... and the U.S.’s disproportionately high prison population to the relationship between democracy and a propensity for taking lives. It’s that latter one that caught my eye. Europeans ... Sure it’s not surprising coming from Europeans, but it did prompt thoughts of that other backwater of democracy gone awry — Afghanistan. The piece goes on to list four factors that went into ...

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... by emphasizing, “we need to launch modernization and renovation of the entire industrial base.” Perhaps, it required a few years before Medvedev gathered the experience and power to undertake confronting serious problems of Russia that include the need to practice democracy rather than giving it the Putin lip service. Who knows, perhaps Medvedev will be the 21st century Gorbachev!

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 13 November 2009 I was delighted to be invited to discuss Guantánamo on Democracy Now! this morning, just an hour after the story first broke that the Obama administration is preparing to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other prisoners to the US mainland to face trials in federal court for their

... other members, is considered a representative of the whole people. This is what the prevailing traditional democracy requires. The masses are completely isolated from the representative and he, in ... the masses the path upon which they can advance from the age of dictatorship to that of genuine democracy. This new theory is based on the authority of the people, without representation or deputation. ...