Democracy Promotion

Barack Is Just As Weak As Hillary
Not many of Barack's supporters know about the Democratic Republic of the Congro Relief, Security and Democracy Promotion Act obviously, or else they would've mentioned it when faced with the Name One Game that became so popular. ...

Tibet Uprising and US Government Grants
Most of these efforts are branded as 'humanitarian' or as 'democracy promotion'. A 2007 report (pdf) by the Congressional Research Service lists various US organisations that currently provide US taxpayer dollars to Tibetan exile ...

10 Rules for Understanding Civil Society Imperialism
... funded by the US Congress’s National Endowment for Democracy, the US State Department’s USAID, Britain’s Westminster Foundation for Democracy, Germany’s Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and other Western “democracy promotion” agencies, ...

Bush’s War: America’s Power, Prestige And Popularity In Decline
Instead, the invasion “set it back in multiple senses,” said Larry Diamond, a Stanford University expert on democracy promotion and author of the new book, “The Spirit of Democracy.” “Number one, it didn’t go well,” he said. ...

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
By eschewing democracy promotion and an indefinite American military occupation, Baker-Hamilton would have been a rebuke to the war's post-hoc rationalizations (ie Bush's legacy), but at least it would have set American strategy on its ...

Global Warming Hurts Our Feelings
The Minnesota Soybean Growers Association and the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council, which funds university research into soybean use, cut off the funds after university scientist David Tilman published a study which ...

The Economics of Venezuelan Socialism
The government has announced an extension of direct democracy, via the promotion of grassroots communal councils, and is also discussing workers’ councils in workplaces across the country to enable working people to exercise control ...

Singapore is still not ready to be a democracy
Everytime I read about Dr Chee's attempts to wake the rest of us Singaporeans up and start caring about democracy, I always return to the Matrix trilogy as it is the main movie that really woke me up to the society that Singapore really ...

Cook County Corruption Chronicals:Part 8
First, illegal patronage has enabled the hiring and promotion of unqualified or lesser qualified candidates. An often overlooked consequence of this is the impact on the workplace and the working conditions of those employees who must ...

Chaos-In-Motion: Where are the Middle-Eastern Conflicts Going
It has taken until no —five years into the Bush presidency - for the US to commit any serious money (6 million) for Iranian democracy promotion, and the State Department has blocked efforts on Capitol Hill to spend even more. ...