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Individualism Run Amok

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Criticism, Success, Fame, Free-Market, Individualism, Fortune, Democracy, Self-Loathing, The Balanced Life, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I was surprised to read the other day that in some cultures if you are asked 'how are you?' the answer never begins with the pronoun 'I' but rather with a 'we' as in 'we are fine or not fine'.

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Vietnam Man Jailed For Democracy Slogan

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Vietnam, Hanoi-Vietnam, Vietnam Democracy, Democracy, Hanoi, Viet Nam, Haiphong, World News

A court in Vietnam has sentenced a man to three years in prison for hanging a banner over a bridge in Hanoi which called for multi-party democracy....

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Bloomberg Donates $65M to Needy Campaign Consultants

Jarrett Murphy | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Anthony Weiner, Term Limits, William Thompson, Mayor, Wealth, Michael Bloomberg, Campaign Finance, Democracy, New York City, 2009 New York City Mayoral Election, Bill Thompson, New York News
Jarrett Murphy

Bloomberg is on pace to spend $118 million on this year's race and over a quarter of a billion dollars in declared campaign expenditures on his three runs for office.

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreclosures, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Larry Summers, Globalization, Economic Bill of Rights, Republic Windows and Doors, Goldman Sachs, Capitalism: A Love Story, General Motors, Dennis Kucinich, General Motors Bankruptcy, Roger & Me, Plutonomy, Financial Deregulation, Deindustrialization, Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Flint, Democracy, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Oligarchy, Nafta, Barack Obama, Sicko, Robert Rubin, Glass-Steagall Act, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Alan Greenspan, Business News
Anis Shivani

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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What Do Social Media and the Printing Press Have in Common?

Jenny Darroch | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, Democracy, Marketing Communications, Marketing Strategy, Mass Media, Chief Marketing Officers, Media News
Jenny Darroch

Social media is not as a replacement for traditional media but should be seen as a compliment, as part of an integrated marketing communications strategy.

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U2's Music and Mission and My Kid's First Rock Concert

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fedex, Social Justice, Washington, Music, Campaign, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Power, Desmond Tutu, Aung San Suu Kyi, Rock Band, President Bush, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Justice, Love, Human Rights, Democracy, Africa, Activism, Politics, Willie Williams, 360, Aung San Suu, Myanmar, Amazing Grace, Teenager, Burma, U2, U2 Tour, Beautiful Day, Singing, Partisan Politics, D.C., Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Rock and Roll, Entertainment News
Jim Wallis

What I love about a U2 concert, headlined by the Irish tenor with the sunglasses, is how it achieves such a powerful combination of art and social justice, music and message; and all with such fun.

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Lots of Content Is Good for Democracy

Charles Warner | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Flickr, Twitter, Bloggers, The Lost Art of Political Argument, Chris Lasch, The Lost Symbol, Youtube, Democracy, Facebook, Journalism, Dan Brown, Media News
Charles Warner

The Internet's explosive growth has led to such a proliferation of content that it is now virtually infinite. To say that "content is king" in today's world is like saying "a grain of sand is precious."

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No Democrats! No Chocolate!

Susan L. Travis | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women and Politics, Politics, Ruidoso, Democracy, Discrimination, Oktoberfest, Chocolate, Politics News
Susan L. Travis

In the New Mexico village of Ruidoso, a conflict between the local chapter of the Democratic Women and the annual Oktoberfest organizers is brewing.

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What Have We Done to Democracy?

Arundhati Roy | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Elections, Democracy, Democracy Promotion, India Pakistan Relations, Pakistan Democracy, Kashmir, Booker Prize, World News
Arundhati Roy

What happens now that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximizing profit?

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Improving Democracy

Navi Pillay | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Democracy, Human Rights, United Nations, Un-High-Commissioner-for-Human-Rights, World News
Navi Pillay

Chipping away at the impediments to democracy is long, slow, often unglamorous work, but when it produces results in the form of a freely and fairly elected government it is priceless.

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The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whiskey Rebellion, Barter System, Stockholder, Marijuana, Prohibition, Feds, Newport, Civil War, Infrastructure, Moonbow, Grass, Occupational Safety, Nancy Pelosi, Environmental Movements, Coal Mine, Right to Vote, Mohawk, Lawless, Bill Tweed, Boss System, Indefeasible, Beverly Hillbillies, Hung, Ca, Louisville, George Washington, Appalachian, Civic, Tennessee, Census Worker, Mountaintop Removal, New York City Boss William Tweed, Civil Rights, Census Taker, Mystery, Kentucky Constitution, Second American Revolution, Food Safety, Pot, U.S. Constitution, Pittsburgh, Public School System, Declaration of Independence, Indiana Constitution, Cumberland Plateau, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inalienable, Daniel Boone National Forest, Bill Sparkman, Bluegrass, Ohio, Slavery, Lexington, Illinois, Coalmine, Federal Agents, Women’s, Appalachia, Hemp, Public Health, Daniel Boone U.S. Congress, Irish Immigrants, Democracy, Middle Class Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, Mountain, Capitalism, Bossism, Meth, Consumer, Murder, Labor, Southeastern Kentucky, Prison, Oxycontin, Big Coal, 1791, Fbi, Self-Organizing, Indiana, Hanged, Politics News
Gail McGowan Mellor

The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.

