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the Democrats of the Arab World:

Edit Topix 28 Aug 2016
From Political Islam to Muslim Democracy . The Ennahda Party and the Future of Tunisia Ennahda, one of the most influential political parties in the Arab world and a major force in Tunisia's emergence as a democracy, recently announced a historic transition. Ennahda has moved beyond its origins as an Islamist party and has fully embraced a new identity as a party of Muslim democrats ... ....

Corbyn ally calls for Sir Richard Branson to be stripped of knighthood

Edit ITV 28 Aug 2016
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell attacked the business tycoon, saying he wanted to "undermine our democracy" after Virgin Trains released footage disputing Mr Corbyn's claims about overcrowding on its services ... Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Mr McDonnell said Sir Richard was a "tax exile who thinks he can try and intervene and undermine our democracy" ... He added....

Modi root of all problems: Arvind Kejriwal

Edit The Times of India 28 Aug 2016
NEW DELHI ... He claimed that Maliwal would soon be arrested ... He accused the LG of "subverting" democracy to protect his own "chair" ... "CAG vehemently refuses to audit expenses of the Centre and states ... "If this is 'least interference', then what is 'high interference'? Shameful subversion of democracy to protect chair." ... This is against democracy, this is against people," he said, warning that otherwise Modi will lose the elections in 2019....

Trouble in Paradise

Edit BBC News 28 Aug 2016
You don't normally get advance warning of an attempt to topple a government. Efforts to oust leaders are risky undertakings and plotters usually keep their underhand schemes very secret ... But not a great place to be a journalist ... She was here in 2008 when more than thirty years of corrupt autocracy finally gave way to democracy ... The Maldives' brief moment as a model Islamic democracy was not to last, however ... We had to be careful ... ....

Neoliberalism: we need to understand just how this pattern of inequality began

Edit The Guardian 28 Aug 2016
There are causes that go back beyond 1972 ... Martin Lyster. Oxford ... Yet the share of GDP in leading democracies taken by the state in the 1950s was about half that of the share taken by the state from the 1970s onwards, up to today ... Dr Denis Macshane. London ...   ... Mike O’Donnell ... Its adherents took advantage of major upheavals to undermine democracy and turn economies neoliberal in Indonesia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Russia and Iraq ... ....

Where do Clinton and Trump stand on U.S. intervention?

Edit Denver Post 28 Aug 2016
AP photos. Donald Trump is usually described as a champion of non-intervention and Hillary Clinton the opposite. What should be the U.S. role in the world? ... As both presidential candidates have spoken on the topic, it is essential to review their positions ... Just as Trump has questioned the U.S ... power to spread democracy and freedom — and it is widely acknowledged that America is already spread too thin to be effective in many places....

The reverse exodus of Pakistan's Afghan refugees

Edit BBC News 28 Aug 2016
Pakistan's request for all three million Afghan refugees within its borders to leave is causing chaos on its borders and plunging families into uncertainty. Many Afghans have spent all their lives in Pakistan. The BBC's M Ilyas Khan reports from Peshawar ... He fled to Pakistan in the winter of 1979, days after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan and helicopter gunships started hovering over his village in Baghlan ... It will take time." ... ....

Florida’s 23rd CD Primary: Professor Tim Canova Or Former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz?

Edit Inquisitr 28 Aug 2016
Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned as chair of the Democratic National Committee after the scandalous DNC email leak showed that she favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the Democratic nominating competition while she was obligated by her position to remain neutral ... We are fighting for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, the future of democracy and #ProgressForAll. https.//t.co/GlVRPpgWem ... Morgan declined the deal....

Does a Major Discovery Show the Greeks Secretly Sacrificed a Teenage Boy to Zeus?

Edit The Daily Beast 28 Aug 2016
On a mountain top in southern Greece, in a nearly 3000 year old religious site, archeologists have made a macabre discovery. human remains nestled inside an altar dedicated to Zeus. The burial is unprecedented ... The discovery was made on Mount Lykaion in southwestern Arcadia ... the burial of a human being ... And for many people, including the founding fathers, the Greeks are seen as the authors of democracy, culture, and civilization ... 1 ... ....

Crimea: Authorities Detain Leading Tatar Activist (Freedom House)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Aug 2016
(Source. Freedom House) ... 'Persecution of Crimean Tatar culture remains pervasive inside the peninsula, and this trumped up detention hearkens back to the Soviet-era practice of silencing dissidents by confining them in psychiatric hospitals.'. Background. ... Freedom House is an independent watchdog organization that supports democratic change, monitors the status of freedom around the world, and advocates for democracy and human rights....

If an American PR Whiz Had Not Helped Yanukovych, Would Ukraine Still Be Intact?

Edit Topix 27 Aug 2016
A British scholar wrote an eye-opening book a decade ago on the tactics that candidates in the former Soviet Union used to win elections. His premise was that election-campaign managers in the former Soviet Union used an array of tricks far vaster and dirtier than campaign managers in the West to assure client victories ... ....

The Republic of Moldova: 25 years of independence

Edit Deutsche Welle 27 Aug 2016
On August 27, 1991, while the Soviet Union was in the process of dissolving, the then-Soviet Republic of Moldova declared its independence. A quarter of a century later, the country is still looking for a path to Europe ... ....

FEATURE：Goat polo, tug-of-war as Nomad Games approach

Edit Taipei Times 27 Aug 2016
After several minutes of shrieks and equine snorts, a rider from ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan’s national team emerges clutching the carcass, triggering a frantic pursuit ... PRESERVING CULTURE. For a poor country like Kyrgyzstan that has faced two revolutions and oscillated between democracy and authoritarianism in its 25 years of independence, the Nomad Games have become a point of national pride ... COMPELLING SPECTACLE ... ....
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