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• 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, ...
  21 hours ago

• BBC photographer prevented from shooting St Pauls because he might be "al Quaeda operative"

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 888
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• Turkey wants universal email surveillance from birth

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 888
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• 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 ...
  4 days ago

• Yo, free speech warriors…

  
  unrepentant old hippie — Authority: 478
  …especially you socially conservative so-called “free” so-called “speechers” … Hello?  Hello?? (*tap-tap*  Is this thing on?)
  4 days ago

• Cyprus: The Republic of Authoritarian Stupidity

  
  Boatang & Demetriou — Authority: 466
  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. ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• Defending the Loop

  
  Sublime Oblivion — Authority: 451
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Breaking the Back of America

  
  (((Billy))) The Atheist — Authority: 458
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• "I cant wait to follow EXACTLY what Beck tells us"

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 671
  By GottaLaff Via where else? Twitter: Theres nothing like authoritarianism and blind followers to ruin a perfectly good country. Come to think of it, isnt it rather contradictory to follow "EXACTLY" what Blech tells one to do... to avoid impending dictatorship? Why, I do believe FreedomTCOTs thoughts and ...
  1 week ago

• Is Glenn Beck a Gateway Drug to White Racial Consciousness?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  Is Glenn Beck conservative marijuana? A gateway drug? Baby steps? The first free hit? According to a Salon survey of racist website discussion groups, these are some of the analogies that white power enthusiasts are using for Glenn Beck. Here, for example, is what a Stormfront member with 3500 postings to the site ...
  1 week ago

• Ominous echoes in China’s anti-Uyghur backlash

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  The challenge of confronting Uyghur stereotypes and elevating support for their demands for autonomy and democratic rights requires a new dialog between Uyghurs, Han Chinese dissidents and human rights activists internationally, a Washington conference heard today.China’s communist authorities had reacted to the ...
  1 week ago

• Mideast democracy: can’t be exported or imported, but – despite dilemmas – must be supported

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  The dilemmas of reconciling security and human rights, stability and reform, and external and internal drivers for change were the dominant themes running through a conference on Middle East democracy this week.The event was organized by the National Endowment for Democracy in cooperation with the National ...
  1 week ago

• Democrats vs. dynasties

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  A leading dissident today welcomed the prospects of Mohamed el-Baradei entering Egypt’s presidential race in 2011.Ayman Nour, imprisoned after challenging President Hosni Mubarak in the country’s first genuinely contested race in 2005, said there was “no competition” between them and he looked forward to ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Secures China Cooperation on Recovery, Climate

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  Pres. Obama has reportedly secured Chinese president Hu Jintao’s pledge of cooperation on global economic recovery, efforts to curb emissions and combat climate destabilization, and nuclear non-proliferation, both in Iran and North Korea. The pledge of cooperation came despite Obama’s demand that China honor the ...
  1 week ago

• Corruption Index today, Development Aid Reform tomorrow?

  
  The Kaufmann Governance Post — Authority: 100
  Transparency International (TI) , the international anti-corruption NGO, just released its annual corruption perceptions index (CPI).  No big surprises. This is no surprise.  Corruption does not tend to change dramatically from one year to the next.  Yet it is certainly worth reviewing the new data. ...
  1 week ago

• Arab democrats speak out

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  The agenda for this week’s conference on Middle East democrats, co-sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute, has been confirmed. Check it out: 8:30-8:45: Registration and continental breakfast8:50-9:00: Welcome: Carl Gershman, ...
  1 week ago

• Russia’s Sisyphean Loop

  
  Sublime Oblivion — Authority: 451
  Anatoly Karlin @ www.SublimeOblivion.com PDF version | DOC version Russia’s Sisyphean Loop The Eternal Return to the Future? In this article I attempt to explain Russia’s historical cycles of failed Westernization and to project its future socio-political trajectory. First, I note the nature of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Secret Inquests & The Workhouse

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 475
  So now the govt can murder people and cover it up and force people below the poverty line into work that makes them worse off or else pay a fine, yep really they just made poverty and receiving welfare a crime. Apparently raising child is not work to our ruling classes (well it isn’t for them, they pay nannies and ...
  2 weeks ago

• FireDogLake Book Salon hosts Hetherington & Weiler

  
  This Side of the Pond — Authority: 120
  Yesterday’s Book Salon discussion over at FireDogLake featured our own Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, authors of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics . They hosted our authors extremely well; many thanks. Henry Farrell introduces: Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler’s new ...
  2 weeks ago

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