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Syrian Revolution : #300DaysLater
2012-01-06 21:16:00 Today Friday January 6th , 2012 marks the 300th Day of the Syrian Revolution in March 2011 , today is the 300th day and the Syrians are still paying huge price for demanding their freedom and their kids freedom, for having a powerful Strong Syria. I have counting but the numbers of the Syrian martyrs have exceeded the 3000 martyrs , endless number of injured and detainees not to mention a spilt in the Syrian army and huge fear from the future. Today the thousands of Syrians took the street again demanding the immediate international intervention especially after the failure of the Arab observers and LAS to stop the daily blood rains in the country. Hama : We will write our history with our blood Idlib : A protest in Darkoush city Homs : Our demand is the heaven Aleppo : A protest in Marea Palmyra : A protest in the ancient city of Palmyra Reef Dimshaq : Demanding international intervention Hama : The people want international intervention In 300 days A city like Homs ...
Engines of Democracy
2012-01-06 07:59:00 Interesting article, continue reading by clicking next at the bottom of the article. It talks of open management and workplace democracy. GE jet engine plant in USA California is managed by one plant manager, with more then 170 employees. They build powerful jet engines to international orders, with
Half-century long struggle against ISA
2012-01-02 16:44:00 The year 2011 will be remembered for the decision to do away with the ISA – a move which vindicates the half-century long struggle against this oppressive law. But we need to be especially vigilant about what kind of laws will eventually replace the ISA. No to detention without trial. Prime Minister Najib Razak?s announcement [Read more]
By: anilnetto.com
Crackdown on uni students: BN?s awful start to New Year
2012-01-01 11:25:00 The high-handed police action action against the university students at Tanjung Malim has handed the BN an awful start to the New Year. With one fell swoop, it has exposed the farce of Najib’s plan to supposedly transform the country into the “world’s best democracy”. A student is lying injured in hospital. Let’s state the [Read more]
By: anilnetto.com
Loss of faith in democracy could make 2012 the most frightening year ever |
2011-12-31 22:26:00 The dawn of a new year is usually a time of hope and ambition, of dreams for the future and thoughts of a better life. But it is a long time since many of us looked forward to the new year with such anxiety, even dread. Here in Britain, many economists believe that by the ...
By: 1913 Intel
Masrena : Our Egypt
2011-12-27 20:37:00 Here is a sincere attempt to move forward and together , Maserna movement or our Egypt is launched to unite Egyptians with their different background. Among the members of Maserna : Wael Ghonim , Wael Khalil,Mohamed Diab, Ziad Aly, Khaled Mansour , Moatez Abdel Fatah and Bara?a Ashraf. I hope that people especially youth join this movement and I pray they fulfill the mission of Maserna. Technorati Tags: Citizen journalism,Egypt,Democracy,Poli-tics,Post Revolution,Wael Ghonim,Wael Khalil,Mohamed Diab,Ziad Aly,Moatez Abdel Fatah
Bali Democracy Forum IV, Demokrasi Adalah Proses yang Tiada Habisnya
2011-12-09 12:55:00 Bali Democracy Forum IV resmi ditutup Menteri Luar Negeri Indonesia, Marty Natalegawa. Forum diskusi antarpemerintah ini menekankan demokrasi merupakan sebuah proses yang tiada habisnya dan harus selalu dibangun.
By: IT and Comm
Occupy Movement Exemplifies Sathya Sai Baba?s Failure As Social Reformer
2011-11-10 02:53:00 In the next days, I shall look at aspects of the Occupy movements, many of whose manifestations show how profoundly Sathya Sai Baba and his international organization have failed. Sathya Sai Baba and his cult always failed to face political and corporate power. They themselves are part of the corrupt system. His successors now fight out power struggles among themselves. The international Sathya Sai Organization ?good works? philosophy plays perfectly into the hands of the power elites, who have nothing against charity. We all like to feel good. Big-name donors to the Sathya Sai cult are legion, especially in India, and from among the Indian diaspora worldwide. Amid untold golden glitter, the late Sathya Sai Baba said that, in his own lifetime, he would save and rule India and then the world Those in the Occupy movements are better educated than ever before, and thus able to use social media such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc., to great advantage. Sathya Sai Baba and his ...
