Not Happy, John! Defending Our Democracy
Penguin, $24.95 pb. 446 pp
Axis of Deceit
Black Inc, $29.95 pb, 200 pp
A Cancer in Our Polity
Governments lie, as the veteran US journalist I.F. Stone used to remind us. Worse than that, some of them now defy with impunity the clearly stated wishes of the majority – and international agreements, too. We seem to have entered an era in which the meaning of democracy is being alarmingly redefined. Let us hope it is merely a passing phase.
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Not Happy, John! Defending Our Democracy
by Margo Kingston
Penguin, $24.95 pb. 446 pp
Axis of Deceit
by Andrew Wilkie
Black Inc, $29.95 pb, 200 pp
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