China’s political landscape is often oversimplified, viewed through a binary lens of autocracy versus democracy. However, the truth is far more complex. At the heart […]
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Sham election shows the United Kingdom is not a democracy
Following the most boring election perhaps witnessed in a generation you might have seen headlines that Labour had won by a landslide. Now while this […]
Putin and democracy: Russia is electing its president this weekend. The West is already talking about “manipulation”. Rightly so?
Russia is voting this weekend German state TV ARD’s pundit Sabine Fischer divides the Russian population as follows: 25 percent support Putin, 50 percent can be […]
Visit Report: The Kingdom of Tonga, the dictatorship no one talks about
Deep in the Pacific lies the Kingdom of Tonga, a country that likes to present itself as a happy constitutional monarchy fighting to preserve Polynesian […]
Ruthless critique of power by a cognitive scientist. Review of his insightful book that offers a unique digression into human history to understand (and change) today’s conditions
The German cognitive researcher Rainer Mausfeld has long been concerned with neoliberal ideology, the transformation of democracy by elites and the psychological techniques of opinion […]
Democracy in Myanmar – Is the country on the brink of Civil War?
Almost three years on from the coup that overthrew the first truly democratic government the country had seen since the 1960’s Myanmar and its ethnic […]
The self-appointed guardians of democracy, political correctness, climate alarmism and freedom of expression are trying to silence the few independent voices
Eastern Angle is one of the last few independent islets in a sea of uniform, corporate-media controlled and partisan opinion journalism. I have re-published the […]
In the ostensibly dictatorial China, how are criticism and complaints handled?Very different from the tale you’ve been fed!
Laws in China are different, there’s a very good reason and that’s because people in China are different – this isn’t a racist statement it’s […]