Under the current president of the United States, that country is unlike anything its name suggests. The absolute separation of minds along party lines, the racial bubbles and prejudices, the perception of fact and fiction, and the hypocrisy surrounding religious experience makes it difficult to find anything in common that binds Americans together. How bad is it really, and what can we expect from the future?
Source: ANP
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, 5.7% of the world's population in 2019, lived in countries that described as 'full democracies'. In 2008 this was still 14.4%. This fact should worry all of us deeply. How is this possible, and what does it say about us as citizens and about our politicians? Have we made the right electoral choices and do our politicians sufficiently protect us against lack of freedom, disorder and arbitrariness? In this article, I examine what forces threaten us and what opens the door to that which we escaped 75 years ago.
Adam Zylgis (www.adamzylgys.com)
What to do, if time and again, an organization looks away whilst playing a facilitating role in actions that profoundly affects the lives of young people. No, this is not about Facebook, but about the Catholic Church. It is time that the organization which knowingly and for decades looked away from abuse by its priests and protected those perpetrators, obstructed justice and withheld justice to the victims is being held accountable for its actions and omissions in this matter. This article investigates whether legal options are available.