1. Competition for Main Street
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...d to deal with it smartly, not to mention wisely. We have a brain-dead lame duck in the White House. The two presidential candidates are trapped by events, trying to say something relevant without get...

2. Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
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...THE SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling ...

3. Heroes of Human Rights and Democracy in China
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...abor Union of China; and Yang Jianli, a Chinese democracy activist recently released from prison, who now is president of Initiatives for China. NED also honored the life-long contributions of one of...

4. When Money Is Speech, Speech Is Not Free
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...y” representatives. Ironically, the candidate who recently abandoned public financing for the general presidential election benefited directly from the amendment in 2004. Barack Obama was able ...

5. Bolivian Political Crisis
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   By Jim Shultz    In La Paz today, President Morales and two key state governors, Rubén Costas of Santa Cruz and Mario Cossío of Tarija, signed an agreement to beg

6. Xbox 360 to be usead as electronic voting system ?
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Americans will soon be able to use Xbox Live to register to vote in the November presidential elections. Acording with the site specialized in eletronic democracy - http://www.e-democrat

7. Saakashvili?s Statement on Russia? Action
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Here is the written statement by the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, concerning Russia’s recognition of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent of Georgi

8. "Obama - Biden - Laden" or "Osama Bin Laden"?
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...ds of american families. I really believe that, only for it, Mr. Obama should be kicked from any serious presidential race, and more than that, sued for an act that crosses the border of mere immo...

9. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
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.... However, even as concern about the financial markets pushed share prices worldwide into slump on 9 August, President Bush used his White House press conference to comment on the issue. He said ...

10. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
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by Sidney Blumenthal    President Bush's political strategy at home is an implicit if unintended admission of the failure of his military strategy in Iraq and toward terrorism generally

11. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...uela, as many like to observe, tongue in cheek, is now a "wonderland." The rhetoric emanating from President Hugo Chávez is of revolution, socialism and, as he declared in a televisio...

12. Sudanese adrift in Israel
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...n, and of opening a new tented wing in one of the detention facilities in the desert. On 1 July, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert are said to have sealed a pl...

13. Racism and Democracy: 50 years since Little Rock integration
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...School's 50th anniversary this week with a series of events culminating with a ceremony featuring former President Bill Clinton. For three weeks in September 1957, Little Rock was the focus of a ...