During the brutality of WWI, ‘for the peace of the world’ the American President Wilson established fourteen conditions at the beginning of 1918 which included absolute freedom, democracy and self-determination for national minorities, including Kurds. ..…
The Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump: A Threat to American Democracy and an Agent of Chaos in the World? ..…
Organized labor was once the backbone of American democracy. Decades of neoliberalism have rendered American left wary of welfare benefits for all, not just the poor. ..…
While containing the ghosts of the American past, the American Empire is clearly a very different kind of entity than the American Republic was—starting with the fact that the vast majority of its inhabitants aren’t Americans. Ancient American ideas about..…
Her classical robe and the design’s style evoke antiquity and the nation’s origins as a republic. Liberty is a central American value. The Declaration of Independence proclaims it as an ‘unalienable right,’ and the Constitution explains that it was ordained and established to secure..…
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, Democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. ... This is Democracy Now! We’ll be back with him in a minute. . [music break] . ..…
American foreign policy in South Asia has hurt human rights and democracy in the region . ..…
What we have discovered is that this area, known to our allies Kurds as Rojava, was being developed in the words of Kurdistan Workers Party and Abdullah Ocalan.. ..…
Elder Cook referenced Magna Carta, calling it “profound in terms of its influence on the laws of historical British Commonwealth countries, as well as the American Constitution.” . ..…