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Democracy Now! | EXCLUSIVE: DEMOCRACY
NOW! Confronts Wesley Clark Over His
Bombing Of Civilians, Use Of Cluster
Bombs And Depleted Uranium And The
Bombing Of Serb Television
Democracy Now! | EXCLUSIVE: DEMOCRACY
NOW! Confronts Wesley Clark Over His
Bombing Of Civilians, Use Of Cluster
Bombs And Depleted Uranium And The
Bombing Of Serb Television
01/27/2004 11:30 AMDemocracy Now! Exclusive: Wesley Clark Admits Targeting Civilians In
Yugoslavia [audio/video] ..
Listen/Watch/Read
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the democracy of the web
the democracy of the web
07/17/2004 01:08 PMSo many reasons to love Amazon and Google, but here's another.
Robert Greenwald's
film,
OutFOXed, has been out
for a week. It is the #1 ranked DVD at
Amazon, and the first relevant "Murdoch" on
Google
.
Yay for democracy
Yay for democracy
02/01/2005 09:09 PMHooray for the elections in Iraq! The accounts are moving. For
example, from the Boston Globe: Wamidh Imad al-Zubaidi, an engineer,
almost decided not to vote after death threats against would-be voters
circulated in his mixed Sunni and Shi'ite neighborhood, Zayouna. Then,
he said, he remembered his brother, who was executed for opposing
Saddam Hussein's regime. ''I feel a power inside myself, and there is
a voice telling me, this should not happen to my son or to any Iraqi.
I have to prevent this dictatorship from returning to Iraq," he said,
adding that he braved the polls with his...
Democracy Now
Democracy Now
05/09/2004 11:26 AM"We wonder how those who, rightly, complain about the American
mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, can blithely consign the entire Iraqi
population to the likely prospect of a horrific civil war and the
brutal dictatorship that would
follow."
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Democracy
Democracy
12/27/2004 07:59 PM
Updat
e from Holland. After the filmmaker Theo van Gogh's murder by
Mohammed Bouyeri, the Dutch creed of tolerance has come under siege.
Little d democracy
Little d democracy
01/27/2004 07:33 PMNote: Contains completely partisan Deanism... I spent the day in
Exeter, yet another picture perfect New Hampshire town, alternating
between standing outside holding Dean signs and sitting in the
unheated Town Hall, checking off voters on the Dean supporter list.
Then, at 5pm, it was back to the Portsmouth HQ, phoning people to urge
them to vote. In short, I spent the day being a little-d democrat.
This is the real thing: American democracy. People reduced to their
singular equality. Each one of them nuts in her or his own way. With
the kids in their winter caps with animal...
Democracy By Obscurity
Democracy By Obscurity
08/23/2004 02:21 PMIt turns out that, not only are the makers of electronic voting
machines practicing security by obscurity,
those who certify the machines are
just as secretive. Call it democracy by obscurity. The
certification companies, who are hired by the e-voting machine
companies (conflict of interest?) won't reveal what they do to test
the machines or the results of any such tests. So, while the e-voting
machine companies continue to insist that they're secure, they won't
show us how the systems work for others to prove that its secure, and
the only people who are certifying the machines are secure are being
paid by the vendors themselves and won't reveal their testing methods
or results. It's the "just trust us" form of counting votes.
Blast Off to Democracy!
Blast Off to Democracy!
07/11/2004 06:34 AMpartisan jab
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Democracy Redux
Democracy Redux
03/31/2005 02:34 PMWhat we may end up with as part of this push towards "democracy" in
the Middle East is civil war. Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine are
all on the brink of it now. Are we better off with this?
Democracy in danger?
Democracy in danger?
12/06/2003 02:12 PM"'There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious,
makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even
passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the
gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the
apparatus, and you've
got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the
machine will be prevented from working at all!"
Mario Savio - Founder of the Free Speech Movement.
Democracy is against Islam.
Democracy is against Islam.
03/23/2005 05:26 PM
Democracy is
kufr. (A 26-page PDF.) "The democracy which the Kaafir West
promotes in the Muslim countries is a system of Kufr. It has no
connection whatsoever with Islam. It completely contradicts the rules
of Islam..."
Lots of interesting reading at
1924.org. (Look for the
"PDF Version" links, they're a dim light gray in my
browser.)
Diebold for Democracy
Diebold for Democracy
07/23/2004 06:13 PMCreased and curled voting receipts, or the lack of them, may be the
hanging
chads of this year's elections.
"Democracy in Iraq"
"Democracy in Iraq"
03/22/2005 06:47 PMQuantifying democracy
Quantifying democracy
03/14/2005 05:40 PMJoi wonders if the world has gotten more democratic since 9/11, a
topic discussed at the Atocha memorial forum. Tough question. I think
I'd say: More democracies, less democratic. More voting, less
liberty....
Democracy Is Just Too Expensive
Democracy Is Just Too Expensive
05/04/2004 12:21 PMIt turns out, by the way, with all this talk about electronic voting
and how flimsy it is, that the federal commission tasked with making
sure that when you vote, it counts, is saying that
it's way too expensive for them to actually make sure
electronic voting works. Not only is the commission lacking
money, but it's lacking in any kind of authority to tell election
officials what to do. Those election officials have set up their own
volunteer group to discuss issues with electronic voting, but even
that's not binding in any way. In other words, right now, election
officials can pretty much do what they want when it comes to
electronic voting. Democracy, it appears, is just too expensive and
too complicated to do right.
