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Martin Schram: How a Watergate punishment might have averted our Jan. 6 hell

On June 17, Americans found ourselves at the convergence of two crises of shattering assaults on our democracy.

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2022

Hong Kong lawyers are the next target of Xi’s national security law

Veteran human rights lawyer Michael Vidler decided it was too dangerous to work in Hong Kong the moment a judge designated to handle national security law cases implied offering legal support to democracy activists could be a crime.

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2022

The Digital Republic by Jamie Susskind review – why the west was no match for the tech giants

The power of tech corporations is a threat to democracy, yet governments are reluctant to take action. This refreshing book picks apart the ideology that holds them back

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2022

Pleas for help as Myanmar awaits high-profile executions

The wife of pro-democracy figure Kyaw Min Yu, sentenced to be executed on the orders of Myanmar's ruling generals, says that if her husband dies he will take with him the beliefs he has carried throughout a life spent fighting dictatorship.

Reuters · Jun 18, 2022

US removes relative of Venezuela’s Maduro from sanctions list

Carlos Erik Malpica Flores, an ex-national treasurer, was put on blacklist in 2017 on charges of undermining democracy.

Al Jazeera · Jun 17, 2022

Indyref2 'good news for democracy everywhere', former Catalan president says

A SECOND Scottish independence referendum is “good news for democracy around the world”, a former president of Catalonia has said in a…

The National (Scotland) · Jun 17, 2022

Trump weighs another run as GOP rivals eye own campaigns

Former President Donald Trump’s desperate attempts to remain in power by challenging American democracy have been thrown back into the spotlight by the Jan. 6 committee, with harrowing footage and searing testimony from his closest aides and family

The Independent UK · Jun 17, 2022

Russian warship violated Danish territorial waters in Baltic -Danish military

A Russian warship early on Friday twice violated Danish territorial waters north of the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm where a democracy festival attended by senior lawmakers and business people was taking place, the Danish Armed Forces said.

Reuters · Jun 17, 2022

The January 6 hearings aren’t acknowledging the elephant in the room

The attack on the US Capitol wasn’t the isolated doing of Trump and a few loyalists. Nearly the entire Republican party is now united behind it – and the attack on democracy hasn’t ended

The Guardian - US · Jun 17, 2022

Andrew Olle lecture: Without stronger press freedoms and protections for public-interest journalism, democracy is at risk

Australians will only rely upon the mainstream media as an essential part of our civic and democratic life if they can trust we are able to expose the spin and lies and misinformation, and deliver the facts and truth, writes Ita Buttrose.

ABC News · Jun 17, 2022