David Korten: Capitalism?s Threat to Democracy, part 2 (video)
2011-10-25 13:00:00 David Korten, author, and co-founder of Yes! magazine shares his views on the importance of building local, community-based economies.
The limits of democracy
2011-10-14 07:04:00 The United States is not a democracy at all: rather, it is a republic. The majority of its voters cannot rule to enslave the minority: democratic decision-making is relegated to mundane matters while the core values are closed to voting. Even if the majority of Americans were to vote tomorrow to amend the Bill of Rights with a clear permission of slavery and remove some of the most obvious protections against it, the Supreme Court would amass circumstantial legislation to overturn the citizens’ decision. And if it did not, then it would no longer be America as we know it. Not incidentally, communists changed the official names of the states they took over: a country with a drastically changed social order is no longer the same. The American values guarded by republicanism are far from universal or self-evident. So far are they from self-evident that a little more than a century ago slavery was rather popular, and only decades ago the blacks were discriminated against and women h...
By: Samson Blinded
Democracy is not about majority
2011-10-07 09:20:00 Democracy is not a problem in itself. Democracy provides for a Jewish state just as it provides for an Arab or a Christian one—a state of hollow symbolism. Arabs can accept hollow Jewish symbolism, but not a real Jewish state. True values can only be forced by a minority upon the majority. As we see in the Bible, ancient Jews were massively idolatrous, yet the few—whether they were righteous kings, prophets, or Maccabean fundamentalists—forced them back into the fold. Democracy seeks a common denominator for the masses. States start around values, but democracy votes the values away like any other restrictions; people vote for the most simple, unrestricted, loose life. Democracy shows the entropy in social systems: eventually, such systems lose any distinguishing characteristics and descend into the morass of value-less homogeneity. This is not the typical homogeneity of a repressive regulatory society, but a uniformity of moral deprivation. Democracy plays a trick on peace-l...
By: Samson Blinded
The Democracy Gap ? Expert Labs
2011-10-06 20:49:00 Via Scoop.it – Green Party Here in Washington, the politically connected (especially on the left) are focused on figuring out the meaning of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It?s the talk of the town ? most operatives are looking on with fascination.Show original Tags: Wall Street, democracy gap, green party <BR/>
By: News for Greens
David Korten: Capitalism?s Threat to Democracy (video)
2011-10-03 19:43:00 Korten, minces no words about the dangers our capitalist system poses to democracy.
Twitter: The Web Equivalent Of Democracy, At Its Best
2011-09-05 11:51:00 ‘Anna Hazare’ was a trending topic on Twitter for more than a week during the anti- corruption movement recently staged in India. Social media has seeped into the various folds of the Indian society and so a medium like ‘Twitter’ has become an important tool for journalist’s, activists, social commentators and politicians! Recent, surveys have revealed that there are more than 65 million active internet users in India and almost half of them are part of one or the other social network. The numbers are big enough to ensure that politicians can no longer ignore this medium and its benefits. For most politicians that is the very reason to be a little wary about the service. But steadily a group of tech-savvy politicians are utilizing this platform to connect with India’s online population. In United States many politicians were seen utilizing Twitter as a part of their campaign during the run-up to the 2012 Presidential elections. Indian politicians need to learn from them...
By: WATblog
Anna Hazare?s Arrest. Dark Days For Indian Democracy
2011-08-16 13:13:00 A longtime Indian acquaintance has just emailed, recording his deep concern at the arrest by the Manmohan Singh government of Anna Hazare, an immensely courageous and peaceful activist calling for an end to rampant government corruption. India's gerontocratic leaders have learnt little about genuine processes of democracy. They learn nothing from the 'Arab spring'. Nor even for her own reasons, last century, for risking all in opposing British Rule. Nor do they learn from the 1848 revolutions in Europe, and what, for the lack of learning lessons, was to culminate in two mammoth conflagrations in the twentieth centuries. Their dangerous power game is like dice thrown in hell. Like Sathya Sai Baba, Manmohan Singh, and many other Indian leaders across the political spectrum, are yester-year's men - autocratic, and pretendedly democratic. Indian parliaments are, now and then, in terrible uproar that shocks a more urbane world. Some Indian government security forces make large depa...
