2014
 ( 2010s: )  2014   | |
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 The burnt out Euromaidan in Kiev, Feb. 20, 2014. |
2014 saw the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Peer-reviewed Research into Oligarchy
In the fall of 2014, the academic journal Perspectives on Politics published Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, the first academic study of whether the US was a de facto democracy - i.e. whether the will of the people influenced whether legislation got enacted.[1] It began by asking "Who governs? Who really rules? To what extent is the broad body of U.S. citizens sovereign, semi-sovereign, or largely powerless?" and concluded that "Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts."[2] This was not followed up on by commercially-controlled media and as of December 2017, it was still the only paper on this topic.[3]
Events
New Groups
| Group | Image | Date | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre for the Response to Radicalisation and Terrorism |  | 2014 - Present | ||
| Macro Advisory Partners |  | 2014 - Present | Commercial | |
| Mayday Rescue Foundation | | 2014 - Present | ||
| South Front | .jpg){kind=logo} | 2014 - Present | Analytical project | |
| Jews for justice for Germans |  | July 2014 - Present | Pressure group | A deliberately tongue-in-cheek attention-grabbing name for a group that understands the gross injustices that Germany and Germans have been subjected to at the hands of Jewish-dominated interests for the greater part of the 20th century and especially over their alleged responsibility for both world wars and the horrors accompanying them. |
| Moonscape Ventures |  | 19 August 2014 - Present | ||
| Counter Extremism Project |  | 22 September 2014 - Present |
New Websites
| Event | Image | Date | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Intercept |  | 2014 - Present | https://theintercept.com/ | |
| Linguistic Determinism |  | 2014 - Present | http://linguistic-determinism-art-language.blogspot.co.uk/ | |
| Searx |  | 2014 - Present | https://searx.me | An open source decentralised search engine |
| Bellingcat |  | 2014 - Present | https://bellingcat.com | Self described as a "Site for citizen investigations of current events using open source information". Begun by Eliot Higgins and "8 volunteers" and allegedly funded by a Kickstarter campaign. |
| StopFake |  | 2 March 2014 - Present | https://www.stopfake.org | Spooky website to counter "Russian propaganda" backed by the Integrity Initiative. |
| Vera Graziadei blog |  | June 2014 - Present | http://veragraziadei.wordpress.com/ | Blog of Vera Graziadei |
| Russia Insider |  | September 2014 - Present | https://russia-insider.com/ | |
| Skeptical about skeptics | | 3 October 2014 - Present | http://www.skepticalaboutskeptics.org/ | A site dedicated to countering dogmatic, ill informed attacks leveled by self-styled skeptics on pioneering scientific research and researchers |
==Groups that were Wound Up==
Quotations
- ↑ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48487.htm
- ↑ https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B/S1537592714001595a.pdf/testing_theories_of_american_politics_elites_interest_groups_and_average_citizens.pdf
- ↑ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48487.htm
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