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In Pictures: How The World Is Reacting To Donald Trump's Victory
Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States.
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The Archdruid Report: Reflections on a Democracy in Crisis
Well, it’s finally over, and I think it’s fair to say I called it. As I predicted back in January of this year, working class Americans—fed up with being treated by the Democratic Party as the one American minority that it’s okay to hate—delivered a stinging rebuke to the politics of business as usual… By John Michael Greer.
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How Google and Facebook Can Reshape Elections
As their reach has grown, social networks have become true political players: They can mobilize voters and bombard specific users with a candidate’s content. Next year’s German federal election will likely be the country’s first data-driven campaign, and some lawmakers are worried. By Marcel Rosenbach.
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The Election: Of Hate, Grief, and a New Story
“For Trump supporters, the initial celebration will collide with gritty reality when Trump proves as unable or unwilling as his predecessors to challenge the entrenched systems that continually degrade their lives: global finance capital, the deep state, and their programming ideologies.” By Charles Eisenstein.
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Expendable America
All of us who are familiar with rural areas and former industrial towns in this country know the impoverishment and hopelessness of many men and women who live there. Understandably, they are angry. These unfortunates, who’ve been cheated and swindled by bosses, mortgage banks, and both political parties, have put all their hopes in a billionaire who has a long record of not paying taxes, cheating his workers and contractors out of their pay, and seemingly using his own “charitable” foundation as a slush fund. They voted for a buffoon who doesn’t care whether they live or die. By Charles Simic.
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Pat McCrory Lost the North Carolina Governorship. Now He’s Trying to Steal It
North Carolina Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, champion of the country’s most notorious anti-LGBTQ law, lost his bid for re-election on Nov. 8—at last count, by 7,448 votes. Yet nearly two weeks later, McCrory still refuses to concede. Instead… By Mark Joseph Stern.
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Despotism
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Steve Bannon’s Deep, Weird Adoration of Sarah Palin
Before he propelled Donald Trump into the White House, Bannon championed another right-wing diehard who was ready to burn it all down. By Betsy Woodruff.
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Why Socrates Hated Democracy
We’re used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, Socrates, had deep suspicions of it.
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Investigative Reporter Greg Palast: GOP Stole 2016 Election Using Voter Suppression, Purging Ploys
“It was stolen in Florida, it was stolen in Arizona, it was stolen in North Carolina, Pennsylvania. Possibly Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan,” Palast told Truthdig. (Nov. 16, 2016)
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The End of the Anglo-American Order
For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage? By Ian Buruma. (Nov. 29, 2016)
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Hostile Takeover
“The election campaign was the struggle for control of corporate management, Hillary Clinton seeking to fend off a hostile takeover by Donald Trump, the lady and the lout both standing four square and true blue for the freedom of money, steadfast and vigilant against the freedoms of movement and thought.” By Lewis Lapham.
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[1.85% of] Electors demand intelligence briefing before Electoral College vote
The request represents the latest effort by Democratic electors to look to the Electoral College as a possible bulwark against a Trump presidency. By Kyle Cheney and Gabriel Debenedetti,
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CIA meddled in ‘hundreds’ of elections
US government “propagandists” push for a foreign policy of “intervening around the world,” former presidential candidate and founder of the Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Dr. Ron Paul, told RT in a wide-ranging interview that also touched on Syria. “I think they’re just agitating, because they lost the election. They’re throwing out accusations and they have no proof,” the former Republican congressman for Texas said.
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A brief history of the times the US meddled in others’ elections
So, Americans are outraged that Russia may have attempted to interfere in US elections. From Italy to Guatemala, Indonesia to Afghanistan, people ask “So, how does it feel?” By T.J. Raphael.
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Democracy Is Dying as Technocrats Watch
Assaults on democracy are working because our current political elites have no idea how to defend it. By William Easterly.
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The horrors of 2016 could have been stopped – with better defenses
Donald Trump and other monsters of this new era were always there. They just triumphed because centrists blocked those who could keep a lid on them. By Sam Kriss.
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Thirty things you didn't know about the EU referendum
A review of five of the best EU referendum books offers up some surprising insights into the campaigns and landmark vote. By Andrew Sparrow.
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2016: The nation’s cartoonists on the year in politics
Every month political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this year's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
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Pictures From Women’s Marches Around the World
Crowds in hundreds of cities around the world gathered Saturday in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington.
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