The Quaker Way: Silence, Peace and Democracy
2011-07-17 20:28:00 William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania Some of the most known distinguishing characteristics of Quakers may be their clothes, especially the wide-brimmed hats, and the supposed trembling or quaking before the power of God. Others may know them for their contribution to breakfast cereals and chocolate (Cadbury is a Quaker trademark). Still others may confuse them with some of the other more traditional Christian denominations that have consciously turned their back to society or that breed within their own confines. As with most Christian groups, the Quakers or Friends have also had their share of disagreements over the years and there are distinct parts and parties to Quakerdom. Although they mostly share the main Quaker tenets, there are still vital differences among them. I will discuss here what seems to me the most original aspects of the Quaker belief and lifestyle of its most liberal and, in my view, most influential branch. Quakers generally believe that everybody has a bit o...
By: Arash's World
Baseball : Democracy's Game
2011-04-29 19:12:00 It's no wonder that baseball is America's national past time. If you think America is a land of opportunity then the game of baseball explains a lot about who we are and how we pass time. Come to think of it, baseball also should be the "national past time" of Canada, all of Western Europe, France especially, and all of free world. The game corresponds to our needs as free people, our way of life and everything to which we aspire. To me it seems almost designed precisely by our Founding Fathers, or at least by seasoned politicians with good intentions. Here's what I mean... All are created equal Baseball requires you to be neither tall nor fast, nor supremely...
Democracy after journalism
2011-04-12 22:26:00 I suppose the title reveals my concerns, which are more about the former than the latter. We?ll be talking about it in Perugia this week at the International Journalism Festival. Here?s a reading list: Journalism was long ago seen as … Continue reading →
By: Adrian Monck
Libia Update (Video): Muammar Qaddafi To Resign And Sign Major Recording Ar
2011-02-28 02:35:00 Libyan Dictator Goes “Techno” On His People… Democracy wins again, folks! The Libyan crisis has taken a turn, perhaps for the best — it seems not only is Qaddafi about to leave Tripoli, he’s leaving it for Los Angeles to begin his new recording career… This is... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Democracy is impossible
2010-12-24 15:06:00 Far from being a self-evident truth, democracy is a temporary aberration of political order. It became popular during the Renaissance, when intellectuals embraced everything classical, from art to political philosophy. Democracy no more represents the real political order of Ancient Greece than Athens of Milos resembles an average Athenian woman. By modern standards, Athenian democracy was quite a totalitarian regime: fiercely religious and closed to cultural innovations, it refused voting rights to immigrants and their descendants. Modern political theory applied democracy to nation states where all members (citizens) have equal claim to the country and therefore equal political rights. Nothing could be further from the classical system. Mere residence in a town-state for countless generations did not confer citizenship and the right to control the state and define its character. Only descendants of the original inhabitants had those rights. Classical democracy served to preserve...
By: Samson Blinded
Is Western-style democracy suitable for Africa?
2010-11-04 00:47:00 By Julian Samboma I was involved in a discussion on the above subject yesterday on the BNVillage discussion board. Following is my contribution to this very important subject: Of course, Western-style democracy is not suited to Africa. That's what has been on the menu since independence, with the important exception that successive political leaders chose to ignore the positions of opposition parties - or got rid of them when they became too meddlesome.
By: eBeefs
Democracy: The Politics of Voting and Education
2010-11-03 11:20:00 My friend Meg has a pretty darn interesting life. We met at school, grew up taking dance classes together. I landed in Chicago, and she's lived abroad, hiked all over the world and has landed, for now, in Pecks, Hungary. I follow her Wanderlust Adventures and found one of her recent posts most interesting. Democracy and Non-Democratic Parties by: Megan Black. She posed the following question, to I realized I had a pretty lengthy reply. "In a democracy, do we have the right to vote in a party with non-democratic values? Hitler and his party were voted into power democratically. Are human-rights innately democratic issues? Do we need some sort of "moral code" of democracy...but wouldn't that too be undemocratic?...
