Democracy

The impunity with which successive Greek governments and Greece's media moguls operate makes the Greek case stand out.

Social justice activists' biggest challenge is to provide an alternative discourse that can convince US citizens that real democracy is worth fighting for.

The Harper government is capitalizing on two recent attacks to curtail Canadians' civil rights.

Engage, and start the conversation of democracy where you live - in your apartment complex, on your block, in your neighborhood.

In Oregon, the capture of local government by the timber industry results in the destruction of the natural world and the poisoning of the populace, but a Josephine County …

Trying murderers alleged terrorists in civilian courts sends a message to the rest of the world that America won't sacrifice its core values in the fight against terrorism.

Popular control over decisions that affect people's freedom and well-being is becoming increasingly weaker.

“Democracy has been meant to remove the artificial constraints, poverty is the huge artificial constraint on human thought and action,” says author Marilynne Robinson.

Neoliberalism is the antithesis of real democracy because it feeds on inequality; it feeds on privilege, it feeds on massive divisiveness, and it feeds on a theater of cruelty.

Of course there are other obstacles beside rigged vote counts: money, media, lies, infiltration, assassination.