Fact or Fiction: Republic or Democracy?
By B. Michael Long Fact is often stranger than fiction. When diving into the complex and often convoluted relationship between the de facto Democratic corporate fiction known as the UNITED…
Democracy
“Trump World!!!!”
Four more years of Donald J. Trump will mean the end of Democracy and the beginning of the New World Order and that means it will be tyranny for any…
Giant Turkish anti-coup rally packs Istanbul waterfront area
By CINAR KIPER and ELENA BECATOROS A massive flag-waving crowd, the size of which some Turkish media said had never been seen before, gathered in Istanbul Sunday for a giant…
Turkey quashes coup; Erdogan vows ‘heavy price’ for plotters
By SUZAN FRASER and DOMINIQUE SOGUEL Pouring out into the streets, forces loyal to Turkey’s president quashed a coup attempt in a night and day of explosions, air battles and…
Nobel Peace Prize boosts struggling Tunisian democracy
By PAUL SCHEMM, BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and KARL RITTER It was the fall of 2013 and Tunisia’s newfound democracy was in grave danger. The assassination of a left-wing politician had…
Thailand’s army-backed council rejects charter, delays polls
By GRANT PECK and HRVOJE HRANJSKI Thailand’s military-backed legislature on Sunday rejected an unpopular draft of a new constitution, delaying a return to democracy following a coup last year. The…
Thousands of Hong Kongers march for democracy
Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have marched through Hong Kong’s streets in the first major rally since mass protests last year. Chanting “No fake universal suffrage. I want genuine universal suffrage,”…
Taiwan, Hong Kong a challenge for China’s Xi
By RALPH JENNINGS and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN In this Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014 photo, police officers throw a pro-democracy protester on the main road outside government headquarters in Hong Kong as…