The Original Dostor Will Be Back Folks
2010-10-29 20:00:00 Good news in fact great news , the best news of the day to be accurate : Ibrahim Eissa has met with the original Dostor journalists who are currently on strike at the syndication of journalists in Cairo and has told them that he will return back soon to take them to the new H.Q of their new newspaper. Another thing starting from next Monday Insh Allah the Original Dostor website will become an independent news website , already as a reminder Ibrahim Eissa owns the Domain The Dostor website has been chosen by Forbes magazine as the second most visited news website in Egypt after Youm 7 and the 17th most visited news website in the Arab world. Hopefully insh Allah after the big return of website it will be no.1. What happened to Dostor newspaper and the reaction of its journalists is a turning point not only in the Egyptian press but the Arab press. Technorati Tags: Citizen Journalism,Egypt,democracy,foll-ow Up,media,national,Dostor,Ibrahi-m Eissa,Journalism,Press
You Sold Yourself To The Devil , DO not Blame Anyone Except Yourself
2010-10-29 02:01:00 Because some did not believe the claims that the Egyptian regime is behind the Salafi channels and the Salafi trend in the country , the suspension of the Salafi channels revealed very interesting facts. Sheikh Safwat Hegazi revealed in a press conference at the syndication of journalists in Cairo that the regime asked from the Salafi trend to attack the Shiite from 5 years ago !! The man is even amazed why now the regime wants them to stop their attack on the Shiite accusing at the same time the regime of trying to get close to Iran to tease the States as the later wants to monitor the elections. Back in time from 5 years or to be accurate 4 years ago Hezbollah won over Israel in the Lebanon 2006 July war and it had this tremendous support in the Egyptian streets. I remember how the posters of Hassan Nasrallah were everywhere and people gathered to listen his speeches. The jewel of Hegazi?s statement is not his revelation that the regime ordered the Salafi channels to attack the ...
How Can You Plot For A Revolution In Egypt If You Are Not There
2010-10-27 01:50:00 Mohamed ElBaradei has got an interview in the daily beast , his interviewer Reza Aslan chose a very interesting headline for that interview ? Plotting a revolution in Egypt !!? Very catchy headline for sure but how can you plot for a real revolution in Egypt if you are not there !!?? I would like to clarify something here I support Dr. ElBaradei since day one and I will continue to support him, I proudly signed the petition and made my family signed too but I began to be frustrated because of Dr. ElBaradei?s absence from Egypt where he is supposed to be plotting for a revolution against +50 years regime and system. Dr. ElBaradei has become the most famous opposition leader in Egypt according to what I read in several international media websites and yet I feel lately that his fight against that decaying dying rotten regime in Egypt does not seem to be among his busy schedule?s priorities. Most of the Egyptian people whom he is aware of their misery more than the c...
Keep An Eye on Mona El-Shazly
2010-10-26 17:20:00 The gypsy madam/ Sheikh AbKamal aka Abdullah Kamal is speaking in his daily column in Rosa Daily as if the turn will be on Mona El-Shazly after Ibrahim Eissa. Mona El-Shazly , the popular TV hostess of 10 PM TV show is not loved by the regime media because they consider her biased as she hosts opposition icons and figures like Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei and the guide of MB in their HQ in a very rare incident in Egyptian TV history. Mona El-Shazly When the media crack down started El-Shazly gave hints on air that she could be next and now Madam Ruby is telling that El-Shazly is having a lot of trouble with Dream TV owner because of expense , the same thing he said about Ibrahim Eissa before 24 hours of the Dostor saga. If El-Shazly is forced to leave her on air show then you must know we are not imagining things when we say that we are living the autumn of fury Mubarak?s edition. Technorati Tags: Citizen Journalism,Egypt,democracy,foll-ow up,media,national,politics,mona- el...
Follow Up : Khaled Said Trial
2010-10-24 19:01:00 Yesterday was the 3rd session of Khaled Said murder trial in Alexandria where the court began to listen from witnesses from both sides. There is no surprises in what the witnesses said in front of the court as they said the same in front of the attorney general. The court adjourned the trial to the next 27th of November 2010. Outside the court there was a lot of action as usual but from one side only this time : The pro-plain clothed agents supporters or to correct the pro-MOI supporters from the families of the agents and the thugs hired by MP wannabes !! They founded something comic called the public front for the truth where in reality it is the public front for lies. Of course Sarah Carr took a couple of photos for their show yesterday. You can see them after the break along videos from that long day in Alex. Mr. Tarek The Pro-Khaled Said protesters were not allowed to stand near the court otherwise they were attacked and harassed , they tried to have a small protes...
