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| #1 | 12/20/2023 | Baltic States' war against themselves (Adomas Abromaitis) It is not a secret, that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are close U.S. allies. Strong U.S. relations with these three states are constantly fueled. Thus, U.S. and Baltic States sign bilateral 5-year roadmaps for defense cooperation on December 15. This is a serious evidence of U.S. military and economic ambitions in the region. Washington tries its best to deepen the dependence in such vulnerable sphere as defence. |
| #2 | 6/3/2023 | Reconsidering the Path of Vengeance: Preserving Democracy in Pakistan
(Muhammad Khurshid) Recent events in Pakistan, including the arrest of political leaders and the crackdown on supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), have raised concerns about the state of democracy in the country. While the violent acts committed by some PTI supporters are condemnable and should be dealt with according to the law, the efforts to eliminate the PTI through mass arrests, intimidation, and political engineering .1  |
| #3 | 5/23/2023 | Latvia risks to turn to a ghost state (Viktors Domburs) Latvia 2020 population was estimated at 1,886,198 people at mid year according to UN data. At the beginning of 2022 population of Latvia accounted for 1 million 876 thousand people, which is 17.5 thousand people fewer than a year ago. The current population of Latvia is 1,826,608 as of May 17, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data. |
| #4 | 3/22/2023 | An American Democracy With 2 Corporate (For Profit) Media Sources of Misinformation?!
(Larry Fisher) This article describes the last 44-years of the U.S. government's operation for what they are, legalized crime, and that now more than supports the American people's and Congress' newly elected 118th member's demands for Congress' required 3rd civil service reform.1 |
| #5 | 1/13/2023 | An Islamic Victory Against Free Speech and Education
(Bob Johnson) A college professor lost her job teaching art history because she showed the class an image of a painting of Mohammed. We need to break free of the stranglehold Islam and the other manmade "revealed" religions have on society.2 |
| #6 | 12/21/2022 | How Both Parties Destroyed America's Democracy
(Larry Fisher) This article exposes both parties' internal threats to the American people's democracy in 2 ways, declaring their lawless acts secret and providing Wikipedia with inaccurate information regarding every facet of the U.S. government's not so democratic operation.1 |
| #7 | 12/8/2022 | The Logical Conclusion of the Religious Right's Religious Freedom of Expression Argument
(Bob Johnson) The theocrats in the religious right are enjoying many victories in their work to subvert the US into a Bible-based Christian theocracy. The Bible can be used to stop them.2 |
| #8 | 9/12/2022 | New Tech Lets Citizens Audit Elections
(Steve Schneider) Concerned about close elections deciding which party controls the Congress? Worried that vote counts are not always accurate? Or that bad actors may "rig" the system? Democracy Counts has an answer that empowers citizens to audit elections.8 |
| #9 | 8/28/2022 | Show your Support for Amending the Constitution, Democracy, Honor Justice Ginsburg and Women's Equality Day!
The linked piece relates to the final step is to
publish the ERA as the 28th Amendment to our Constitution, which was passed by
Congress and ratified by 38 states. Since amending the U.S. has been so rare
over the last 5 decades, few can argue that it is the ultimate in Democracy
and our representative form of government.
Please draw
you attention to the ERA action points and act as you see fit, especially
bringing ...1 |
| #10 | 8/16/2022 | Hero of Free Speech, Salman Rushdie, Stabbed by Islamic Terrorist
(Bob Johnson) Salman Rushdie was attacked and stabbed by a young man who was under the influence of Islam. Islam, and all of the man-made "revealed" Abrahamic religions have blasphemy laws and rules which are intended to prevent people from applying their innate God-given reason to the nonsense being taught by the "revealed" religions.2 |
| #11 | 6/2/2022 | The Freedom Convoy and the Collapse of Canadian Liberalism (Ray McGinnis) Revisiting the ordeal of the trucker freedom convoy to Ottawa reveals how illiberal the Canadian Liberal government has become, and how a politics of fear can galvanize a citizenry to express disgust toward any group a government chooses to put in its crosshairs. The inquiry into the convoy promises to ignore needed lines of investigation, and offer Canadians a whitewash. |
| #12 | 3/7/2022 | Empower Dalit Women
(Mohan Nepali) As the Nepal Human Development Report 2020 points out, the widening inequality and continued deprivation of such substantially productive human capital would undermine the nation's overall strength. Nepal's National Planning Commission is yet to produce a well-considered plan for the overall empowerment of Nepali Dalits. Education, as a multi-faceted change tool, would be the best option to plan for this purpose.7 |
| #13 | 1/20/2022 | New South Florida Congresswoman Backs Guaranteed Income, Increased Minimum Wage Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is the newest member of Congress. The Broward County representative was sworn in Tuesday night to fill the seat of a Democratic congressman who died in April. "In her campaign she called for a guaranteed income of $1,000 a month for most adults and an increase in the federal minimum wage to $20 an hour," according to CBS News in Miami. Possibly forecasting trying days ahead f... |
| #14 | 1/7/2022 | "Democracy and rule of law do not exist in Ukraine, but corruption thrives" Leonid Savin said (Steven Sahiounie) This is an interview with geopolitical analyst Leonid Savin about the latest situation in Ukraine |
