democracy
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 68, 4 April, 2009 Some thoughts about socialism
Wall Street has not only an army of lawyers and accountants, but a horde of mathematicians with advanced degrees searching for the perfect equations to separate people from their money. Continue reading
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Living (and dying) in the age of barbarism By William Bowles
It surely cannot have escaped your attention that our much vaunted ‘democracies’ are in fact barbarian states masquerading as civilized. Continue reading
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Tim Black: An intolerable attack on all of us, the people
The arrest of Damian Green is an historic insult against parliamentary sovereignty, and ultimately against us, the people. The police should retreat immediately. And parliament should seek to rediscover the sense of democratic purpose that once saw it clash with kings and lords in its defence of the people’s rights. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS: CAN THIS BE TRUE? GEORGE MONBIOT CHALLENGES MEDIA LENS ON HYPOCRISY
How casually Monbiot has chosen to confront us with this damning public criticism. This, of course, is how internet-based media with essentially no resources are often treated by corporate journalism. If Monbiot had been targeting a powerful think tank or political party, he would perhaps have checked if the posting was “correct” Continue reading
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Book Review: Democracy versus the people By Slavoj Zizek
Peter Hallward writes in Damming the Flood, a detailed account of the “democratic containment” of Haiti’s radical politics in the past two decades, “never have the well-worn tactics of ‘democracy promotion’ been applied with more devastating effect than in Haiti between 2000 and 2004”. Continue reading
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Robert Mugabe, yet another man the West loves to hate By William Bowles
And as long as Mugabe left Britain’s ‘kith and kin’ alone (the settler farmers), it was quite happy to let Zanu-PF spout all kinds of socialist rhetoric, as long as he didn’t actually implement any of it. Thus all the statements out of the West about the ‘miracle’ of Zimbabwe, the ‘bread basket’ of Southern… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, June 6, 2008 By William Blum
6 June 2006 — Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life The Empire — A Status Report There are a number of expressions and slogans associated with the Nazi regime in Germany which have become commonly known in English. ‘Sieg Heil!’ — Victory Hail! ‘Arbeit macht Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, March 29, 2008
Anti-Empire Report, March 29, 2008, Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life William Blum www.killinghope.org Propaganda as an Olympic competition The latest protests in Tibet and crackdown by Chinese authorities have brought up the usual sermonizing in the West about Chinese government oppression and illegitimate control of the Continue reading
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Empty Calories of Economic Growth and the Battle for Participatory Democracy—Latin America's New Middle Class – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Empty Calories of Economic Growth and the Battle for Participatory Democracy—Latin America’s New Middle Class – Council on Hemispheric Affairs The past two decades have witnessed a series of political and economic rollercoaster rides all over Latin America. However, with economic ‘stability’ being used as a tagline for positive growth and suitable political fervor, a Continue reading
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Which way is up? by William Bowles
3 December 2007 A major blight of the ‘Left’, at least in my experience, is that it spends more time in-fighting than out. Why this should be so I’ll leave up to the psychoanalysts (or perhaps anthropologists?) to explain but it is surely a legacy we could well do without. My feeling is that is Continue reading
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Media Lens: Facts are not sacred: Royal Tantrums And The Cold War Billions
August 9, 2007 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media When Royals Attack The big media story of the last month has been the BBC apology to the Queen for showing footage that implied she had stormed out of a portrait session during a documentary. This followed the revelation that Continue reading
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Law ‘n’ disorder By William Bowles
Far from being secure in its post-Communist world, Capital reveals to all and sundry just how insecure it is. But it is no simple matter to simply dispose of the ‘luxury of democracy’ as and when the State dictates, it has after all spent the better part of a century convincing us that capitalist ‘democracy’… Continue reading
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The Lesser of Two Evils By William Bowles
Much play has been made of ‘tactical voting’, especially by the ‘left’ pundits, the argument being as ever, that we have to keep the Tories out. But the ‘good old days’ of a ‘real’ Labour government are long gone (were they ever there in the first place?). In any case, the chances of a Tory… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Priorities of Power – The Real Meaning Of Elections In Iraq
In truth it is quite wrong to describe the corporate media as ‘mainstream’. We wouldn’t describe Flat Earthism as mainstream geology, nor would we describe Mein Kampf as mainstream political philosophy. There isn’t a cultural or philosophical tradition on the planet that takes seriously the idea that truth-telling can be reconciled with greed. The idea… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 