Ibrahim Eissa?s Speech At The Egyptian Syndication of Journalists
2010-10-24 17:42:00 There was a celebration for the real Dostor newspaper and its journalists last week that was held at the Egyptian syndication of journalists in Cairo. Who attended that celebration ?? Well the real Dostor newspaper journalists , their fans from the public and public figures like actor Farouk El-Fishawy , novelist Bahaa Taher, poet Ahmed Fouad Nagm and old Dostor columnist Balal Fadel. For the first time since being from the newspaper he founded along with Essam Fahmi , Ibrahim Eissa made a public appearance , a strong one too. He gave a speech not to the audience but to the world , he addressed the whole world revealing new information about Dostor newspaper and why he was sacked from it. You can watch the speech below after the break Ibrahim Eissa addresses audience at the syndication of journalism by Nawara NegmNow here is a summary for what Ibrahim revealed : Hisham Talaat Mustafa wanted to buy both Sawt Al Oma and Dostor for $ 8 million to present them as a gift to his fath...
Where Is The Big Scoop Here ??
2010-10-24 00:05:00 The Israeli TV has said today that in some fake exclusive sense that Mubarak sooner will choose Omar Soliman as his vice president for a year where he can prepare Gamal Mubarak for presidency and as the Egypt Sat 1 news became the joke of the day , this news has become the news of the day as if the Israeli TV is predicting something we did not expect. That scenario is so old and there is nothing new about it , we are aware of this scenario and it is expected it so I do not know where is the scoop or the exclusivity here !!?? We know that as soon the the NDPC circus comes sooner , we will hear similar scenarios for this. The time of considering the Israeli media as a reliable media source is over I am afraid and we have to be very careful. FYI Omar Soliman according to Robert Fisk suffers from heart problems plus Mubarak is not stupid to appoint a popular military man with experience and acceptance from all the world ?seriously all the world seems to fall in love with hi...
The Administrative Court To The MOI : Get Your Officers Out of The Campus N
2010-10-23 17:52:00 The supreme administrative court has ordered today government to get their police and security units out of university campuses immediately The supreme administrative court has rejected the appeal of the government after its historical court rule that the security forces have no place at the universities campus according to the constitution. The question now : Will the government or rather the MOI respect the court rules or will it ignore as they always do !!?? The regime media is insisting on the importance of having security forces in campus as these forces will kick the ass of the MB students and protect the other students from evil plans to control the campus. Technorati Tags: Citizen Journalism,Egypt,democracy,foll-ow up,human rights,politics,MBs,Universitie-s,courts
A Journalist Gets 15 years in Jail in Publishing case Just like Hisham Tala
2010-10-23 16:32:00 Did not president Mubarak promise that no journalist will go to jail because of what he writes !!?? Well I believe he did so and his regime media loves to remind us so I wonder why then a young journalist like Allam Abdel Ghafar gets 15 years in jail !!?? Allam 23 years Allam Abdel Ghafar is a young journalist who is currently working in Youm 7 and as far as I could tell from a quick search in the website he was an active journalist too. Now Allam is facing 15 years in jail because of a report he had written about a corruption case at VACSERA which I guess was in last May . Last May we found MP Hayder Baghdady and Youm 7 saying that VACSERA imported expired polio vaccine according to documents that turned to be fake. Already Allam or rather Youm 7 received a copy from these fake documents from some former employee that want to defame the company. Again Abdel Ghafar was not the only one who spoke about the matter in the media , Baghdady brought the matter up in the parliament and o...
