Epstein Secrets

ed by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, and Trump strategist Steve Bannon — abo

s about a global "democratic recession." In maps charting freedom in the world, the various shades of authoritarianism had been spreading ominously. Freedom House has recorded an annual decline in global freedom for 15 years in a row, and less than 20 percent of the global population now lives in a country cl

iveliness and diversity during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. All did not sing out of the same hymnal

and persecution. They are frequent- ly jailed on trumped-up charges of defamation, tax fraud, or drug trafficking, among others. 12 EFTA00804736 Freedom House 2. Marginalizing the opposition: As noted above, authoritarian leaders use their media power to paint critics as knaves or buffoons. Especially t

took a few drunken steps in that direction under Boris Yeltsin. But at the end of 1999 he resigned and

in countries that will hold free and fair elections this year, democracy's global advance has come to a halt, and may even have gone into reverse. Freedom House reckons that 2013 was the eighth consecutive year in which global freedom declined, and that its forward march peaked around the beginning of the c