tailored…

3 years ago

America is doing a pretty good job of undermining its own democracy – it doesn’t need any help from the Iranian media

In a blistering effort to support “freedom” in Iran, the US authorities recently seized the web domains of its international media…

3 years ago

‘Democracy is dead’: Time-travelling Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom star in ‘cringe’ pro-Democrat political ad to conservative mockery

Released on Thursday, the ad stars Perry and Bloom as a pair of ragtag freedom fighters living under a presumably…

3 years ago

I’m on a ‘hit list’ Kiev allows to silence dissent & journalism. That’s all you need to know about Ukrainian ‘democracy’

Last week, photojournalist Dean O’Brien participated in a United Nations meeting to give his perspective on the war in Donbass,…

3 years ago

Facebook’s autocratic Trump ban has tightened big business’s grip on democracy & freedom of expression. We should shudder in fear

Every democrat in the world should be sitting up and trembling in fear and indignation over the decision taken by…

3 years ago