Mubarak To Run for Office in 2011
2010-10-22 20:04:00 Ali El-Din Halal told Reuters affirmatively that Mohamed Hosni Mubarak is going to be the presidential candidate of the NDP in the coming 2011 presidential elections. It is not a big surprise or a breaking news , it was expected especially with the recent absence of Gamal Mubarak and how his support campaigns turned to be the joke of the town. It was expected and more logic because Gamal Mubarak has not yet won neither the approval of the army nor the approval of the public to go ahead and claim his inheritance. It is the army that matter to Mubarak JR and it seems that the army does not welcome yet the idea of having a civilian as a president or may be of having Gamal Mubarak as a civilian president , after this army is made of Egyptians who have got brains , eyes and ears to see to where we have reached after 29 years of Mubarak rule. Of course the NDPians are speaking with all confidence that Mubarak is going to win the elections !! Of course he will , who else will win it as lon...
Chamber of Commerce = Foreign Powers & Business in our Democracy
2010-10-12 18:28:00 You have to know about this. And if you don't you need to learn about it... NOW! Republicans are running attack ads. That is not news. That is part of the everyday landscape of our process. Both parties do this. The difference this election season is where the funding for these ads is coming from. Foreign (read NOT AMERICAN) businesses & political entities disguised as businesses are funneling record amounts of "anonymous" cash into our elections to influence the outcome. The US Chamber of Commerce is an aggressive fundraising operation who now has international offices across the globe. Why would they do that you think? It's to raise money! So they can say they are "defending small businesses." Sounds pretty GOP to me! Think of all the multi-national corporations that would love to see the continuation of the deregulation of industry in America. How much would they love to see us continue to ship jobs offshor...
Hawkins Challenges Cuomo to Embrace Democracy and Agree to Open Debates
2010-09-28 23:43:00 Calls for Halt to Reaper Drones at Hancock, Return of National Guard Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, challenged Andy Cuomo to stop hiding from NY voters and agree to debate his opponents for Governor. “After the primary, An...
Gay marriage and the benefits of (un)democracy
2010-08-16 03:09:00 [From: Disloyal Opposition] I?m sure it comes as no surprise to anybody that I was pleased by Judge Vaughn Walker?s decision last week striking down California?s Proposition 8 and clearing the way for gay couples to enjoy the questionable benefits of marriage to the same extent as straight couples. As I?ve written in the past, ...
By: News for Greens
Fears for Democracy in India
2010-08-12 10:22:00 By MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM On February 27, 2002, the Sabarmati express train arrived in the station of Godhra, in the state of Gujarat, bearing a large group of Hindu pilgrims who were returning from a...
By: Light Within
Swami Nityananda Sex Scandal News Round Up
2010-05-24 22:08:00 The following is a quite brief but useful selection of Indian press articles. They suffice to give a sense of the unfolding of the Nityananda sex scandal saga. It is a great pity that Sathya Sai Baba and his core servitors are not being held to public accountability. He is vastly more powerful and influential than Nityananda. It does India no credit, nationally or internationally, that she occasionally nets in a few minnows and not the tiger sharks. The enormous public reaction to the Nityananda case furnishes a picture that makes two issues extremely clear. The first is that blind faith in gurus down the milennia has been made a matter of wide public debate. The other is that new generations are beginning to throw off the shackles of the past. The question that remains is whether Indian shall ever become the great democracy that she could be. These factors are well brought out, if rather wordily, by the South Indian lawyer. See my note, and the video links, at:
Barack Obama: Video Games Are Hurting Our Democracy
2010-05-10 08:30:00 Roger Ebert isn't the only prominent Chicagoan dissing video games. This weekend, president Barack Obama made his most outspoken comments yet about the danger of "Xboxs and Playstations." In a commencement speech to graduates at Hampton University, Obama argues that entertainment obtained from video games is not constructive for "emancipation", and will continue to create problems for future generations if consumed as is....
The GTL? Sunday Guest Column ? ?Bottom Of The Political Barrel? By Christop
2010-03-29 02:18:00 GTL? Sunday Guest Columnist: Author And “Moderately-Right-Of-Cent-er” Political Pundit Christopher L. Doster Employs His Right-Leaning Andy Rooney-ish Style Of Humor And Sarcasm To Continue His Ongoing Rant Against (What Else? ObamaCare, Of Course)…” ?Bottom Of The Political... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Back Room Deals is NOT Democracy
2010-03-23 02:36:00 -By the Illinois Conservatives FaceBook Group Turns out, yes he can. President Obama has shown the country that yes, he can do the secret backroom deals and kickbacks that he promised to eschew. That yes, he can confuse and complicate a process and fog it over with last-minute "emotional pleas." Yes, he can force Americans to buy a product. And yes, he can orchestrate a government take-over of 1/6 of the American economy. While President Obama once campaigned on transparency and bi-partisan cooperation, he and Nancy Pelosi have shown us that not only is it politics as usual with them--but on a bigger, more jaded and oppositional level than we've ever seen. Instead of working with Republicans to work...
