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On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) said that unless federal voting legislation is passed, “we are going to lose our democracy” when the Texas House Democrats who are breaking quorum return to Texas. Escobar said, “In a state like mine, Texas, literally, we are going to lose our democracy through Texas […]
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Dem Rep. Escobar: Unless We Pass Voting Laws, ‘We Are Going to Lose Our Democracy’ When TX Dems Return
July 31st, 2021 
Wake Up Fools At A Convention Like No Other, Teamster Challengers Turn A Corner
July 16th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Above Photo: Teamsters United. This was a Teamsters convention like no other—and not just because it was held online, avoiding the usual Las Vegas spectacle where a few brave reformers run a gauntlet of booing red-vested delegates. Even in person, the 2021 convention wouldn’t have gone down that way. The opposition slate didn’t just squeak […]
The Democracy vs. Freedom Dispute
July 12th, 2021 Wake Up Fools July 1, 2021 by Lawrence Davidson Part I—Democracy and Freedom In the United States, there is a dispute over whether democracy and freedom are compatible. Some, such as Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, have questioned their compatibility, and even asserted that freedom, rather than democracy, is what the U.S. really stands for. These terms are […]
The GOP is trying to outlaw democracy
July 4th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Image Credit: Khalil Bendib/OtherWords.org Ralph Waldo Emerson told of a dinner guest who went on and on about the virtue of honesty, offering his own life as a model of perfect rectitude. “The louder he talked of his honor,” said Emerson, “the faster we counted our spoons.” That’s my reaction to the cacophony of phony […]
We can have the filibuster or democracy, but not both
June 30th, 2021 Wake Up Fools The American political system is complicated, but fixing it doesn’t have to be. Voters of all stripes broadly agree on the kinds of changes they’d like to see. We need less money in politics. It should be easier to vote — early, in person, or by mail. And voters should be able to pick their […]
Democracy Dies At The Washington Post Editorial Board
June 20th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Above Photo: Antonio Cabrera. In the Soviet Union, everybody was aware that the media was controlled by the state. But in a corporate state like the U.S., a veneer of independence is still maintained, although trust in the media has been plummeting for years. Washington — The Washington Post’s glaring conflicts of interest have of late […]
UK Police Arrests Man over the Severe Crime of Chasing BBC Reporter and telling him ‘Traitor’
June 18th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Western Democracy at work… if this is what democracy is then no thank you, we renounce democracy, we don’t need it, we don’t like it. This has got to be one of the most demented reasons in the history of UK for an arrest but regardless, here’s the story from the Daily Mail: […]
Why One State in India Is Showing Promising Signs of Democracy
May 23rd, 2021 Wake Up Fools Above Photo: Kerala morning / Bruno Arunjunai Just before the state elections in Kerala, in southern India, a television channel ran a program called “The Great Political Kitchen.” The anchor went to kitchens across the state to talk to homemakers about their views on politics. In one kitchen, the anchor asked a woman about a dispute surrounding […]
THE GREAT RESET IS ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS TO DEMOCRACY & FREEDOM
May 16th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Independent MP Craig Kelly says the great reset is “one of the greatest threats” facing our freedoms and our democracy.“ https://odysee.com/@WhatIsTruth_WasIstWahrheit_2:f/THE-GREAT-RESET-IS-ONE-OF-THE-GREATEST-THEATS-TO-DEMOCRACY—FREEDOM:e Share this: Like this: Like Loading… Source 00
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No Comments »The end of (inconvenient) protest?
May 15th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Among the most important innovations brought about by America’s experiment with a democratic republic, the country’s bill of rights established freedoms for citizens that many people throughout the world are still fighting for. The country’s history can in some ways be understood as the story of a simmering conflict between ordinary working people and powerful […]
Muscular MAN dressed up as Woman to compete at Tokyo Olympic Games as Weightlifter
May 6th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Russia had its athletes banned over generally unproven doping accusations, they even had their flag banned as punishment because they were cheating but hey, let’s put a dress on a huge muscular Weightlifter male, call him transgender woman and send him to compete with the girls… and that’s not cheating!!!!!!!!!!!! Nope, in fact […]
On Contact: Securing Democracy With Glenn Greenwald
April 19th, 2021 Wake Up Fools On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to the US journalist Glenn Greenwald about how his reporting exposed the corruption that is rife among Brazil’s political, judicial, and economic elite. Greenwald was able to show, through a trove of documents, how President Jair Bolsonaro and his crypto-fascist party manipulated the legal system with […]
Tell the Senate to pass the For the People Act
April 13th, 2021 Wake Up Fools More than 200 bills have been introduced in many states nationwide taking away voting rights that now more than ever the For the People Act needs to be passed in the Senate. The bill, which passed in the House on March 3, is a comprehensive reform package that will help protect and expand access to […]
Black Islamist Rams Car Into White Capitol Cop Near White House, White People Get Blamed Anyway
April 3rd, 2021 Wake Up Fools Home » Crimes, North America, Terrorism » Black Islamist Rams Car Into White Capitol Cop Near White House, White People Get Blamed Anyway The suspect shot dead after ramming his car into barriers outside the US Capitol has been identified by NBC News and other media outlets as Noah Green, a 25-year-old black […]
‘Hijacking of democracy in plain sight’: Georgia GOP transforms 2-page bill into 93-page assault on voting rights
March 19th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups are accusing Georgia state Republicans of launching an ambush attack on the franchise after GOP lawmakers transformed a two-page bill limiting who is permitted to send absentee ballot applications into a sprawling 93-page omnibus package that would significantly alter election laws and curtail voting rights. The anger began to build Wednesday afternoon when Republican lawmakers […]
Posted in democracy Tags: assault, democracy, Georgia, hijacking, plain, sight, transforms No Comments »How The Third Way Turned Its Back On Democracy
March 4th, 2021 Wake Up Fools The Third Way which conquered the centre-left during the 1990s brought with it a hostility to democratic politics – the public would have to adapt to the demands of market, not the other way around. The problem of democratic representation has always turned on the question of the ‘have-nots’ — that is, not only those […]
Red Lines: Vijay Prashad Explains Myanmar Coup
February 24th, 2021 Wake Up Fools [embedded content] Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Vijay Prashad, historian and Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter, about the military’s recent takeover in Myanmar. “The first thing that people should know is that Aung San was the state councilor based on an agreement made between the military in Myanmar, the opposition movements that had been […]
Sitrep: How Democratic is China?
