Yesterday, Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, addressed Congress and told legislators to get their act together on climate change. ‘I want you to listen to the scientists, and I want you to unite behind the science, and then I want you to take real action,’ she said. Last year, after the Parkland massacre,…
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It’s Not Fake News, It’s Only Biased
President Trump’s bashing of media outlets, such as CNN, paints a false picture. Of course, media stations, save Fox, have responded to the president’s rhetorical assault with the intensity of a leopard stalking its prey, seemingly intent on holding him to account. CNN, MSNBC, or even Fox are not “fake,” rather the corporate-controlled media, also…
Abuses of State Power
Numerous polls conducted by the Pew Research Center show the United States receiving low marks for international trust, even among allies, especially when the U.S. bypasses multilateral institutions (Bortin, 2007, p. A12; Stanley-Becker, I & Clement, S 2017). Many of the complaints and much of the dissatisfaction with American policy and use of power are…
The Dangers of Unrestrained Power
Unrestrained power is always potentially very dangerous. Power facilitates greed and together they multiply exponentially; and the results of greed can produce more power, illegitimate as it may be. In this series of articles, I will discuss the nature of power and the concept of legitimacy, explaining the distinction between the two areas in relation…