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Popular liberal pundits are facing significant backlash after commemorating the 9/11 terror attacks by equating the deadly 2001 attacks with the January 6 Capitol Hill riots.

David Brooks stated that while sometimes content has to be removed from social media, he doesn’t trust big tech or government working with big tech behind closed doors to be in charge of this.

A prominent Iranian opposition group expressed outrage over a “disgraceful act against democracy” and “succumbing” to Iranian pressure after the French government decided to ban a rally in support of the current uprising in Iran.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard slammed the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump, claiming the move is “not something that should happen” in the U.S., while warning it may be the “final nail in the coffin of our democracy.”

Indicting Trump over petty allegations in a selective prosecution will destroy public faith in the rule of law and voters’ trust in democracy.

City Journal reported on Thursday that surrogates for the Chinese government are allegedly pressuring the city of San Francisco to remove the Tiananmen Square memorial in Portsmouth Square Park, which is due to undergo renovations in the near future.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Thursday, commemorating the 70th anniversary of his country’s alliance with America.

The unrest in Israel is a “revolt” by “elites who want to maintain their control over the country,” according to conservative American-Israeli columnist Caroline Glick who lauded the “tactical retreat” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he declared pausing the judicial reform legislation to allow for negotiation amid large public protests.

The human rights organization Freedom House documented the smallest decline in number of countries becoming more authoritarian in 17 years in its 2023 report, a sign to be “optimistic” that a “turning point” has arrived in global liberty, report co-author Yana Gorokhovskaia told Breitbart News.

Republicans are in the midst of waging a “fascist war” against freedom and democracy, according to a recent Salon piece that criticizes the use of the term “culture wars” to mask the supposedly true intentions of the “evil forces” on the right.

The 50th edition of the annual global survey by Freedom House found freedom declining again worldwide for the 17th year in a row, driven by events such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, coups, and attacks on “democratic institutions.”

Nigeria’s Catholic bishops have warned that the nation could plunge into “an avoidable crisis” if trust in the electoral process is not restored after this week’s dubious election.

Warning of a “major threat to democracy,” Republican Reps. Mike Waltz (R-FL) and Jim Banks (R-IN) are demanding “transparency” regarding the effects of the Department of Defense’s “wokeness” — which they blame for undermining the military’s apolitical character and harming recruitment, which is at a “historic” low.

Cancel culture is both “good for democracy” and a “way for a new generation of people to practice free speech,” according to a recent Rolling Stone piece celebrating the ostracization of those “guilty” of holding controversial positions, while assuring the practice is “here to stay.”

The British people are more united on immigration being “too high” than on any other issue, polls suggest – but their political class are continuing to give them more and more of it. 

President Joe Biden alleged in his annual State of the Union speech on Tuesday that “democracies have become stronger” — and authoritarian states “weaker, not stronger” — in the two years since he took office.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Attorney General Bill Barr stated that “the main danger to our democracy, frankly, is the sort of radical progressive movement” and that free public discourse is under attack in a way that

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler Texas has blasted the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) as an unelected power with a “Godless” agenda.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday jumped into President Joe Biden’s classified document scandal by pointing to the difference in how Biden and former President Donald Trump were treated as proof that “justice, fairness, and the rule of law are worthless in U.S. politics.”

A campaign to restore Conservative (Tory) Party democracy including a top donor and former Cabinet minister has been launched following the coup that installed tax-hiking Rishi Sunak as premier without consulting members.

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) issued a report on Wednesday that found democracy in retreat around the world, with twice as many nations moving toward authoritarianism as those which sought to become more democratic.

To the left, “democracy” means that the left, and only the left, is allowed to win. Anything else is an attack on democracy.

2021 elections in the German capital of Berlin have been ruled invalid by the city’s constitutional court on Wednesday, with the city now legally required to re-run the poll within the next 90 days.

Chinese state media portrayed Monday’s meeting between dictator Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, as an unreserved triumph for Xi.

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama administration official Van Jones stated that Democrats failed to see how much inflation mattered for working-class voters and pointed out that people do have to deal with inflation

Republican officials slammed President Joe Biden after he warned that “democracy itself” is at stake if the GOP takes power in the midterm elections, as he argued the “very soul of America itself” was in danger, and accused “extreme MAGA Republicans” of attempting to “suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself.”

While Joe Biden specifically mentioned the attack on Paul Pelosi, the January 6 riots on Capitol Hill, and harassment of public voting officials, he did not outline examples of political violence from leftists.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to reporting from The Intercept on federal agencies working with tech platforms to suppress online speech by stating that, for all the Biden administration’s talk about

President Joe Biden uttered the word “democracy” 37 times in a 20-minute speech on Wednesday that seemed to be his final pitch to American voters to vote for Democrats in next week’s midterm elections. 

The president again tried to connect the Pelosi attack to January 6th, when Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill to protest the 2020 presidential election.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senior Biden Adviser for Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms stated that she “can’t speak to” whether it was wrong for Democrats to support candidates in Republican primaries that the White House says are

Republican use of “radicalism and racism” is not “merely responding to its base, but [the GOP] has actually created it,” states a recent piece in the Nation that laments the need to “care about miserable white people” simply due to their “disproportionate political power.”

By forcing Boris Johnson out of the race for Tory leader and imposing Rishi Sunak, explicitly rejected by the party grassroots mere weeks ago, the parliamentary elite showcased their utter contempt for regular conservatives more starkly than ever. 

Grassroots members and supporters of the Conservative Party have been put back in their place by the party’s parliamentary elite, with Liz Truss ousted and an establishment premier likely to replace her.

A senior Chinese diplomat took part in an attack on Hong Kong protesters int he UK, a member of parliament has claimed under privilege.

Footage of a pro-Hong Kong protester being dragged into a Chinese consulate by masked men and beaten up has emerged online