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Celebrations as Chile votes by huge majority to scrap Pinochet-era constitution

By Charis McGowan* – The Guardian A plebiscite called in response to street protests in 2019 sees 78% of people back a new charter to replace one imposed by military dictator Chile has voted overwhelmingly in favor of rewriting the country’s… Continue Reading →

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“A Blow Against Neoliberalism”: Socialist Wins Bolivian Election a Year After Coup

By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Former Bolivian President Evo Morales’s political party MAS has claimed victory in the country’s presidential election, with Morales’s handpicked successor Luis Arce securing over 50% of the vote, according to exit polls. If confirmed,… Continue Reading →

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Liberalism and Its Discontents. The challenges from the left and the right

Francis Fukuyama* – American Purpose newsletters Today, there is a broad consensus that democracy is under attack or in retreat in many parts of the world. It is being contested not just by authoritarian states like China and Russia, but by… Continue Reading →

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Trump and Biden offer starkly different visions of US role in world

By Julian Borger* – The Guardian   The world is anxiously watching the election, with the candidates far apart on issues such as the climate crisis and nuclear weapons Foreign policy barely gets a mention in this US election, but for… Continue Reading →

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USA 2020: does democracy still exist?

By Roberto Savio* The US is a hopelessly divided, and dysfunctional country Let’s take a look at the American elections which at this moment are important not only for the United States but also for the entire world. The American… Continue Reading →

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Europe, the USA and China

By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The statements by the US ambassador in his interview to the weekly Expresso on 26 September are offensive to the Portuguese people and a violation of diplomatic codes of conduct. He threatened that the US… Continue Reading →

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THE PROMISE & PERILS OF MEDIOCRACIES

By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media We humans have evolved a new form of governance beyond our machine age democracies: toward radical still unruly participatory mediocracies in our Information Age, as I first described in 1964 and in “Mediocracies and Their… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Democracy

The First Presidential Debate Was an Alarm Call for American Democracy

By  John Cassidy* –  The New Yorker As the reverberations from Tuesday night’s shambolic Presidential debate echoed around Washington on Wednesday, Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, the sole Black Republican in the upper house of Congress, called on President Donald Trump to correct… Continue Reading →

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To “transform the world”, only one solution: full support to democratic multilateralism

By Federico Mayor* Five years after the Agreement of Paris on climate Change and the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on the Agenda 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals), the measures adopted have not been implemented, with a very severe… Continue Reading →

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A Third World War – Which so Many Had Feared — Has Been Avoided, Says UN Chief

By António Guterres* The UN Secretary-General, in a statement marking the 75th anniversary of the United Nations UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22 2020 (IPS) – The ideals of the United Nations – peace, justice, equality and dignity — are beacons to… Continue Reading →

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American Democracy Is in the Mail

By Daniel Carpenter* – Boston Review U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other In 2004 Muriel Ponder joined the U.S. Postal Service as a mechanic; she… Continue Reading →

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Towards a New World Social Forum

Sept. 1, 2020 Next January the World Social Forum will turn 20 years old. Its appearance in 2001, summoning the various social movements, activists and intellectuals to confront the prevailing neoliberalism, was a worldwide event. From this beginning, there were many mass… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Democracy

Why Capitalism Is in Constant Conflict With Democracy

By Richard D. Wolff* – Economy for All The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage beyond the rich who possessed… Continue Reading →

Democracy, Economy / Finance, Neo-liberalism

Biden’s Choice of Kamala Harris Is Historic—And Necessary | Opinion

By Aimee Allison* – Newsweek Remember this moment. For Black women and women of color across the country, Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate marks a watershed moment—one that rightly honors the integral role Black… Continue Reading →

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DECLARATION ON THE FUTURE OF THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

The Latin American Reflection Roundtable (*) The Latin American Reflection Roundtable, echoing and in support of the statements of Latin American former Presidents, former Foreign Ministers and former Ministers of State, has convened a large and diverse group of personalities… Continue Reading →

Democracy, Economy / Finance

A LETTER TO THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM

FROM AN OPEN SPACE TO A SPACE FOR ACTION Is the World Social Forum, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021, just an open space or can it (should it) also be a space for action? This question has been discussed… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Democracy

Trump Can’t Delay the Election—So He’s Trying to Make It a Chaotic Mess

By John Nichols*-  The Nation Trump is losing. So he’s lying. The way to counter his lies is with facts and an action plan for easy, safe, and fair voting on November 3. On the morning of July 30, 96… Continue Reading →

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Whether He’ll Leave Office If He Loses

By Democracy Now!  World-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky , linguist and author, is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for more… Continue Reading →

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Introducing “An Economic Program for American Democracy”

Posted  by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. We’re pleased to be presenting a post from a new site, RGK, which stands for “Reviving Growth Keynesianism”. It’s mission, as its proprietor Nicholas Johnson, explains, is to “republish and circulate… Continue Reading →

Democracy, Economy / Finance

Creating a World That Works for Black Lives

The Berrett-Koehler Team (1) “Ethical Markets (2) fully supports Jerroll Sanders in her tireless advocacy for justice, democratic and economic reforms in the USA to include our African-American communities. We are honored to have Jerroll Sanders, brilliant independent IT specialist and community… Continue Reading →

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