Our republic is democratic in that it is controlled by public opinion, but our Constitution requires patience and persistence for the people to express that opinion through elections. Our Founders did not believe that the people have a right to enact whatever laws the majority necessarily want, but, rather, that the people have a right […]
Transparency and bipartisanship must equally apply to the release of the Mueller, Clinton and Page investigations–and the possible leaking of Republican Party campaign material to the Democrats obtained during the Page surveillance By David Singer Transparency, bipartisanship and redaction are set to become the new buzzwords in American politics as the Congress in a rare moment of bipartisanship – by a vote […]
The overwhelming majority of Catalans who participated in the banned referendum have voted in favor of independence from Spain, the Catalan government has announced. Over two million Catalans, or 90.9 percent of those who voted said ‘Yes’ in Sunday’s referendum, regional authorities said. Only 7,87 percent, or 176,565 voters said ‘No’ when asked if they […]
If You Only Read The New York Times And Washington Post, You Have No Idea The Soros Leak Happened On June 4, 2016, the New York Times editorial board wrote an article titled “Big Money Rearranges Its Election Bets.” “Both parties are busy exploiting the power of barely regulated super PACs to accept unlimited six- […]
by michael hudson In his Orwellian September 28, 2015 speech to the United Nations, President Obama said that if democracy had existed in Syria, there never would have been a revolt against Assad. By that, he meant ISIL. Where there is democracy, he said, there is no violence or revolution. This was his threat to […]
by Daniel Luban In a recent interview, the conservative Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis argues that the Arab world is not ready for free and fair elections. This may be surprising coming from the man whose theories about“the roots of Muslim rage” were a major inspiration for the Bush administration’s democracy promotion agenda. Nevertheless, in […]
In 2011 Obama said “We’re Promoting Democracy In Libya”, then Obama went on to bombing Libya to promote that ‘democracy’. So how well has it turned out? Well its a humanitarian disaster as Libya continues to descend in chaos and atrocities. The full impact of Western intervention in Libya was recently highlighted during a televised […]
Elections: The National Council of La Raza is promoting no-identification voting states to its followers. Might that have something to do with its advocacy of illegal immigration and the Democrats’ flagging electoral fortunes? La Raza, as it’s known, is no ordinary nongovernmental organization in the “anti-poverty” racket. A group of lawyers and activists, it has […]
By Douglas V. Gibbs The desire to kill political speech on the internet is nothing new, when it comes to the liberal left progressive Democrats. Their goal is not to win in the arena of ideas, but to eliminate any voice that dares to speak out against them in the arena of ideas. In the […]
by Martin Armstrong via Armstrong Economics blog: Part of the war cycle is just the general feeling or attitude shifts due to economics. We seem to be headed for such a fateful turn. The police domestically have turned militaristic. This is a very serious issue far beyond what most people would even guess. It tends to show […]
