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Report From Thailand

Brian K. Noe · October 21, 2020 ·

Tyrell Haberkorn sums up the situation this week in Thailand, where what began as a student movement questioning the role of the monarchy has become a broader struggle for democracy.

In arresting them and others last week, the Thai authorities seemed to hope to end the movement calling for an end to dictatorship and reform of the monarchy by locking its leaders away behind bars. But as the mushrooming protests this past weekend and early this week illustrate, the tactic has failed.

One who is dear to our hearts lives in Bangkok. We pray for her safety during this time of turbulance.

Source: The Fight for Democracy in Thailand | Dissent Magazine

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Democracy, Social Unrest, Southeast Asia, Thailand

The CIA and the United States Senate

Brian K. Noe · March 13, 2014 ·

The folks from the ICFI have some good analysis this morning concerning the very public spat between Senator Feinstein and CIA Director Brennan.

Only the direst of circumstances could have compelled the California Democrat to make a public declaration that the CIA “may well have violated the separation-of-powers principle embodied in the United States Constitution,” and also “the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as Executive Order 12333, which prohibits the CIA from conducting domestic searches or surveillance.”

We seem to be witnessing the complete breakdown of democratic rule.

For all the media publicity devoted to the political infighting between the White House and Congress, or the decisions of the Supreme Court, the real power in America is in the hands of an unaccountable, murderous apparatus of violence, provocation and spying that includes the Pentagon, CIA, NSA, FBI and a dozen other such agencies.

Read More: The CIA, the Senate and the breakdown of American democracy – World Socialist Web Site.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: CIA, Democracy, Government, Spying

Capitalism Threatens Democracy – NYT Op Ed

Brian K. Noe · January 31, 2014 ·

From Thomas Edsall:

Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” described by one French newspaper as a “a political and theoretical bulldozer,” defies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that worsening inequality is an inevitable outcome of free market capitalism. Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, does not stop there. He contends that capitalism’s inherent dynamic propels powerful forces that threaten democratic societies.

Read More: Capitalism vs. Democracy – NYTimes.com.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Books, Capitalism, Democracy, Inequality

The Last Gasp

Brian K. Noe · January 6, 2014 ·

“We increasingly do not remember what it means to be free. And because we do not remember, we do not react with appropriate ferocity when it is revealed that our freedom has been taken from us. The structures of the corporate state must be torn down. Its security apparatus must be destroyed. And those who defend corporate totalitarianism, including the leaders of the two major political parties, fatuous academics, pundits and a bankrupt press, must be driven from the temples of power. Mass street protests and prolonged civil disobedience are our only hope. A failure to rise up—which is what the corporate state is counting upon—will see us enslaved.”

Read More: Chris Hedges: The Last Gasp of American Democracy – Truthdig.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Chris Hedges, Democracy, Freedom, Rebellion, Totalitarianism

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