Author: Ronnie Dugger
Ronnie Dugger, a reporter, writer, and social-structure activist, has written biographies of Lyndon Johnson (Norton, 1973) and Ronald Reagan (McGraw-Hill, 1983), as well as other books and countless articles in the New Yorker, Harper’s, the Nation, the Atlantic, and so on. He was founding editor of the Texas Observer and co-founder of the Alliance for Democracy.
It’s Time for an American Offensive against Theocracy
This is the right historical moment to launch a national offensive against the degeneration of the United States into a theocracy. Pressures to subordinate democratic pluralism to fundamentalist domination have converged into the presidency of George W. Bush. Bush identifies himself as a bornagain Christian and continues to violate the Constitution by ladling out government …
Permitting a War of Aggression
Concerning Iraq, most mainstream American media now stand guilty of failing to raise the issue of aggressive war. On September 20, 2002, George W. Bush told Congress that under his presidency the United States can and will attack nations of his selection even though they are not about to attack us. Since that day the …
Will the People Revolt to Save the Democracy?
Who could imagine the people of a great democracy turning over the right to harass and propagandize themselves on their own public airwaves to a handful of gigantic corporations and the billionaire press lords who control those corporations? But that is what we have done. The media are busily creating a mob-like democracy—feeding a mass …