Democracy in Florida (US): prevent the other guys from voting.

The talking pig goes political, seven years before "Animal Farm".

The inside story of the death of US democracy.

Sobering stuff from Jan Techau - particularly on the threat of political unrest.

Long but fascinating: the truth about GW Bush's National Guard service.

With groovy graphs.

#fb US election campaigns: too long, too costly, too exploitable by foreigners.

Tanya throws down the gauntlet.

Republicans part company with reality

"The debate over American decline is missing the point. All this talk about projecting U.S. power abroad means nothing if we can't fix our severe problems at home."

How the Supreme Court ended democracy in America in 2010. (I summarise.)

Written a month ago (a geological era in internet time) but, after last four weeks of Republican self-destruction, looks more rather than less relevant!

I wonder if this is replicable elsewhere? Probably too expensive for any campaign not in the US...

This is crazy: Bryza excellent choice, vetoed for no good reason.

No comment necessary.

Perhaps this all sounds fantastical, absurd, and more than a little nuts. We couldn’t agree more. That’s one of the reasons we love conspiracy theories — the more awesomely insane, the better.

I do hope he does well in Iowa.

1. The USA is already a functional oligarchy. 2. It's impossible to be elected to high office without so much money that anyone in high office is, by definition, part of the 0.1% 3. Public austerity is a great cover for the expropriation of wealth by the rich 4. Starving poor people with guns and nothing to lose scare the rich 5. Worse, the p…

There is no formal legal means in Texas to confess to a crime for which someone else has been convicted. "I guess you can contact whatever law enforcement agency handled the case," says Lubbock District Attorney Matt Powell. That, of course, is precisely what Johnson did when he copied his petition to the district attorney in 1995. "…

"to make the case that Amazon is anti-union barely approaches relevance. Most companies are anti-union, that's not important right now. What made Amazon unique was the way in which it was."

How to make me feel old: "I wasn’t even a year old when Bill Clinton became the 42nd President of the United States, and I was nine when he left office."

A Conservative reflects.

On the destruction of the #OWS library. Later reports are that some (but far from all) books were saved.

- especially democratisation.