The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 23, Number 2.
Free Inquiry readers may pause to read the “Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles” on the inside cover of the magazine. To a secular humanist, these principles seem so logical, so right, so crucial. Yet, there is one archetypal political philosophy that is anathema to almost all of these principles. It is fascism. And fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as (...)
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Fascism Anyone?
25 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Civilization, genocide style
19 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
“I think it would be a good idea” - Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought about Western civilization by: Gabriele Zamparini on: 19th Nov, 05
Ann Clwyd is the Prime Minister Blair’s Human Rights Envoy in Iraq. On November 15th, 2005, interviewed by Jeremy Paxman at BBC 2 Newsnight, she said:
“We have been trying to train the Iraqis in human rights. We’ve set up conferences for the Iraqis on human rights with all the NGOs. We’ve been trying our very best to get human rights into the (...) -
Anti-Terror Measure Rejected in Britain. Parliament Vote Deals Major Setback to Blair
13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
LONDON - The House of Commons on Wednesday soundly defeated an anti-terrorism measure championed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, dealing him one of the most significant political setbacks of his eight years in office.
The lower house of Parliament voted 322 to 291 against a proposal to allow suspects in terrorism cases to be held for as many as 90 days without charge, up from the current 14. It was Blair’s first loss in a major vote in that house since (...) -
All the King’s Media
13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby William Greider
Amid the smoke and stench of burning careers, Washington feels a bit like the last days of the ancien régime. As the world’s finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. Let the perp walks begin. Whether the public feels reassured is another matter.
George W. Bush’s plight leads me to thoughts of Louis XV and his royal court in the (...) -
Paranoia and the USA Patriot Act as used by Bushco
9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentI’ll just bet J. Edgar Hoover would be so envious with all of this high tech ability at our leader’s finger tips!! To snoop in anyone’s life THEY (Big Brother) desires.
Bush Leagues
White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 ’political enemies’
By DOUG THOMPSON
Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with (...) -
UNIFORMS are MIND CONTROL TRAINING - ALL ORGANIZATION OF VIOLENCE HAVE THEM
4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 comments** DEMOCRACY update 3 - Systematic Imprinting Power Role Players Establishes the SLAVES
So what are uniforms? Why do we all dress a certain way or color or pattern combination?
It is a visual mesage. Just like the messages the corporation send when you look into a slum neighborhood, drive by two 12 year old girls prostituting themselves for drug money Thursday, a school night, or like the message that you get when you watch TV and see a person talking about ALL the FEAR and what HIS (...) -
We all need to ACT and Live Democracy for IT TO HAPPEN!!
4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 comments** D E M O C R A C Y Information Update 2 **
People SAY they want Democracy - To Live in a Greater State of Free Expression. For this is the basis of democracy and that is to allow expression to be open and sharable, thus promoting a greater level of interaction and communication, hopefully with the outcome of ending up in a better place for all then when we started.
But even today we do not even have a shade of TRUE democracy anywhere for we were ALL raised and brought up in (...) -
Drifting towards a Police State
4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsby Mike Whitney
“Those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends” Former Attorney General, John Ashcroft
Did you know that under the terms of the new Patriot Act prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in cases where “defendants gave financial support to umbrella (...) -
The American Political Tradition
26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
by Eric Foner
Undoubtedly the most celebrated and influential account of American life by a foreign observer is Democracy in America, written by Alexis de Tocqueville after his visit to the United States in the 1830s. As a French aristocrat, Tocqueville rather disliked democracy, but he understood that it had become central to Americans’ understanding of themselves. Democracy, he recognized, was more than simply the right to vote; it was a habit of the heart, a deeply rooted set of (...) -
Empire building has led to the end of our own democracy
25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsSoup Of The Evening, Beautiful Soup by Michael Doliner
In the long run, the existence of this intensely elitist society in the ancient Near East was of enormous importance to the history of Western civilization. As late as 1700, the prevailing European social system was still one in which vast power, the greater part of landed wealth, and the prime control of political life belonged to the hereditary landed aristocracy. Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages
(Swans (...)