The abuse of executive powers has become so commonplace as to be accepted as the norm. We experience it in organizations public and private – ranging from the Oval Office to elite universities to charitable NGOs and foundations, and of course across the business world where the MBA mindset and CEO hubris reign. In this […]
Posts Tagged ‘autocracy’
Yellow Vest Win: Proving that Western Liberal Democracy is the same old autocracy
June 27, 2022 Source by Ramin Mazaheri If we say that the Yellow Vests are not socialist revolutionaries even latently, then what are they protesting about? To put it the most simply: they are protesting the end of European Social Democracy, with the limited protections it provided. (This is the seventeenth chapter in a new […]
Understanding The Basics Of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, And Capitalism
Above Photo: Nathaniel St. Clair. Democracy exists if and when a community organizes its self-governance around the full participation, on an equal basis, of all the members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a community organizes (or allows) its governance by an individual or subgroup of that community, a ruler. Universal suffrage is […]
#JusticeForKurds: RT calls for UN investigation into Turkey’s killing of Kurdish civilians
RT has launched a petition calling for a UNHRC-led investigation into claims of alleged mass killing of Kurdish civilians. It is said to have been committed by the Turkish military during Ankara’s crackdown on Kurds in the country’s southeast. An RT crew visited Cizre in Turkey’s Sirnak province following reports of a brutal military crackdown […]