Archive for the ‘Democracy in Peril’ Category
Dear President George W. Bush, I owe you an apology. I said some pretty mean things in the heat of your Presidency, and now that I’ve had some time to cool off, I want to tell you that I’m sorry and how much I’ve changed. I said some pretty awful things: I called you “the [...]
In Post 9/11 America, the United States took a dramatic turn away from the principles of law that have guided western civilization for the past several centuries. Fundamental notions of due process, habeus corpus, trial by jury, and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, have been fundamentally breached. Americans mostly seemed to accept these [...]
The 700 billion dollar bailout package that is likely to pass Congress this week is notable for several things. It is an unprecedented commitment of taxpayer revenue for a single purpose, it breaks hard with the governing free-market ideology that has dominated both parties for the past thirty years, and it grants unprecedented new powers [...]
When I talk to some of my friends about the dire situation this country is in and how our democracy has been dismantled, our rights taken away, with a press that exists to anesthetize us rather than inform us, I am invariably met with the same optimistically skeptical response. “Things aren’t that bad,” “Don’t you [...]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Journalist Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, is the most [...]
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