February 23rd, 2021 Wake Up Fools February 21, 2021 Locally called Happy Grandpa By Godfree Roberts – selected from his extensive weekly newsletter : Here Comes China You can get it here: https://www.herecomeschina.com/#subscribe Having recently read Godfree’s latest book, Why China Rules the World, I learned about trial spots, the history of these and how basically everything that is accepted by the population, gets trialed first, […]
Ecuador Elections: Arauz And Lasso Advance To Second Round
February 21st, 2021 Wake Up Fools Above photo: According to the CNE, over 80,97 percent of the electoral roll participated in the elections. Twitter/ @AgenciaTelam. With 100 percent of the ballot records processed, the electoral body reported that the Union for Hope (UNES) Andres Arauz won with 32.72 percent of the votes while Lasso received 19.74 percent. Ecuador’s National Electoral Council […]
Will Andrés Arauz Be The Next President Of Ecuador?
February 19th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Above photo: While Andrés Arauz came won the largest vote share in the elections held on February 7, the next steps in the process are unclear. Twitter. Uncertainty looms over the electoral process in Ecuador as it has still not been made clear who will face off against front-runner Andrés Arauz in the second round […]
Understanding The Complicated Politics And Geopolitics Of The Coup In Myanmar
February 12th, 2021 Wake Up Fools On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military—known as the Tatmadaw—invoked Article 417 of the 2008 constitution, dismissed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, and arrested her and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Condemnation of the coup was swift, although there would be reason for hesitancy in the reaction: Aung San Suu […]
Posted in coup, democracy Tags: complicated, geopolitics, Myanmar, politics, understanding No Comments »Americans are Sick of Democracy: Only 16% Support it According to AP Poll
February 10th, 2021 Wake Up Fools In a shocking shift of new developments, it appears that the vast majority of Americans no longer support democracy and would prefer another form of government instead. The alternatives to democracy is only authoritarian nationalism or authoritarian communism or monarchy. There are only 3 alternatives so either way, whichever is their preferred alternative, […]
André Arauz Wins First Round Of Ecuadorian Presidential Election
February 8th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Above photo: (From left) Andrés Arauz, Guillermo Lasso and Yaku Pérez. Pichincha Comunicaciones. Heads to run-off on April 11. According to the quick count, Andrés Arauz of the progressive Union for Hope alliance (UNES) won 31.74% of the votes. However, its still unclear who his opponent will be as two candidates are technically tied for […]
Posted in democracy Tags: andre, arauz, ecuadorian, election, first, presidential, round No Comments »B’Tselem’s historic declaration: Israel’s open war on its own civil society
January 29th, 2021 Wake Up Fools “A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid,” was the title of a January 12 report by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. No matter how one is to interpret B’Tselem’s findings, the report is earth-shattering. The official Israeli response merely confirmed what B’Tselem has stated in no […]
Why There Are So Many Policy Failures Despite the Existence of Democracy and Batteries of Experts
January 27th, 2021 Wake Up Fools The incidence and frequency of major policy failures has been increasing in some of the major countries of the world , including the USA, UK, Brazil, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan, to mention only some of the more obvious examples. This has brought immense and avoidable distress to hundreds of millions of people, apart […]
Opening The Door To A More Democratic UAW
January 27th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Above photo: The Auto Workers struck General Motors in 2019. A referendum on direct elections of top officers creates an opening for new leadership and new strategy in a union that has accepted wave after wave of concessions during seven decades of one-party rule. Jim West/jimwestphoto.com. In December the leadership of the United Auto Workers […]
In 2021 Orwellian USA: Words are violence, Voting is terrorism, Free speech is a threat
January 20th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Determined to stamp out ‘wrongthink’ in all forms, the media establishment has declared a holy war against free speech. Once the bedrock of US society, it faces a redefinition into something more convenient – or oblivion. If everyone is permitted to speak freely, their reasoning goes, people’s lives will be put at risk. […]
Disenfranchisement: An American Tradition
January 18th, 2021 Wake Up Fools Disenfranchisement: An American Tradition Above photo: Rudolph Giuliani conducts a news conference on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on November 19, 2020. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images. Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself. During the […]
Our Democratic Prospects: What The Ming Dynasty Can Tell Us
January 15th, 2021 Wake Up Fools ‘Good government’ has always rested on equitable distributions of wealth and power. How best to understand the assault on the Capitol this week? Might some historical perspective help us better comprehend how endangered our democracy has become? Could that perspective point us to a more promising post-Trump path? A global team of anthropologists from the […]
Uganda Shuts Down All Social Media Ahead of Election Due to US Meddling
January 14th, 2021 Wake Up Fools President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda president has blocked Facebook from operating in his country, just days after the social media company removed “fake accounts” linked to his government ahead of a hotly contested general election set to take place on Thursday. Note that we have no idea or evidence that these were “fake […]
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