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Ending Minority Rule in California: One Sentence Can Do It

George Lakoff | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Majority Vote, Democracy, California, California Two Thirds Vote, California Politics, Politics News
George Lakoff

California is in deep trouble because it has a dysfunctional system of government. Much of the problem can be solved by turning "two-thirds" into "majority" in two places in the Constitution.

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The Only Way Out For Honduras

Adam Isacson | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras, Obama Latin America Policy, Democracy, Civil-Military Relations, Manuel Zelaya, Foreign Policy, World News
Adam Isacson

The amount of international pressure must increase now that Zelaya is back. And it must include absolute clarity that an election held under the coup government's auspices will be considered illegitimate.

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Why Health Care Reform May Kill the USA

Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Constitutional Law, John Boehner, Maturity, Health Care Reform, Treason, Democracy, U.S. Constitution, Pbs Newshour, Constitution, John Wayne, Rebellion, Health Care, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

My waking nightmare was prompted by House Minority Leader John Boehner's appearance on the PBS NewsHour Thursday night. Why is he speaking so positively of "rebellion"?

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Losing the News: A Great Book

Diane Francis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Blogs, Politics, Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, New Media, Death of Newspapers, Democracy, Media, News, Blogging, Journalism, Citizen Journalists, Broadcast TV, Alex Jones, Business News
Diane Francis

Alex Jones writes that the implosion of the business model for traditional media is creating a vacuum in the type of news gathering, analysis or revelatory investigation which is in the public interest.

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Did Obama's Address Remind Anyone Else of the the Season Opener of Glee?

Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Glee, Birthers, Congress, Obama, Democracy, Federalist 10, Joe Biden, Tv, Federalist Papers, Democratization, Rep. Joe Wilson, Barack Obama, Government, House, Politics, Senate, Lech Walesa, Members of Congress, Middle East, Representative Democracy, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Wilson, Joint Session of Congress, Health Care Reform, High School, American Politics, Health Reform, Health Care, Health, Politics News
Elizabeth Rigby

The partisan dynamics currently at play on Capitol Hill resemble a high school full of cliques, power differentials, and image-conscious participants more than a democratic problem-solving body.

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One Year of the Zardari Presidency

Farahnaz Ispahani | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan, Yusuf Raza Gilani, Ppp, Benazir Bhutto, Bhutto Pakistan, Afghanistan, Quaid-I-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Benazir Bhutto Assassinated, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Imf, Democracy, Benazir Bhutto Killed, World News
Farahnaz Ispahani

A year after the election of Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's march toward democracy continues, and the decision to elect President Zardari is proving to have been the correct one.

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Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Burma, Robert Amsterdam, Rule of Law, International Law, Democracy, Iran, Due Process, Detainees, Aung San Suu Kyi, Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Human Rights, Courts, Political Prisoners, Justice, Asia, Yevgeny Zhovtis, China, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Robert Amsterdam

It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.

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Green Is the New Black

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Street Fashion, Iran's Disputed Election, Social Networking, Internet, Today Show, Youtube, Iranian Revolution, Democracy, Fashion, Film, Facebook, World Wide Web, Iranian Election, World Cup, Style News
Charlotte Safavi

Ultimately, those who embraced green in clothing or fashion accessories were rejecting the status quo. Fashion sometimes has a way of getting under the skin.

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Rage Against Science and Reason: Fear Continues as a Tool of Distraction

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peter-Gleick, John Holdren, Water, Science, Democracy, Media, Health Care, Mccarthyism, Politics News
J. Carl Ganter

Dr. Peter Gleick rolls up his sleeves in his latest post about science, fact and rationality.

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Save The Children

Rabbi Jennifer Krause | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sally Struthers, President Obama, Xbox 360, Democracy, All in the Family, Save the Children, PlayStation 3, Obama School Speech, Politics News
Rabbi Jennifer Krause

Whether you are for or against the President's fully transparent, pre-released address and accompanying, optional food-for-thought exercise, you should do something truly worthy of your time and energy: talk to your kids.

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Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar Court Accepts Suu Kyi Appeal

AP | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Suu Kyi Trial, Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar Junta, Burma, Suu Kyi, Yangon, Junta, Suu Kyi Trial 2009, Myanmar, World News

YANGON, Myanmar — A Myanmar court agreed Friday to hear an appeal by detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of the criminal conviction that...

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Another Baby Step on Honduras

Adam Isacson | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Democracy, Obama Latin America Policy, Honduras, Civil-Military Relations, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Manuel Zelaya, Foreign Policy, World News
Adam Isacson

To argue about whether the deposition was a coup, whether Manuel Zelaya is a capable leader, or whether this is about Hugo Chávez's influence, misses the point entirely.

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Kazakhstan's Human Rights Drop Through the Floor

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Gas, Foreign Affairs, Rule of Law, Robert Amsterdam, International Law, Democracy, United States, Barack Obama, Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, Human Rights, Central Asia, Oil, Osce, Political Prisoners, Freedom of Press, Europe, Yevgeny Zhovtis, World News
Robert Amsterdam

I fear that we might just see exactly how many barrels of oil a given dictator needs to export in order to flaunt the law.

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Holbrooke Compares Afghan Vote Fraud To Minn. Senate Race

Talking Points Memo | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Minnesota Senate Race, Democracy, Afghanistan Election, Richard Holbrooke, Al Franken, Politics News

In a press conference in Paris, U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke downplayed the issue of fraud in the Afghanistan election -- even...

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