Mark Zuckerberg’s recent meeting with Trump: Why so secretive?

"The framing of King’s question—that Zuckerberg, not Trump, was the one at the dinner being lobbied—was notable to Financial Times reporter Kadhim Shubber. 'No better example of Facebook’s power than Zuckerberg being asked here whether Trump lobbied him, rather than whether he lobbied Trump,' Shubber tweeted," writes Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams staff writer (Dec. 4th, 2019)

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Why Tyranny can be the Inevitable Outcome of Democracy

"Plato, one of the earliest thinkers and writers about democracy, predicted that letting people govern themselves would eventually lead the masses to support the rule of tyrants. When I tell my college-level philosophy students that in about 380 B.C. he asked “does not tyranny spring from democracy,” they’re sometimes surprised, thinking it’s a shocking connection," writes Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology (Nov. 27th, 2019)

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