“The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. And it’s the responsible men who have to make decisions and to protect society from the trampling and rage of the bewildered herd. Now since it’s a democracy they – the herd, that is – [...]
. You do not have to be a Nobel Laureate in some form of Social Science to realise that the world system of authority and capitalism is facing, if not the end of its time, then at least a severe period of public dislike. The simple fact that the vast majority have virtually everything they have and have produced stolen by the elites who then [...]
The US Double Standard on Elections in Latin America and the Caribbean by Alexander Main and Daniel McCurdy The U.S. government has a puzzling approach to elections in the hemisphere. Back in November 2009, the State Department considered that elections held under Honduras’s brutal coup regime were “free and fair,” despite widespread press censorship and the imposition [...]
Click the image to enlarge or see more. Reuters/Stringer Soldiers beat demonstrators with batons in Cairo‘s Tahrir Square on Saturday in a second day of clashes that have killed nine people and wounded more than 300, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember, on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. Related articles Photographs from inside [...]
What’s Missing: Non-Electoral Politics By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/non-electoral-politics Lately, the phrase “public servants” has struck me as ironic, not because government officials fail to serve the public, but because much of the public serves them. The public is the servants. Activist groups and individuals devote themselves to bettering the fortunes of political parties or politicians, [...]
Politics can be amusing and still be serious. On some occasions you can get some insight into the nature of the beast from the beastly parts- like the politicians and the media who make up the travelling zoo that comes in the package you vote for. Here in Australia we have a completely unelected Prime Minister [...]
