Home > Keywords > Politics > Democracy

Democracy

  • People Lets Use the Internet to Build a True World Wide Democracy NOW!
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    5 comments

    As a result of THE LACK of PERSONAL ETHICAL VALUES we can see what the POWER of UNLIMITED CAPITAL and CONTROL of a arsenal of NUCLEAR WEAPONS can do to ones personal values and thus their expressed behaviors. Look at the background and the examples that are held as "noble" and "just" in the so called political leaders speeches. Are they real values of people. Are actual issued discused, or is a performance of "implied elements of FEAR" being presented by what seems to be a stately, older, (…)

  • Flip Flopper Alert: The Bush Administration Was For Amnesty International Before It Was Against It
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    The Bush Administration Was For Amnesty International Before It Was Against It
    Tonight, Vice President Cheney will appear on CNN’s Larry King Live and reportedly condemn a recent Amnesty International report that faults the U.S. for its treatment of detainees in the war on terror. Cheney has said:
    For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don’t take them seriously.
    Other Administration officials have similarly (…)

  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Response to President Bush
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    AI Index: AMR 51/087/2005 (Public) News Service No: 149 31 May 2005
    USA: Response to President Bush
    President Bush again failed to address longstanding concerns regarding US detention policies and practices in the context of the "war on terror", Amnesty International said in response to his comments today.
    At Guantánamo, the US has operated an isolated prison camp in which people are confined arbitrarily, held virtually incommunicado, without charge, trial or access to due process. (…)

  • State Sponsored Terrorism: Operation Northwoods the Cartoon
    1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    Twenty-five international cartoonists have researched, written, drawn and laid bare the truth on George W. Bush, his family’s dynasty, their sordid business connections and various wars, and the Bush regime itself—in 24 humorous, witty, acerbic, and factual chapters.
    A primer to Bushian corruption and malfeasance, The Bush Junta includes chapters on Gulf wars I and II, the S&L scandal, the 2000 presidential coup, the Bush record on the environment and civil liberties, September 11, (…)

  • Governments betraying human rights says Amnesty International Annual Report
    28 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Governments are betraying their promise of a world order based on human rights and are pursuing a dangerous new agenda, said Amnesty International today as it launched its annual report.
    Speaking at the launch of the Amnesty International Report 2005, the organisation’s Secretary General Irene Khan said that governments had failed to show principled leadership and must be held to account.
    "Governments are betraying their promises on human rights. A new agenda is in the making with the (…)

  • Amnesty Takes Aim at ’Gulag’ in Guantanamo
    27 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    LONDON - Amnesty International castigated the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay as a failure Wednesday, calling it "the gulag of our time" in the human rights group’s harshest rebuke yet of American detention policies. ADVERTISEMENT
    Amnesty urged Washington to shut down the prison at the U.S. Navy’s base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some 540 men are held on suspicion of links to Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network. Some have been jailed for more than three (…)

  • GULAG.
    26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    I would just like to draw readers attention to the annual report of"Amnesty International.
    "What sad times for all humankind that we are at this level and seem to have lost even the veneer of civilization.
    No one should be smug enough to say "It ain,t me"The politcians and leaders were elected by the everyday person.
    It does look dark ahead.

  • FBI asks US Congress for power to seize documents
    25 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI on Tuesday asked the U.S. Congress for sweeping new powers to seize business or private records, ranging from medical information to book purchases, to investigate terrorism without first securing approval from a judge.
    Valerie Caproni, FBI general counsel, told the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee her agency needed the power to issue what are known as administrative subpoenas to get information quickly about terrorist plots and the activities of foreign (…)

  • Documents Obtained by ACLU Expose FBI and Police Targeting of Political Groups
    20 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    The American Civil Liberties Union charged today that the FBI and local police are engaging in intimidation based on political association and are improperly investigating law-abiding human rights and advocacy groups, according to documents obtained through a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. ACLU affiliates today filed FOIA requests seeking similar documents in ten states.
    ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit and FOIA Requests to Uncover More Files
    WASHINGTON — The American (…)

  • Revenge of the Sith parallels current events: Corrupt Senate gives away freedoms to wannabe dictator
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    7 comments

    "This is how liberty dies — to thunderous applause."
    So observes Queen Amidala of Naboo as the galactic senate grants dictator-to-be Palpatine sweeping new powers in his crusade against the Jedi in the final "Star Wars" movie opening this week.
    It’s just one of several lines in "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith," that reveal the movie to be more than just a sci-fi blockbuster and gargantuan cultural phenomenon.
    "Revenge of the Sith," it turns out, can also be seen as a (…)