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Tag: Political ideologies

  • A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries

    The old lie: Dulce et decorum est /Pro patria mori (It is a sweet and fitting thing to die for one’s country”) – Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est“ Yes, it seems fitting that I am writing these words on November 11, Veterans Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day in Commonwealth countries, a day […]

  • The Very Definition of Tyranny: A Dictatorship Disguised as Democracy

    The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. —James Madison Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom, […]

  • A Third Party Perspective on the Rightward Lurch of the US Body Politic

    The chickens that the Democrats hatched in 2016 came home to roost in 2024. Back then, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), representing the party’s establishment, promoted Donald Trump as the Republican nominee. They thought him to be an easy mark who would be opposed by both the Republican Party establishment and most US voters. That […]

  • Post-Election Truths: The Things That Won’t Change (No Matter Who Wins)

    Post-Election Truths: The Things That Won’t Change (No Matter Who Wins)

    If voting could ever really change anything, it’d be illegal. — Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006) After months of handwringing and mud-slinging and fear-mongering, the votes have finally been cast and the outcome has been decided: the Deep State has won. Despite the billions spent to create the illusion of choice culminating in the […]

  • Internationalism: Is It Dead or Dying?

    It is difficult to think about Cuba without engaging emotionally. I couldn’t get back to sleep the other night, distressed over the tragic blackout of nearly the entire country with a hurricane approaching. Yes, the genocide in Palestine and Lebanon evokes similar fits of emotion and sleeplessness; the actions of the Israeli government are obscenely […]

  • Cross-Cultural Comparative Politics

    Cross-Cultural Comparative Politics

    Orientation What is politics? Nine Questions for Determining What is Politics In Part I of my article Seven Theories of Politics I posed ten questions for narrowing down what the range for defining what is politics. Temporal reach How far back into human history does politics go? Does politics go back to pre-state societies? Or […]

  • Iran and the Axis of Resistance

    Two years ago, Western media and academics reported that Iran was about to begin a new revolution in order to abolish the current political system, a legacy of the 1979 revolution. They dubbed this ‘new revolution, Woman, Life, Freedom,’ and described it as a feminist and democratic revolution. But as the Iranian public saw that […]

  • Western Support for Israel: A Colonial Legacy

    Western support for Israel’s high-tech genocide, justified in the name of the Holocaust, exposes the blatant hypocrisy of so-called ‘liberal values.’ The stakes of the current conflict extend beyond Palestinian liberation, challenging the deeply ingrained colonial mindset of the West at the heart of both global and domestic systems of oppression. For over a year […]

  • Our Revolutions Are for the Survival and Development of Human Civilisation

    Mereka Yang Terusir Dari Tanahnya (Those Chased Away from Their Land), 1960. Credit: Amrus Natalsya, a member of the Indonesian revolutionary cultural organisation Lekra. Next year is the seventieth anniversary of the Asian-African Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955 and attended by heads of government and state from twenty-nine African and Asian countries. Indonesia’s […]

  • MOLEGHAF: Armed Attacks in Port-au-Prince

    On October 20th, 2024, the National Movement for Liberty and Equality of Haitians for Fraternity (Mouvement National pour la Liberté et L’égalité des Haïtiens pour la Fraternité, MOLEGHAF), a member organization of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), issued a statement on the increasing violence perpetrated by the paramilitary group “Viv Ansanm” (or “Live Together”) […]

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