While President Obama and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney engaged in a nationwide televised presidential debate, the candidate of the Green Party, Jill Stein was arrested for disturbing the traffic when she protested the fact that…
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Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end up being overthrown by tyrants or develop internal rivalries as some families decide to “take the…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/spain-protests-parliament-crisis-942/i916929ee9a228da6b6ab4c63b49be339_00b4cf47.flv] Madrid riot police have cleared Plaza de Neptune of protesters, with about 200 officers securing the surrounding blocks. At least 60 people have been injured and 26 arrested as police used batons and rubber…
Once upon a time, there was a Kingdom of Justice and Light. The kings served there in periods of four years and insisted on being called “Mr. President.” That was true until the year 2000, when the son of a former king was chosen to office by the voice of a single Justice who had been appointed by his father. From that moment onwards, it had become pretty close to a formal kingdom. Yet, they didn’t define themselves as such; they claimed that they were the world’s most powerful country, and prided themselves on their democracy. They weren’t exactly a democracy of the people […]. They were a democracy of corporations. These organizations were recognized by the kingdom as judicial persons, and were those guiding and funding the government’s behavior. Many of these soulless persons were rather innocent, busying themselves in the science of preparation of greasy hamburgers and similarly useless tasks. However, the largest and most powerful among them made money out of war.
[Editor’s note: The Global Times’ original title is modified by The 4th Media.] Hillary Reinforces US-China Mistrust US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive in China today. Some have labeled her latest Asia-Pacific…
This is a good start, but we need more articles like this in the Mainland press, not just HK: West has no reason to be smug. Graeme Maxton says Western leaders who lecture the rest of…
Political meritocracy is the idea that a political system is designed with the aim of selecting political leaders with above average ability to make morally informed political judgments. That is, political meritocracy has two key…
Pakistan wants strong democracy today Pakistan is a Muslim democratic country. It’s been 65 years since the British departed from the Subcontinent after dividing the subcontinent into two independent countries, India and Pakistan, on 14…
Democracies Don’t Start Wars, But Fake Democracies Sure Do! ‘Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded’ Founder James Madison We’ve all heard it said by our teachers…
Introduction One of the most significant political developments in recent US history has been the virtually unchallenged rise of the police state. Despite the vast expansion of the police powers of the Executive Branch of…