We Can Safeguard Democracy Without Giving in to Fear and More Policing
With voter intimidation and political violence on the rise, it’s time to invest in proven nonviolent, civilian-led safety endeavors.
Patrick Lawrence: Power for the Sake of Power
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost When I awoke Saturday morning, I found my thoughts wandering back a decade, when my siblings and I plotted to get our father’s…
One Night for Biden, Four Bad Years for Us?
By Les Leopold / Substack The spinmeisters are twirling away trying to convince us that President Biden only had a bad night. It happens to all of us, doesn’t it?…
We Can Safeguard Democracy Without Giving in to Fear and More Policing
With voter intimidation and political violence on the rise, it’s time to invest in proven nonviolent, civilian-led safety endeavors.
We Ignore the Ongoing Collapse of American Democracy at Our Peril
Fascism can happen here and we know this because it is happening here. And unless more people wake up and fight back, it will be too late.
Indigenous Leaders Saved Guatemala’s Fragile Democracy
More than a hundred days of Indigenous-led protest played a key role in defending Guatemala’s democracy, but the struggle continues.
Imperial Costs: Two Stories Summarize the Cost of Empire to Democracy
By Matthew Hoh / CounterPunch Two press reports stood out to me this week: the release of the names of two US Navy SEALs who drowned two weeks ago in…
What If Our Society Valued Civics as It Does Entertainment?
The people of good will and the tools of democratic transformation are available or attainable but mostly latent in our existing civic institutions.
John Pilger: We are Spartacus
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape…
Ex-UK Amb. Craig Murray: “The US Has Completely Ceased to be a Democracy”
By Max Blumenthal / The Grayzone Craig Murray is the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, a whistleblower, journalist and one of the leading voices for the freedom of Julian Assange.…
How Guatemalans are Mobilizing to Defend Their Fragile Democracy
A multipronged movement in Guatemala is rising to defend the surprise election of a progressive president who is under attack from the corrupt old guard.
Missing Links in Textbook History: Defining Democracy
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide." — John Adams in a letter to John…