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• None out of two is pretty bad, actually

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 581
  Is it breaking Godwin’s Law when you compare something to Hitler, but in a good way ? There has been fiery debate in State Parliament over the government’s legislation proposing greater stop and search powers for police, with comparisons made to Nazi Germany. The legislation would allow police to search people ...
  11 hours ago

• Azerbaijan: bloggers’ sentences further proof of backsliding

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  A Baku court today sentenced two opposition bloggers to prison in a case that has highlighted declining media freedoms and curbs on civil society in Azerbaijan. Emin Milli, 30, and Adnan Hajizada, 26, received sentences of two and two-and-a-half years, respectively.The verdict came on the same day as a round table ...
  17 hours ago

• Kazakh activists’ prosecution politically-motivated

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The prosecution of leading Kazakh democracy and human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis is politically motivated, new reports suggest.Zhovtis, director of the Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, was sentenced to four years in prison last month for accidentally ...
  19 hours ago

• Anti War Soldier Arrested For Speaking Out

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 520
  Lance Corporal Joe Glenton , the soldier who faces desertion charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, has been arrested and charged with five further offences for speaking out in opposition to the presence of troops in Afghanistan. The charges allege that he led the Stop the War demonstration in London on 24 ...
  20 hours ago

• Refreshing

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Once a far right conservative, and now a moderate liberal, Marty Beckerman, in Salon today,  shares his epiphany: I’ve learned to see the big picture. It doesn’t matter whether you are liberal or conservative, but it’s dangerous to always think with exclamation points instead of question marks. Your stance ...
  1 day ago

• From solidarity to democracy: from Berlin to Tehran?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  Celebrating the anniversary of the 1989 democratic revolutions should not blind us to democracy’s vulnerability, says a leading dissident of the time. The anti-democratic backlash and authoritarian resurgence should serve to remind us that there is no inevitable forward march of history towards freedom and ...
  2 days ago

• Preventing People From Dying is Just Like Genocide

  
  Vagabond Scholar — Authority: 421
  These photos from the teabagger rally of Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) have thankfully been getting some exposure:The sign says “National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau Germany – 1945." I first saw this item via Richard Blair of All Spin Zone. Distributorcap also has a brief item on this, and notes, "This ...
  4 days ago

• Argentina: Unionists block distribution of newspapers.

  
  Dagorret — Authority: 129
  The secretary general of the CGT, Hugo Moyano, along with members of the labor union truck drivers, blocked again this morning the Distribution of the newspapers La Nacion and Clarin. The demonstrators staged a protest outside the plant distribution of the two newspapers in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas. ...
  4 days ago

• Unbridled power

  
  The Standard — Authority: 609
  The government and the Police are spinning all the new security measures as a national security matter and a crack-down ONLY on the leaders of organised crime, watching how the worst villains spend their ill-gotten gains and preventing them from corrupting police and politicians (snort) etc. Police minister Judith ...
  5 days ago

• Democracy events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  November 9, 2009. 20 Years Ago: The Fall of the Berlin WallThe Friedrich Naumann Foundation invites you to a Roundtable Discussion with Torsten Herbst, Member of the State Legislature of Saxony, Secretary General of the Saxon Free Democratic Party (FDP). The Willard InterContinental Hotel, Crystal Room, 1401 ...
  5 days ago

• Jobs & Opportunities

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  Rights & Democracy’s International conference on Sharia and family law reform Rights & Democracy, the Canadian democracy assistance group, is searching for two speakers to present papers at an international conference on Sharia and family law reform in Muslim countries that we are hosting next February in ...
  5 days ago

• Berlin Wall’s lessons for promoting democracy

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  While Soviet communism has entered the dustbin of history, new forms of repression have emerged, writes RFE/RL’s  Jeff Gedmin. As “authoritarian regimes are cooperating in unprecedented ways when it comes to the art and science of stifling the democratic impulses of their citizens,” the Berlin Wall’s lessons ...
  6 days ago

• 1989: The God That Failed, The Wall That Fell

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Freedom House has launched a new web feature highlighting the changes in freedom in the former communist world. Freedom Before and After the Wall includes a retrospective essay; charts and graphs; a series of maps from 1989, 1999, and 2009 reflecting the ...
  6 days ago

• Causes of Rwandan Genocide still not addressed

  
  International Political Will — Authority: 98
  It’s noticeable as soon as you cross the border from Uganda.A palpable anxiety, hanging in the air over the country: a sense of apprehension. Rwanda feels like it’s trying to enjoy a brief respite from violence, knowing that a similar future is inevitable. The genocide of 1994 may be in the past, but the causes ...
  1 week ago

• It’s Not Just the 200th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Birth, It’s Also the 500th Anniversary of John Calvin’s!

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  John Calvin was born 500 years ago, in 1509, but I have a hard time understanding what, exactly, we should celebrate about it, or how to celebrate it. John Calvin, afterall, looked askance at merriment, drinking, and dancing, so what exactly do you do to celebrate John Calvin’s birthday? In terms of what to ...
  1 week ago

• Fragile Honduras pact highlights threat of coups from within the state

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  An end to the political impasse in Honduras is in sight after both sidesagreed a US-mediated formula to defuse the constitutional crisis. But prospects for a settlement remain uncertain with some comparing the negotiations to an elephant balancing on a tightrope.While some commentators have criticized the deal as a ...
  1 week ago

• Can an Authoritarian Tree Produce Good Fruit? Thinking about John Calvin’s Geneva

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  After Disneyland, the happiest place on Earth? Here’s the historian Will Durant, from his book The Reformation (1957, pp. 473-474), on what John Calvin’s Geneva was like in the 16th century: Calvin himself, austere and severe, dreamed of a community so well regulated that its virtue would prove his theology, ...
  1 week ago

• For Russia, the China Model Fits the Best: Izvestia, Russia

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 730
  Can Russia break the strongman habit? Is Russia ready for Western-Style democracy – which includes true pluralism and checks on the executive? It’s a debate that’s been going on since the fall of the Berlin Wall. This article from Izvestia - once the official mouthpiece of the Soviet government – ...
  1 week ago

• Russia’s political technologists projecting soft power abroad?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  Contrary to claims that Russia is weak and in decline, one of the country’s leading political technologists insists that Vladimir Putin has forged a consensus or “value-based reality” that addresses the problems of its very existence and quality of governance.Aside from resolving critical domestic challenges, ...
  1 week ago

• Egypt’s dynastic succession contested, as Muslim Brotherhood fractures

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  Will Gamal Mubarak succeed his father as Egypt’s next president? Is the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s leading opposition force, about to split? Should liberal and democratic forces align themselves with the Brotherhood to oppose “hereditary democracy”  even at the risk of absorbing elements of the ...
  1 week ago

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