| #15 | 11/10/2021 | Tunisian democracy transitions away from Muslim Brotherhood (Steven Sahiounie) This article talks about the latest situation in Tunisia |
| #16 | 6/28/2021 | Whistleblower and the press break the code of silence in an Australian police state
(Steven Sahiounie) This article talks about a Australian whistleblower that talks about the war against Afghanistan1 |
| #17 | 6/10/2021 | Powerful Democrat, Son Gave Money to Sen. Manchin Recently (Steve Schneider) A former Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate and his son donated money to Sen. Joe Manchin in March. Why? |
| #18 | 5/19/2021 | Online Constitutional Convention Begins May 25th
(John De Herrera) If you've been paying attention, then you know that over the past five years there have been mainstream editorials (NYT, WSJ, WP, etc.) discussing whether or not we ought to convoke a federal convention for the purpose of proposing and deliberating amendments. Most people have a pet amendment; mine has to do with electoral reforms.3 |
| #19 | 5/11/2021 | Toward Economic, Ecological, and Human Interdependence
(Carmine Gorga, Ph.D.) Important work by Blair Gelbond and my own work make me realize that, for us all to succeed, we all ought to work Toward an Integration of Economic, Ecological, and Human Interdependence.1 |
| #20 | 4/23/2021 | Masculinity, and Indian Fascism
(Iftekhar Sayeed) The self-contempt of the Indians has been exploited by the politicians in time-honoured fashion. They have generated "libidinous feelings" (Freud's term) and the opposite against "outsiders". Their femininity, alleged by the British and believed by themselves, have created fantasies of glory and hatred.1 |
| #21 | 4/16/2021 | Economic Justice and Human Ecology
(Carmine Gorga, Ph.D.) Econ-Ecol. What a lovely expression. But the two subjects are still separated from each other. Mine is an ongoing attempt to unite the study -- and ideally, the practice -- of Economics and Ecology.5 |
| #22 | 3/24/2021 | US Sinks to New Low in Rankings of World's Democracies
The US has fallen to a new low in a global ranking of political rights and civil liberties, a drop fueled by unequal treatment of minority groups, damaging influence of money in politics, and increased polarization, according to a new report by Freedom House, a democracy watchdog group.
The US earned 83 out of 100 possible points this year in Freedom House’s annual rankings of freedoms around...1 |
| #23 | 3/19/2021 | Mino Lora: Governing Through a Social Justice Lens (Marcia G. Yerman) An interview with Mino Lora, candidate in the Bronx Special Election for City Councilmember, District 11. |
| #24 | 2/9/2021 | Freedom of speech as a threat to national security of the Baltic States (Antanas Tubelis) Freedom of speech is one of the basic democratic values. Media Freedom, Freedom of Opinion and Expression are fundamental principles of democratic society. Citizens of any country have the right to receive information from alternative sources. It is important that journalists in any country have the opportunity to do their job without fear of interference from the authorities. |
| #25 | 1/18/2021 | Martin Luther King Jr - Loving Your Enemies. “Now let me hasten to say that Jesus was very serious when he gave this command; he wasn’t playing. He realized that it’s hard to love your enemies. He realized that it’s difficult to love those persons who seek to defeat you, those persons who say evil things about you. He realized that it was painfully hard, pressingly hard. But he wasn’t playing. And we cannot dismiss this passage a... |
| #26 | 1/3/2021 | Actual Vote App Offers a Way to Protect Vote Count in Georgia (Steve Schneider) Two election watchdog apps are being deployed in Georgia for the Senate runoff races that can decide the legislative agenda in the new Congress. Actual Vote documents the vote count that is made public at polling stations when voting ends. Wanna Vote lets registered voters document their experience with voter suppression. |
| #27 | 12/22/2020 | Atlanta Mail Specialist Exposed Problems with Voter Roll Purge List (Steve Schneider) Last December, 22,000 purged voters were returned to the rolls a month after an Atlanta business owner researched the purge list and raised questions. Robert Gates told authorities about faulty practices by the Georgia Secretary of State's office. During an emergency federal court proceeding, the state announced it would reinstate the purged voters, but for reasons other than the ones Gates discovered. |
| #28 | 12/6/2020 | A Cultural Shift to Meet the Coronavirus Challenge
(Carmine Gorga, Ph.D.) The article calls for a shift of caring from finite property rights to infinite economic rights.
Everyone wants MORE property rights. Hence inequality; hence poverty.
Through economic rights - and responsibilities - we can create economic justice and economic freedom for all - MAGA People included.1 |
| #29 | 10/14/2020 | A Young Man Knows How to Make Voting Great Again (Steve Schneider) Chris Hollins is running the Nov. 3 election in Harris County, TX. He appeared Oct. 13, just hours ago, for an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show. He really cares about making voting convenient and POSSIBLE for people. Unfortunately, I could not find a link to the Maddow interview. But a link to a local television interview gives you an idea about Hollins, what he is doing, and what is possible. |
| #30 | 10/9/2020 | FDR's Last Speech -- An Extraordinarily Articulate Plea for Peace
(Karl Grossman) "The work, my friends, is peace. More than an end of this war, an end to the beginnings of all war." These were the words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the speech he would never give. It was scheduled to be made on the radio to a Jefferson Day Dinner on April 13, 1945. But he died on April 12th, a day after reviewing and making several changes in the final draft.1 |
