Democracy Promotion

Black Days for the Dalai Lama
... base in his criticisms, but he did perform the valuable service of documenting the degree to which the NGOs that make up the TPUM have been playing footsie with the neocons in the US government and taking democracy promotion money. ...

Good Morning, my name is Barack Obama, and I am not going anywhere ...
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and ...

Raconteurs Rush To Market Next Week
The Raconteurs would rather this release not be defined by its first week sales, pre-release promotion or by someone defining it FOR YOU before you get to hear it. SOURCE: Billboard.

Cook County Corruption Chronicals:Part 9
A claimant from another large department applied for promotion to a supervisory position. She was selected for the position and took on the additional job duties, but did not receive an increase in terms of title and pay increase. ...

HENYOISM: Eh-hum # 90
A goal of democracy promotion in the Middle East, after all, is to encourage Arab countries to become economically and politically integrated with the rest of the world. What better way to do so than by encouraging Arab companies to ...

Israelated - English Israel blogs - 50 new articles
In other words, it is until the individual in any society aspires and then embraces democratic values on the personal level, one can really talk about democracy as a guiding principle of this or that society. ...

SOUTH AFRICA: Inter-Parliamentary Union to address poverty
The IPU contributes to the defence and promotion of human rights, an essential factor of parliamentary democracy and development and contributes to better knowledge of the working of representative institutions and to the strengthening ...

March 17 Notes
Democracy and Development (Iran as case study: 1950s legacy—martial law, rigged elections, growing popular discontent; Kennedy and the Third World: counterinsurgency, promotion of democracy—Latin America, Vietnam; Iran as model for ...

Doing What It Takes
It vexes me to no end that the progressive/anti-war/anti-globalization/'liberal' public has effectively NO popular media channel, barring perhaps Link TV, Democracy Now which are severly compromised avenues. ...

Depression, child-rearing in the 21st century
For example, computer-screen icons could be detracting from abstract ideas such as democracy or love, and it may be that we’re breeding children to think literally and not in the abstract. It’sa gratifying, easy-sensation, ‘yuk-and-wow’ ...