Exclusive: Tea Partiers have convinced millions of Americans that they are standing with the Constitution’s Framers in a common disdain for a strong, activist federal government. That is false history but it is undergirding the expected Republican congressional victories on Tuesday, writes Robert Parry.
Category: Constitution
Big Media Has Betrayed the People
Powerful Lobbies v. Public Interest
Citizenfour’s Escape to Freedom in Russia
Neocon Sabotage of Iran-Nuke Deal
James Risen’s Painful Truths
The War Responsibility of Congress
An Imperial Death Grip on Democracy
A Murder Mystery at Guantanamo Bay
The Lost Hope of Democracy
Western nations are fond of using “democracy promotion” as a justification for interfering in other countries, including overthrowing elected leaders (as in Ukraine). But Western democracies themselves often fall short of democratic values, as John Chuckman explains.