Social Democracy has the Potential to produce effective Policies for Sustai
2010-03-14 11:00:00 The prevailing patterns of production, consumption and economic activity in general have given rise to serious sustainability problems in several areas. These accelerated further in the last decades as the world economy grew considerably bigger. Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that unless drastic action is taken, global warming will lead to catastrophic consequences throughout the earth. Independently ...
Democratic Politics beyond the Third Way
2010-03-05 11:08:00 Social democrats have a strong claim on democracy, and for good reason. First, their opposition to Soviet-style communism and their commitment to parliamentary democracy marked the beginning of their journey towards power. Second, as soon as the alliance with the liberals fulfilled the goal of equality in political representation for the working class, they set their ...
Rebuilding Democracy
2010-03-04 10:08:00 Increasing social disintegration, the domination of private economic interests and the erosion of democratic politics show the necessity for a profound democratic renewal of European societies. Democratisation refers not only to the political sphere, but involves all sectors of society, the economy as well as the production of knowledge. In the following I will focus ...
What Happens In Greece, Spreads From Greece. - The Birth Place of Democracy
2010-02-25 06:05:00 Clashes break out at Greek crisis protests ATHENS, Greece ? Police fired tear gas and clashed with demonstrators in Athens after some 50,000 people finished a peaceful march against cutbacks intended... Concerned about the coming year 2012? Find out why only SOME of us should!
Last chance to have your say on democracy
2010-02-20 11:36:00 Power 2010, the open campaign for democratic renewal, has entered the final few days of its public poll ? where anyone can go online and vote for the changes they?d make to British democracy. read more
By: Ekklesia
Ron Thal: Chinese Democracy... like the Beatles White Album?
2010-02-11 01:20:00 Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal continues the illuminating conversation which sheds light on how he came to join Guns N' Roses, the album "Chinese Democracy", touring, the band's 2010 lineup, and notions surrounding the group and frontman Axl Rose.full details
Recoverable Proxy, a step towards true democracy
2010-02-05 15:41:00 [From Aardvark I idea for reform of the political system in New Zeland, but applical most anywhere. An interesting idea. -RS] What is Recoverable Proxy? By Bruce Simpson The recent arrival of ubiquitous technologies based on widespread communications networks have now made it possible for us to at last provide the citizens of the country with the checks ...
By: News for Greens
Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction
2010-02-01 15:54:00 [From Truthdig ] By Chris Hedges Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d’état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost. The ruling is one more judicial effort to streamline mechanisms for corporate control. It exposes the myth of a functioning democracy ...
By: News for Greens
In the Name of 'Threat to Democracy'
2009-12-29 09:38:00 Every blast anywhere in Pakistan leaves us sad, depressed but I have felt more pain from the two attacks, one, attack in Rawalpindi where we lost 36 innocent people including some of my comrades and...
By: Light Within
Mr.President Please Tear Down This Wall
2009-12-20 09:35:00 At first I did not want to believe the news despite all the indicators showed it was true : Mubarak?s regime which represents and rules Egypt is building an iron wall in the borders between Egypt and Gaza in order to stop the smuggling in to the sector Here is the undisputed proof : A photo from this ugly iron wall under construction. I do not have to guess from where that steel came from : Ezz Steel. I am not convinced with all those fake justification about sovereignty , again where is our sovereignty when Egyptians and tourists were kidnapped from our territories !!?? Where is our sovereignty when we are being humiliated by Prince Turk Al Soud and his notorious wife !!?? The word ?Sovereignty? provokes me nowadays because simply we do not enjoy it anymore thanks to this regime so please enough of the sovereignty talk , let?s be honest and say that this wall is made for Israel?s security by American and French recommendations. I know you will wonder ?French?, what broug... |
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