Liberal Democracy

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Electoral democracy: What future?

Middle East Online 04 Nov 2021

... and generalization of education and the growth of the level of modern awareness among the public will end up with imposing the will of representative democracy, renewing institutions and opening new horizons for electoral democracy and liberating it from the domination of money.

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Abiy Ahmed: from peacemaker to warmonger

Business Day 04 Nov 2021

At the time, he was hailed in the US and EU as the best hope for bringing democracy and a market economy to Ethiopia, as well as to spread stability in a turbulent neighbourhood that runs from Sudan to Somalia ... “While he was invoking these liberal ideas for the economy and democracy, he was also consolidating power.”.

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Liberals too ‘afraid to fight the culture wars’

The Daily Telegraph Australia 04 Nov 2021

‘in this country, this liberal democracy that is the great country we live in, we are all equal’.

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Three Great Transitions in the Chinese economy

People Daily 04 Nov 2021

Interesting sign of the times. Anyone who reads the economics section of a Western newspaper for a moment will have the impression that the Chinese economy is on the verge of collapse ... Western analysts have not learnt from their own mistakes ... As for themselves, liberal democracy and economic development are two sides of the same coin ... (Web editor ... .

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Mainstream Media Has Abandoned the American Working Class: Newsweek Editor

The Epoch Times 03 Nov 2021

... the American working class and catered only to the liberal, highly educated elite ... She calls herself a lefty and a liberal ... How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy” was published.

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Is Patriotism Worth Preserving?

Black Hills Pioneer 03 Nov 2021

It is not simply loyalty to the people of the United States but loyalty to a particular constitutional order, what we call a liberal democracy or a constitutional democracy ... It is not simply loyalty to the people of the United States but loyalty to a particular constitutional order, what we call a liberal democracy or a constitutional democracy.

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Welcome to the American Century

Scheerpost 03 Nov 2021

an enemy ... China ... We would bring “liberation” and “democracy” to the Afghans and the Iraqis, among others, and glory to this land. In the end, of course, we brought them little but pain, , and death, while bringing American democracy itself, with all its failings, to the autocratic edge of hell in a world of “fraudulent” elections and coupsters galore.

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Food, Dependency and Dispossession. “Corporate Consolidation of the Entire Global Agri-food Chain”

GlobalResearch 03 Nov 2021

how is an inability to determine your own economic policies and surrendering food security to outside forces in any way liberating? ... Democracy ... But ‘smashing the heads of farmers’ is symbolic of how near-totalitarian ‘liberal democracies’ the world over now regard many within their own populations.

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Letter | Trump extremist GOP? No insurrection occurred

Santa Cruz Sentinel 02 Nov 2021

This is in response to the letter, “Trump GOP is not ‘meaningful opposition.’” I’ll start that an insurrection against our American democracy was actively supported by extremist Republicans. An insurrection did not occur, even though a liberal faction of our population tried desperately to make it appear it had.

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Return to authoritarianism fuels anger in the Arab world

The North Africa Journal 02 Nov 2021

A military coup in Sudan has dealt another blow to democracy in the Arab world, months after a power grab by the president of Tunisia, where the 2011 Arab uprisings were born ... But others say it is too early to write the obituary of liberal democracy in the Arab world.

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COLUMN: The median voter

The Lawton Constitution 02 Nov 2021

If you had a scale that went from 100% conservative to 100% liberal then you could put voters based on their personal ideologies and at one point there would be the median, or middle voter ... That gives that voter a lot of power in a democracy because majority rules.

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Big Tech’s power must come with greater responsibility

New Statesman 02 Nov 2021

As a result, people are now both better informed and more easily misled ... laws ... We live in a liberal democracy.;This is why it’s right that our elected representatives should get to establish the principles that regulate the online world. But we also live in a liberal economy, and the private sector, of course, has a role to play too ... .

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Introducing Nine New Newsletters

The Atlantic 02 Nov 2021

Here are our new newsletter offerings ... Tom Nichols’s Peacefield In Peacefield, an international-affairs expert, former political staffer, and native son of Massachusetts writes about America’s place in the world, with a special focus on challenges to the survival of liberal democracy in the United States ... The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy ... .

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Why we founded openDemocracy 20 years ago – and why it worked

Open Democracy 02 Nov 2021

Second, we recognised that there were both huge problems and potential for democracy, as a consequence of ‘globalisation’, which needed real debate ... Brushing aside its early expression in Tony Benn’s call for democracy, Labour’s leading intellectual Tony Crosland dismissed “participation” and “liberation”.

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Shribman: Breaking up is hard to do, eh?

Herald and News 02 Nov 2021

The result ... “The rise of illiberal nationalism and authoritarian rule, the declining self-confidence of liberal democracy, the return of protectionism and trading blocs, runaway nuclear proliferation, global health and climate crises — these are issues that countries such as Canada must now confront if superpowers cannot or will not.” ... Trump ... Mr ... ....