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What You Need to Know about Moldova’s Bans, Blacklists, and Last-minute Rule Changes
Moldova went to the polls on Sunday in what officials in Chisinau and Brussels have called a “milestone on the European path.” Yet with opposition parties banned, observers blocked, and voters in key regions sidelined, the election is being described less as a democratic contest and more like an attempt at forced pro-EU outcome. Moldova went to […]
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Back to the Future: NDP Must Debate Capitalism again
No CCF Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and put into operation the full programme of socialized planning which will lead to the establishment in Canada of the Cooperative Commonwealth. — 1933 Regina Manifesto During two months of campaigning to lead the NDP we’ve questioned the foundation of our economic system more […]
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Self-Determination for Eastern Ukraine?
Completely absent in any of the governmental efforts for the last three and a half years to end the war in Ukraine is the issue of self-determination as it relates concretely to where the on-the-ground war and the huge percentage of casualties are primarily happening. The principle of nations having the right to make decisions […]
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Mamdani’s Win in NYC Transforms America’s Mid-Term Political Contests
A typical initial take on the totally unexpected landslide win, by the self-declared socialist Zohran Mamdani, of the Democratic nomination for (and thus almost certainly) the Mayoralty of NYC, was Eric Levitz’s June 25 Vox News article “What Democrats can (and can’t) learn from Zohran Mamdani’s triumph,” which said that Some on the left have […]
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Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. — President Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Chance for Peace” speech, delivered on 16 April 1953 Seventy years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower […]
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When Media Tell Us Who “Won” a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions
AP (4/13/25) attributes Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s re-election to “voters weary of crime”—even though murders rose sharply under his administration. Elections in Latin America are often controversial. While many countries in the Global North regularly shuffle between parties offering alternating versions of neoliberalism, voting in Central and South America often offers starker contrasts: An anti-imperialist […]
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US Reinstates Funding to Propaganda Outlet
The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as “democracy promotion,” the NED channels government funds to opposition groups in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, meddling in their internal affairs. Regime change on […]
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Ten Commandments for the New American Century
First Commandment: THOU SHALT TAKE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS No money in politics. Zero! First, people should stand up and declare unequivocally they will not vote for anyone who takes ANY money from corporations, lobbyists and PACs. Then, down the road, by having elections 100% financed out of public funds, we can build a democracy […]
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Democracy or Plutocracy?
Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule). The confusion owes a great deal to the fact that the United States, at its founding, was somewhat more democratic than its contemporaries. In the […]
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