Only an alternative based on a drastically changed US foreign policy, bound to some type of global framework for mutual benefits amongst all people, would prevent the current destabilization from becoming yet a new global order based in the rule of the many by the few.
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A model of democracy?
By RENAN ORTIZ
A model of democracy?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective The upcoming US presidential election provides a perfect example for the idiom “a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea.” US citizens would not have much choice come November. They would have to choose between “the two most unpopular presidential candidates in polling dating back more than 30…
When elections border on the absurd
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Philippine elections have always been a sideshow: with politicians acting like clowns with their dancing, singing, and trying hard to be funny or to identify themselves with the common people with their antics. And of course, there is the usual declaration of love for the people and the issuance of…
Insidious Anti-Labor Bias Hurts Workers
By Joel Connelly The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Posted by Bulatlat.com In what I hope was an early-morning miscue, the weekend KPLU newsreader recently told listeners that “labor bosses” were gathering in Wenatchee for the Washington State Labor Council’s annual convention. Defining terminology, on the airwaves and deftly inserted in mainstream media, has been one of the…