by John Feffer | Dec 11, 2019 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
Coups have been one of the greatest threats to democracy. The people elect a daring leader willing to take on the status quo. And then, as in Iran in 1953 or Chile in 1973, the military pushes the leader aside to take control. Sometimes the generals remain in power;...
by John Feffer | Nov 13, 2019 | Democracy & Governance, Environment, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev
The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago. It was one of the few unambiguously joyous moments in modern history. This popular, nonviolent explosion of dissent effectively toppled East Germany’s despotic regime. And it signaled, if only symbolically, the end of the Cold War...
by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies | Feb 6, 2019 | Democracy & Governance, Energy, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
In 1995, William Blum wrote a masterful book, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, in which he chronicled 55 U.S. regime change operations around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994). Since 1995, the U.S. has been...
by John Feffer | Nov 28, 2018 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
Nation-states: what a quaint notion. As a means of organizing territory, they seem to be a brief transition period between large empires and an even larger, borderless world. Sure, nation-states might live on in the form of anthems and flags and independence days, but...
by Conn Hallinan | Sep 17, 2018 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev
Does the British Labor Party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, have an “anti-Semitism problem,” or has the party’s left wing been targeted by the Israeli government for its support of the growing boycott and divestment movement that challenges Israel’s...
