Democracy has been corrupted

Excerpts of an article by Chris Hedges Democracy, a system ideally designed to challenge the status quo, has been corrupted and tamed to slavishly serve the status quo. We have undergone, as John Ralston Saul writes, a coup d’état in slow motion. We can write letters to our elected officials … but the power elite […]

The corporate state is firmly in place

Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d’état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost. The ruling exposes the myth of a functioning democracy.  The corporate state is firmly cemented in place. Corporations have 35,000 lobbyists in Washington and thousands more […]

Totalitarianism defined

If our country came under the control of a totalitarian regime, would we recognize it? This question is of utmost importance today, as we witness the regular passage of legislation designed to restrict and regulate, and the tendency of the Federal government to increase rather than decrease its power. The trouble with diagnosing our condition […]