Authoritarianism

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• Iran: regime internationally assertive, but still domestically vulnerable

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  Iran’s Islamic Republic is extending its crackdown against the Green opposition movement to expat critics. Its actions confirm the concerns of democracy activists and analysts alike that authoritarian regimes are deploying more sophisticated technologies to identify and suppress reformist voices.The regime’s ...
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• Žižek’s Metapolitics

  
  Sublime Oblivion — Authority: 457
  Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s most brilliant philosophers. There’s no disputing that he sounds rambling and incoherent, but far from being off-putting, it forces one to consider (decipher?) his words all the more carefully. Indeed, the material and ideas are such that they defy clear exposition by being ...
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• Rise of the new McCarthyism

  
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  Taking a stroll down Memory Lane for a second to some of the teabagger events held over the past few months, you might recall this photo: This poor kid is obviously too young to know Communism or McCarthyism from a hole in the ground, and is being used by his brain-damaged, ill-informed parents as another body to ...
  3 days ago

• Eureka Day in Australia

  
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  We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other, and fight to defend our rights and liberties. The diggers oath was not sworn before a deity, but a constellation 1854 Australia: The Battle of Eureka Stockade, an uprising of Victorian Gold Rush gold miners against the State of Victoria; six troopers ...
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• Egypt: democrats distracted?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  The campaign against Gamal Mubarak’s succession is distracting the Egyptian opposition from more important priorities, writes Amr Hamzawy, a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut.Developing an electoral platform and vision for the country’s development, and pressuring the regime for ...
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• The Deeper Meaning of Climategate

  
  Sublime Oblivion — Authority: 457
  As someone who has stuck my neck out for the imminent reality of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in both my real and online life, it would be fitting for me to comment on the Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident (and as per usual, what was originally meant as a “comment” has blossomed into a ...
  4 days ago

• An Ultimate Supernatural Guilt Trip

  
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  One of my frequently frequented grocery stores is closing.  Sunshine Mart, which has been around since the 1940s or earlier (Chappie, did you ever shop there?) is in the process of shutting down.   The store was a popular one in the valley.  One woman (((Wife))) knows remembers shopping there when she was a ...
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• EU betraying 1989 legacy in Belarus?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  Reportedly fearful of Belarus irrevocably falling into Russia’s orbit, the European Union has sought to engage Europe’s last dictatorship. But Alexander Lukashenko, “one of the world’s worst autocrats”, has deftly played the EU, writes Jorg Forbrig, which currently risks betraying the legacy of 1989:Absent ...
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• More spill thread with added smokey goodness

  
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  The spill is on, Tony Abbott is in, Joe Hockey looks to be taking inspiration from Peter Costello in wanting the leadership without getting blood on his hands, Kevin Andrews has ruled himself out and George Brandis has now shown his hand and come out in support of Malcolm Turnbull. As for Turnbull, well he’s not ...
  5 days ago

• U.S. too timid in supporting Arab democracy?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  Are Arab democrats and reformists losing confidence in the Obama administration? A recent spate of articles would suggest so.The U.S. is committed to using “principled engagement” to promote democracy in the Arab and wider Muslim world, Michael Posner, assistant US secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, ...
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• BBC photographer prevented from shooting St Pauls because he might be "al Quaeda operative"

  
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  A BBC photographer was stopped from taking a picture of the sun setting by St Pauls Cathedral in London. A real police officer and a fake "community support officer" stopped the photog and said he couldnt take any pictures because with his professional-style camera, he might be an "al Quaeda operative" on a "scouting ...
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• Turkey wants universal email surveillance from birth

  
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  Evgeny sez, "The Turkish government has a very disturbing Internet plan, which includes 1) creating a new search engine that would reflect Turkish sensibilities (i.e. filter out certain results) 2) supply each of 70 million Turkish citizens with a 10 GB email account that would be linked to their national ID numbers ...
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• No Class

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 145
  It is bad enough, of course, that the Islamic regime in Iran is brutally crushing any attempt to protest its theft of the presidential election this past June. But in addition to the repression it is engaging in, the regime is also showing just how cheap and petty it can be : Iranian authorities have confiscated ...
  1 week ago

• Yo, free speech warriors…

  
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  …especially you socially conservative so-called “free” so-called “speechers” … Hello?  Hello?? (*tap-tap*  Is this thing on?)
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• Cyprus: The Republic of Authoritarian Stupidity

  
  Boatang & Demetriou — Authority: 421
  Youve got to love the bubbles.Many readers of ours may have formed the view that because this half of Boaty & D is of Greek extraction, he must therefore be biased to all things Greek. Au Contraire. As with anything in life, I believe in consistency and weighing up all the facts before making an informed decision. ...
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• Thanksgiving Holiday Reading

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  The internet is supposed to empower citizens and undermine authoritarian regimes. But Evgeny Morozov challenges the conventional wisdom and details How dictators watch us on the web.Roger Cohen examines Obama’s Foreign Policy Labyrinth in the New York Times, while Newsweek’s Michael Hirsh believes Obama’s ...
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• Defending the Loop

  
  Sublime Oblivion — Authority: 457
  Following my posting of Russia’s Sisyphean Loop , the influential East-Central Europe expert, Vlad Sobell, wrote up an interesting critique at the Untimely Thoughts Russia Discussion Group . It addresses what may be considered some weak, or at least not thoroughly explained, points from the original article, so I ...
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• Democracy deferred? A developmental approach to democracy assistance

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  Tara McKelvey suggests that the Obama administration is following a more “culturally sensitive” way of promoting democracy, in marked contrast to the Bush administration’s “cowboy” approach.It is a strategy that many democracy advocates may endorse, given the apparent absence of likely candidates for ...
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• Old Spill

  
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  Police officers are now routinely arresting people in order to add their DNA sample to the national police database, an inquiry will allege tomorrow. The review of the national DNA database by the government’s human genetics commission also raises the possibility that the DNA profiles of three-quarters of young ...
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• Breaking the Back of America

  
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  Conservatives are the backbone of America.  Their respect for the Constitution of the United States, their respect for the laws of America, their respect for the President of the United States of America (whether they agree with his political views or not), their battles for equal rights for all humans, and their ...
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