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21. Deauwand Myers

Democracy has fallen

The American midterm elections this year will be the most consequential ones since at least I was born. If Republicans win back the House of Representatives and or the Senate, a white, Christo-fascist, illiberal party with a death cult of personality for Trump or Trumpism will be in power. President Biden could be impeached for no reason, show trials of Cabinet officials will occur, horrific policies like a universal abortion ban, and even worse, will happen.

2022-08-01 16:00

Fake news was used thousands of years ago for propaganda, fear-mongering, populism, and political opportunism. It's nothing new.

2022-07-04 16:54

'The Handmaid's Tale'

Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, "The Handmaid's Tale," explores a near-future America (renamed after the biblical nation-state, Gilead) where women are sexually enslaved to be breeding machines (handmaids) for military and political elites. In this Christo-fascist regime, sexual minorities, adherents of other religions and political dissidents are sent to toxic labor/concentration camps, tortured, maimed, and/or summarily executed. Women, even of the ruling military theocracy, don't have much autonomy or personal agency, if at all

2022-06-06 17:00

Conservatives across advanced democracies share a similar ideology. They believe in “less government,” smaller social safety nets, neoliberal economic policies, and are hostile to workers' rights while fetishizing concentrated wealth and free markets. But no conservative political party in any democratic country is as radical and unhinged as the American Republicans (henceforth called the GOP, or “Grand Old Party”).

2022-05-09 16:41

Whiteness and COVID-19

COVID-19, as deadly and crippling as it can be, provided, and indeed is providing, an important trove of information by which we can measure the scourge of white supremacist imperialism and the lethal consequences thereof.

2022-04-26 16:34

A lesson for Xi

Russian President Vladimir Putin thought his modernized military would make quick work of Ukraine, since Russia has better military technology and more troops at its disposal than its smaller neighbor. He thought he could topple the democratically-elected Ukrainian government and install a puppet regime loyal to the Kremlin.

2022-04-11 16:35

“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, rejecting the international community's offer of helping him flee Ukraine at the onset of the Russian invasion.

2022-03-14 16:35

Why conservatives win

Particularly in Europe, the 20th century is replete with cases where conservative elites - so bent on maintaining their grip on political power - backed rightist, populist demagogues.

2022-02-14 17:00

Goodbye, democracy?

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, during the formal impeachment of then U.S. President Donald Trump, rehashed a famous quote of our founding fathers: “On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when our Constitution was adopted, Americans gathered on the steps of Independence Hall...They (really it was the politically astute socialite Elizabeth Willing Powel of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) asked Benjamin Franklin, 'What do we have, a republic or a monarchy?' Franklin replied, 'A republic, if you can keep it.' Our responsibility is to keep it.”

2022-01-17 16:53

Sensitive China

China has a long and rich history. Technologically, scholarly, and governing-wise, China was 500 years ahead of most of the ancient world. Single-sheet paper, mechanical clocks, gunpowder, guns, fireworks, and long works of literature were all invented or perfected there.

2021-12-20 16:20

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