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Kosovo - Demonstrators Protest U.N. Plan

Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets of Pristina, Kosovo's capital, on Tuesday to protest the planned deployment of a European Union judicial mission that many ethnic Albanians fear will partition the new country.

A New Political Party Is Needed

Set aside any Obama euphoria you feel. The other important news is that third-party presidential candidates had a miserable showing this year, totaling just over one percent of the grand total with 1.5 million votes nationwide, compared to some 123 million votes for Barack Obama and John McCain.

RESISTANCE AS IF IT REALLY MATTERED: Now it's our turn

This man, responsible for the welfare of 2,000 people in his village, looked at me and graciously said what I'd heard so often from Iraqis, "I know there is a difference between the American people and your government." Then as his voice quaked and his eyes welled up he added, "But you say you live in a democracy. How can this be happening to us?"

Blogging Connects Women Across the World

October 21, 2008, Washington, DC: The Zonta Club of Washington and The Advocacy Project (AP) have launched a blog group to connect professional women in the Washington area with young American women volunteering for human rights overseas.

This innovative use of information technology was developed during the summer, when eight Zonta members in Washington decided to follow the blogs of graduate students serving as AP Peace Fellows in Serbia, Kosovo, Uganda, Jordan, El Salvador, Nepal and Kenya.

Putting the rights of nature in Ecuador's constitution

It sounds like a stunt by the San Francisco City Council. But Ecuador is engaged in nothing less than an effort to redefine the relationship between human beings and the natural world. And as crazy as it may seem, the movement to give nature legal rights didn't start in Ecuador's Amazon forest or its Galapagos Islands -- it started years ago in the United States, in cities and towns seeking to fight off coal mines, incinerators and factory farms. Aided by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in Pennsylvania, about a dozen municipalities have abandoned the old-fashioned way of halting development -- through the appeals process -- and are placing outright bans on environmentally disruptive activities.

Poisonous Plutocracy Pushes Economic Inequality

Americans must wake up and stop voting for the two-party plutocracy that is harming them.

What Are We Waiting For?

Obama promises change, but not deep political reforms

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Nader is so much more than the premier consumer advocate; he keeps fighting for American democracy.

The Evolution of Evil | The Smirking Chimp

Beware, a global plutocracy is winning!

I am data; politicians micro-target me to get elected

To our presidential candidates, I am not a human being: I am a set of data points, one of about 168 million sets of data points collected by both the Democratic and Republican national committees. Presidential candidates will base their direct-mail, push-poll, robo-call and volunteers-knocking-on-my-door messages on computerized analyses of me as data. I will be micro-targeted by candidates campaign organizations for the sole purpose of producing a vote...

Shareholder rights wronged

This week's extraordinary decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission to let companies deny shareholders access to annual proxy ballots is another victory for the bosses and companies like General Motors and Bank of America to block democracy.

The Grand Delusion

Keith Olbermann was praised when he called the Bush presidency a criminal conspiracy. That missed the larger truth. The whole two-party political system is a criminal conspiracy hiding behind illusion induced delusion.

Real heroes refuse to shut up and sing

'The US vs. John Lennon' chronicles the egregious lengths the US gov't went to in order to silence an artist who had the audacity to speak out. Of course, Lennon came from an age when artists did that sort of thing, and he wasn't the only one to get on the authorities' nerves. But we don't live in that world anymore...

Are Americans smart enough to vote?

In order to bring a little more depth to this debate I thought I'd do some research to discover whether or not the nation's citizens are under-informed and, if so, to what degree. I've decided to present some interesting poll results. Here's what I discovered...

Voting as Political Narcotic - Associated Content

Just imagine that very few Americans show up to vote in 2008 because that are totally fed up with the corrupt political system!