Democracy

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*) First published 20/10/2017 Never since the Cuban Missile Crisis has there been such an unstable situation in the global political system, including...

From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages by Jonathan Cook Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is...

Le géant américain d'internet développe actuellement des algorithmes spécifiques visant à rendre les publications des médias RT et Sputnik moins visibles sur son moteur...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*) Never since the Cuban Missile Crisis has there been such an unstable situation in the global political system, including the system...

The deeply undemocratic character of the French electoral system has been demonstrated once again in the recent elections. Mr. Macron as voted by 18.5%...

First Published at 21/10/2011 65 years after the defeat of nazism and fascism, European people are today confronting a dramatic threat, this time not military,...

By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya* Recent media reports in Sri Lanka reveal that a $13.7 million USAID-funded program for ‘democracy and accountability’ is to be implemented by...

To be sure, the union was designed to establish a transnational capitalist bloc capable of competing on the world market. The euro’s adoption moved further in that direction. However, nation-states — in economic competition with one another — created this bloc to begin with. It is therefore insufficient to focus only on capital’s transnationalization; we must

Paul Horner, the 38-year-old impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire, has made his living off viral news hoaxes for several years. He has twice convinced the Internet that he’s British graffiti artist Banksy; he also published the very viral, very fake news of a Yelp vs. “South Park” lawsuit last year.

We have gone from a nation that took great pride in being a model of a representative democracy to being a model of how to persuade the citizenry to march in lockstep with a police state. In doing so, we have proven Osama Bin Laden right. He warned that “freedom and human