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Democracy

Thousands protest against smut law

Several thousand Indonesians have held a rally to protest against an anti-pornography bill that is before parliament. The protesters, who came from Papua, North Sulawesi, Yogyakarta on Java island and Bali, carried a 230-metre...

ABC Censors Pro-Life Ad Exposing Barack Obama's Pro-Abortion Record

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- The ABC television network is coming under fire from a leading pro-life group for censoring a political radio ad that criticizes Barack Obama's pro-abortion voting record. National Right to Life...

The EU ticks a box

Seems logical enough. Journalists who cross the authoritarian regime in Uzbekistan have been murdered, others have been tortured, and yet others are being framed by the police right now. In Tashkent's assault on freedom of...

Defend our democracy, Lekota urges SA

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA Oct 12 2008 07:30 The map will replace this text. Former African National Congress (ANC) chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota has urged South Africans to join the campaign to defend the Constitution against...

A question of free speech

Intolerance of the written word, the most recent example being Sherry Jones’ Jewel of Medina, is not confined to Islam. Sherry Jones, an American journalist, started thinking about Islam after 9/11 and researched its history...

Hawaii debates need for constitution fixes

Voters get a once-in-a-decade chance in November to call for a Constitutional Convention, a right the framers of the state constitution felt was reasonable to provide a workable means of amending the state's governing document.

If you want true democracy, get rid of the Electoral College

On Nov. 4, either Barack Obama or John McCain will be elected the next president of the United States. The Electoral College has allowed America's democracy to slowly morph into a destructive, and unrepresentative, two-party...

Beyond Elections

This brand new film, just out as of September, 2008, has a new approach to some big questions: What is democracy? Freedom, equality, participation? Everyone has his or her own definition. Across the world, over 120 countries...

Summary of evidence regarding Obama and the New Party (vanity)

As requested, here’s a summary of what we’ve got on the New Party and Obama so far: What is the New Party? “The New Party believes that the social, economic, and political progress of the United States requires a democratic...

Akufo-Addo Promises Transparency and Democracy

In a bid to ensure public trust in his leadership, New Patriotic Party Presidential Candidate Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pledged to implement policies and reforms designed to strengthen democracy and tackle corruption in Ghana....

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