Democracy

A few months ago, India's Aam Aadmi Party was a curiosity; now, it's a call for pro-democracy movements elsewhere to step up their game.

Greg Palast: Far more insidious than Chris Christie playing traffic warden is the story of his secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires - and the legality of campaign …

Rob Lorei speaks with Henry A Giroux, columnist for Truthout.org and author who says the state of US today has turned into an authoritarian one.

The government has since banned public gatherings of 10 or more people.

Henry Giroux: Cultivating the radical imagination, civic education and critical modes of literacy are central to producing an informed citizenry, but even more so to constituting any viable notion …

Workers' self-directed enterprises (WSDEs) are a response to capitalism's failure to deliver economic prosperity and socialisms' failure to deliver economic democracy.

John Pilger: "Imagine if the lies of governments had been properly challenged and exposed as they secretly prepared to invade Iraq - perhaps a million people would be alive …

Noam Chomsky: Concern for the common good should impel us to find ways to cultivate human development in its richest diversity.

The moment a popular movement arises that truly confronts our corporate masters, our venal system of total surveillance will be thrust into overdrive.

Nelson Mandela was forever playing new roles; Danny Schechter talks to Truthout about them and his new book, “Madiba A to Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela.”