Democracy

The Myth of Western Democracy

2021-04-20White Nettle

Nowhere in the West do the people count. The American working class, betrayed by the Democrats who sent their jobs to Asia, elected Donald Trump and the American people were promptly dismissed by the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton as “the Trump deplorables” […]

How Corrupt is the American Government?

2021-04-14White Nettle

The biggest companies own the D.C. politicians. Indeed, the head of the economics department at George Mason University has pointed out that it is unfair to call politicians “prostitutes”. They are in fact pimps … selling out the American people for a price […]

The NATO Campaign Against Freedom of Expression

2021-04-02White Nettle

NATO first attempted to silence those citizens who were trying to discover the truth about the attacks of 11 September 2001 […]

Libya: Before and after the Fall of Moamer Gaddafi

2021-02-14White Nettle

Compare Libya with and after Col. Moamer Gaddafi. What “American democracy” changed in Libya – a reachest African country during Gaddafi’s “dictatorship” […]

The Rule of Law no Longer Exists in Western Civilization

2021-02-02White Nettle

I can attest with full confidence that the United States no longer has a rule of law. The USA is a lawless country. By that I do not mean what conservative Republicans mean, which is, if I understand them, that racial minorities violate law with something close to impunity […]

Barack Obama vs. Vladimir Putin: How Bloomberg ‘News’ Lies

2021-01-25White Nettle

It is up to the reader, and no one else, to determine whether Josh Rogin was the propagandist, or whether Eric Zuesse is […]

The Kurds, Terrorism and Kurdistan

2021-01-18White Nettle

There are many the so-called “stateless nations” or better to say “stateless cultures” or “stateless ethnolinguistic groups” in the world […]

Online Privacy for Journalists

2021-01-06White Nettle

A Must-Have Guide for Journalism in 2017 […]

Iraq’s Political Woes won’t end Without Comprehensive Judicial Reform

2020-12-24White Nettle

Since the political change in Iraq took place in 2003 with the US-led invasion to change Saddam’s regime, the Iraqi political and judicial system are unstable and very weak, even though the new regime has provided freedom and democracy to the state […]

Russia or the Neocons: Who Endangers American Democracy?

2020-12-24White Nettle

At the last presidential debate this electoral season, Hillary Clinton pretended to be appalled by Trump’s hypothetical refusal to accept the results of the November elections […]

Arms to the Sadists: US Congress Urges Pres. Obama to Provide Ukraine with More Torture Techniques

2020-12-23White Nettle

Based on the information collected by the FSD, a clear conclusion can be drawn that most of the torture victims are not members of the Donetsk or Lugansk People’s Republics’ self-defense forces, but civilians […]

Canada’s Nazi Problem

2020-12-20White Nettle

The question remains, while Trump is sending out distracting tweets and being distracted by Russia-gate, does he know who Freeland is? […]

Politics and Gender Issues

2020-12-09White Nettle

Historically, the study of gender has its roots in the anthropology of women and, therefore, is very often mistakenly to be only about women […]

What Results When the U.S. Invades a Country: “Bring Them Democracy”

2020-11-18White Nettle

Right now in Ukraine, the central political controversy is between the U.S.-puppet President of Ukraine, who promises to conquer both of the two breakaway provinces, Donbass and also Crimea […]

Twenty Years of Dictatorial Democracy

2020-11-11White Nettle

The United States may be on the verge of the biggest legitimacy crisis since the Civil War […]

Raining on Trump’s Parade

2020-11-05White Nettle

Like polls predicted a Hillary victory this electoral cycle, they said Dewey would defeat Truman back then – wrong both times […]

Western Democracy is an Endangered Species on its Way to Extinction

2020-10-29White Nettle

With the military dictatorship’s edict, independent news reporting no longer exists in Egypt. Washington is pleased and rewards the dictatorship with bags full of money paid by the hapless and helpless American taxpayers […]

Electronic Voting Fraud: A Real Threat to any Democrat Running for President

2020-10-29White Nettle

Do we really think the Kochs and their ilk would spend billions to sway our elections without throwing in some pocket change to flip the final tally? […]

US Meddling in Foreign Elections: A CIA Tradition since 1948

2020-10-12White Nettle

If the United States truly wants to halt foreign interference in elections, it must be the first to advocate and adhere to such a policy. Just as with the nuclear test-ban treaty, the convention to abolish biological and chemical weapons, and the treaty to prohibit weapons in outer space, the United States should call for an international treaty to ban election interference in all of its forms – the use of cyber-attacks, propaganda, social media manipulation, and funding of foreign political parties […]

The Ambiguity: The Case of Democracy

2020-10-03White Nettle

There’s no single, universal design of democracy that fits all societies, countries and all regions of the world with their respective historical phases, levels/stages of development, all classes and class alignments in the societies […]