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The Iroquois Confederacy: Democracy Before Democracy Before the United States declared independence, a sophisticated governance system flourished in North America’s forests. Known as the Iroquois Confederacy, or the Haudenosaunee, this alliance of six nations—the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and later the Tuscarora—crafted a model of unity and democracy that influenced the foundations of American …
On January 20, 2025, as the Trump administration retook the reins of the United States, many Americans watched with apprehension. All during the election campaign, the rhetoric shifted toward division and exclusion. Policies targeting immigrants, aggressive tariffs, and public statements about reclaiming territories like the Panama Canal or purchasing Greenland revealed a troubling trend. These …
it isn’t a good situation, but at least you guys got to “own the libs.” Kim Von Berg sSnteodopr0 J1aA19l nu2f2 a2 rmhu8a58M23ua5t104clc679u:hyl1u9 · Andrew Coyne, a highly respected Canadian columnist with the Globe and Mail, pulls no punches on the incoming US administration: “Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, …
by ARNIE ALPERT, InDepthNH.orgNovember 21, 2024 By Arnie Alpert, Active with the Activists Arnie Alpert spent decades as a community organizer/educator in NH movements for social justice and peace. Officially retired since 2020, he keeps his hands (and feet) in the activist world while writing about past and present social movements. CONCORD—The sky was already …
https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-didn-t-vote-donald-154051128.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall By now, every pundit in America has their own 2024 election take, mostly confirming their prior opinions. Every Republican has a take, too, which is that Americans voted resoundingly for — well, for whatever policy that Republican cares about, from opposition to transgender rights to support for prayer in schools. And of course, progressives, …
When moderator Margaret Brennan noted during last night’s vice presidential debate that Republican nominee J.D. Vance had, once again, lied about the legal status of migrants in Springfield, Ohio, Vance retorted: “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check!” As scholar of propaganda Pekka Kallioniemi noted, this was “[t]he epitome of post-truth politics.” …