By Eric Chenoweth (The Shanker Blog, June 29, 2020) PDF Version Over the past four years, an authoritarian-minded president has posed a continuous challenge to American democracy. With victory in doubt in the 2020 presidential election, he now even refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and openly states he is stacking the [...]
PDF Version The people of Belarus continue to protest the blatant stealing of another election by Alexander Lukashenka and his regime’s harsh repression. As it has done for more than 30 years, the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe (IDEE) stands in solidarity with the people of Belarus and calls on all democratic governments, legislatures [...]
“The main thing is, they’re talking about us.”Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries by Eric Chenoweth (The Shanker Blog, June 29, 2020) (PDF Version) Comparing Trump’s presidency with past fascist regimes, and particularly that of Hitler’s Germany, is generally seen as partisan hyperbole. Past warnings of a Nazi-like leader taking hold in America — like Sinclair [...]
by Eric Chenoweth (The Shanker Blog, November 11, 2019) (PDF Version) A majority of Americans support the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. With each witness’s testimony, they learn the extent of how Trump risked America’s national security and betrayed his oath to the Constitution to extort Ukraine’s new leader for his own political benefit. [...]
by Eric Chenoweth (PDF Version) On the 30th anniversary of the 1989 "velvet revolutions" that resulted in the downfall of communist regimes in the Soviet bloc countries of Central and Eastern Europe, there was little reflection on the most important social and political movement that helped to bring about this transformation of the region. That [...]
by Eric Chenoweth (The Shanker Blog, May 23, 2019) In the manner of Russian propaganda, where everything is true if it supports the leader, Donald Trump has asserted simultaneously that the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller completely exonerated him (“No collusion, no obstruction, game over”) and that the Special Counsel’s investigation was completely illegitimate [...]
by Eric Chenoweth (The Shanker Blog, November 5, 2018) “Which world is ‘natural’? That which existed before or the world of war? Both are natural if both are within the realm of one’s experience.” Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind, 1953 It was a political eternity ago. In 2016, several political commentators (myself included) warned about [...]
by Eric Chenoweth The American Interest (Published on: June 4, 2018) Despite all the diminishment, denial, and deflection, the evidence is mounting that Russian interference may have tipped the 2016 election. In mid-February, the news cycle was saturated with coverage of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians, the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency [...]
IDEE Press Statement Crimean Tatar Leaders Call for Increased Sanctions Against Russia for Illegal Occupation of Crimea and Systematic Repression Washington, D.C. (May 18, 2018): Released political prisoners Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov, leaders of the Crimean Tatar nation who were imprisoned by Russian occupation authorities in Crimea, called for increased sanctions on Russia during [...]
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