Democracy

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.

Only a new form of reverse dominance can free us from oligarchic domination, and make us genuinely free.

Bob Herbert tells the stories of the brave, hard-working men and women he met who have been battered by the economic downturn.

The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center is going on its 28th year as a community gathering space in San Antonio, Texas.

Noam Chomsky discusses education and indoctrination, the 1960s, the Powell memorandum, democracy, the creation of ISIS, the media and the way “capitalism” actually works in the United States.

Now that the US has been exposed, it needs to be removed.

Assistant professor Eli Friedman from Cornell University says working-class and union participation has increased in subsequent occupations.