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  • BOLIVIA : A Democratic Revolution Transforming Society
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Last March Evo Morales, first indigenous president of Bolivia, instituted in his country a loan to be granted to all children under the age of 12 years living in poor rural communities. During the launching event, Morales approached an indigenous boy and asked him, "What are you going to do now with this money?" The little boy answered "I am going to use it to study because I want to become a president of us like you are."
    Such an answer from an indigenous child would have been unthinkable (…)

  • Feds want Net snooping limits overturned
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Feds want Net snooping limits overturned
    Posted by Anne Broache
    November 5, 2007 5:25 PM PST
    The Bush administration plans to fight a recent court decision that threatens to curb its powers to obtain logs of Americans’ Internet activities without court approval.
    As expected, the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday filed a notice that it plans to appeal a September federal court ruling that declared the surveillance tactic, known as a national security letter, to be (…)

  • What we must learn from India: People Power, Land Reform and the Origins of Tree Hugging
    29 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A true democracy can only be identified when the citizens of a Nation join together to affects the laws under which they are governed. India, the most populous democracy in the world, has in its brief history repeatedly shown us how the poorest of the poor can join together and become a force to be reckoned with.
    The latest lesson that we have been taught is how to achieve changes in property laws to protect the impoverished. “An estimated 25,000 people from across India gathered in New (…)

  • The Call for Christo-Fascism Awareness Week
    27 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    10-25-07
    The Call for Christo-Fascism Awareness Week
    December 25 -30, 2007
    By Dr. June C. Terpstra
    "This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile." GW Bush
    "God told me to strike at Al-Qaeda and I struck them. And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. And now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.”— GW Bush
    Onward Christian Soldiers and One Nation Under God
    With the close of this week’s campus programs in the USA entitled (…)

  • Afghanistan after democracy
    24 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Afghanistan after democracy: the untold story through photographic images" is the story of suffering of the Afghan people. This book exposes the lies of the Bush administration about the post-Taliban Afghanistan, and the disaster brought upon Afghanistan by the United States of America and her allies. It exposes democracy as the buzz word for the neocolonial adventure of the US. The claims of reconstruction in Afghanistan is nothing but a total fraud.
    It exposes the failure of the US (…)

  • Your Papers Please!
    22 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Alan Stang
    By now we are all used to how Washington works. The conspiracy for world government concocts and announces an emergency. It could be military. Someone “has attacked us.” It could be medical. “Millions of Americans lack health care. Or there is an epidemic.” It could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane. Or, maybe it is economic or cultural. “Women routinely are abused. They earn only a fraction of a man’s pay. Black people are deprived. Latinos are insulted.” Et cetera and (…)

  • Aristocracy and Democracy
    11 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A great number of today’s books, films, magazines and shows lead people in the direction of disorder, anarchy and chaos. And they are tremendously popular! It is astonishing to see to what extent human nature needs to feed on such diabolical stuff. So much so that you cannot really blame artists and writers for giving the public this kind of food; they are simply trying to provide what it demands so avidly. It is not entirely their fault therefore, but even so, if they had been taught by (…)

  • Communism vs. Capitalism
    10 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No political system has ever proved to be wholly effective. Neither a monarchy nor an oligarchy, a democracy nor a republic has ever found definitive solution. And this is simply because the system of government is not everything. If individuals are not conscious of their duty as citizens, if they don’t understand that they must live in harmony with each other, a country will always be in chaos whatever the political regime. There will always be excesses, disorders and tribulations. .. (…)

  • HOW BRAVELY COWARDS WAGE WAR
    10 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A popular movie catchphrase from the Blaxploitation era of the 1970s proclaimed: “The Mob wanted Harlem. They got SHAFT.”
    In today’s America there is a similar catchphrase: “The people voted for change in the last election. They got the SHAFT.”
    This reality lends credence to the late Che Guevara’s theory that democracy is simply an illusion designed to quash the impetus for meaningful social change. As long as the masses are duped into believing that the electoral process is capable (…)

  • A world under surveillance
    7 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From surveillance cameras to data pirating, every bit of life is scanned and stored to meet economic and political agendas. Until awareness is heightened and proper legislation put in place, our right to privacy will continue to be violated, said privacy activists at the Privacy Rights in a World under Surveillance conference held last weekend at Montreal’s Sheraton Centre.
    By Stephanie Stein 2007-10-03 10:16:57
    An explosion of new technologies that enable the tracking and monitoring of (…)