About that budding democracy
About that budding democracy
03/29/2005 02:22 PMConservatives want to know why the mainstream media hasn't been more
sanguine on Iraq. Here's one reason.
Another kind of democracy.
Another kind of democracy.
02/01/2005 10:00 PMOn a day when the government is preaching the values of listening to
the people are they listening to the...
Digital Democracy
Digital Democracy
02/10/2004 02:53 AMThe O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference is off to the races with
an opening keynote by Dean architect (and now MSNBC commentator)
Joe
Trippi. Trippi made news by strongly hinting at returning to
the fray. "Maybe a website... I have a number of ideas," Trippi
offhandedly tossed off midway through a question and answer session...
"Extreme Democracy"
"Extreme Democracy"
08/12/2004 08:05 AMDemocracy is a conversation
Democracy is a conversation
03/19/2003 10:24 PM From William Du Bois, from a mailing list I'm on: Bush's Utopian Plan
for Peace and mine differ at the core. Hal Pepinsky, one of the
founders of peacemaking criminology, talks about the dynamics of
democracy and violence. He defines democracy as responsiveness —
we take each other into account. We may not change our agenda but we
take what the Other has to say into account. Violence is the opposite
of democracy. It is asserting your own will and refusing to take the
other into account......
the "democracy" that is Europe
the "democracy" that is Europe
03/14/2005 05:51 PMSo despite the fact that the EU Parliament
has rejected software patents for Europe, and despite the
fact that there is
not a
qualified majority of member states supporting it, the EU Council
has now
endorsed
their draft of the "Directive on the Patentability of
Computer-Implemented Inventions."
This struggle continues to astonish me. There's no good economic
evidence that software patents do more good than harm. That's the
reason the US should reconsider its software patent policy.
But why Europe would voluntarily adopt a policy that will only burden
its software developers and only benefit US interests is beyond me.
They call it a "democracy" that they're building in Europe. I don't
see it. Instead, they have created a government of bureaucrats, more
easily captured by special interests than anything in the US.
Postponing Democracy
Postponing Democracy
07/13/2004 03:39 AMWherein John Perry Barlow suggests that a major terrorist attack might
provide a pretext for the suspension of both the presidential
elections and our constitutional rights.
Democracy Through Technology
Democracy Through Technology
10/31/2003 07:27 PMBeltwayOutsider
writes in with a link to an MIT Tech Review story about a guy who,
just as an exercise, created various potential
scen
arios to increase the information a voter is aware of before
voting in an election. We're not talking about electronic voting
here, but changing some of the fundamental methods of deciding who
votes and how they vote. None of these plans is a "recommendation",
but, rather are designed to get people thinking beyond what they may
have considered before. People seem to get angry about his ideas, but
I'm not sure why. It actually wouldn't surprise me if his first
scenario came true - though, it would be an indication of how
intellectually lazy some of us had become. It's based on a little
agent that would monitor what you do and say online and then look at
the various candidates and proposals and suggest who and what you
should vote for. Obviously, people would have huge problems with
machines determining who you should vote for, but it is intriguing to
wonder if this would lead to elections that more accurately reflect
what the public really wants. Other scenarios are designed to push
more information into the hands of voters - and perhaps reward them
for understanding the issues. One would give voters extra votes if
they first prove they understand an issue, while another would force
the person to prove that a certain issue actually impacted them by
proving they had visited the location that the vote was about. The
last idea isn't a bad one as well - and I'm sure that some websites
probably already
try to do this. It's "post vote tracking",
where you would be informed of the results of your vote, and whether
or not the politician you voted for kept his or her promises.
Definitely some interesting ideas to think about.
Downloading for Democracy
Downloading for Democracy
07/19/2004 04:56 AMPeer-to-peer networks aren't just for trading music and movies. A law
student, frustrated by government secrecy and possible conflicts of
interest, launches a website that uses P2P networks to distribute
telling government documents. By Kim Zetter.
A Democracy of Tags
A Democracy of Tags
06/05/2005 11:27 PM Peeter Marvet made a 10 minute screencast in English that provides a
tour of Estonian e-government sites, explains where tagging to provide
feedback to elected officials could fit in and asks you to provide
feedback on the concept. Watch...
Democracy...ummm - sometime ?
Democracy...ummm - sometime ?
06/09/2004 05:15 PM
"No voting rights for
YOU......boy!"- Florida's illegal purges of voter rolls to continue
for 3rd national election? Election head resigns. While Florida
refuses to
release the "purge lists" to CNN, "The head of
Florida's elections division resigned Monday amid reports he was
feeling political heat over a push to purge thousands of suspected
felons from the state's voter rolls." (Tallahassee Sun-Sentinel)
" there has been
little action (and
worse, really) on Florida's
agr
eement to reinstate illegally purged voters to Florida voting
rolls that resulted from an NAACP lawsuit over the 2000 election
[
"Many voters said their votes didn't count or they were
turned away from polls due to mistakes on voter lists, busy telephone
lines at election headquarters, punch-card voting machine foul-ups and
other problems...Statewide, the largest numbers of voting problems
were found in precincts with high proportions of black and elderly
voters." The NYT editorially
acknowledg
ed the scandal on February 15, 2004.]
On May 21, 2002, Ashcroft's Justice Department began a suit against
Florida counties
"for purging Black voters from voter rolls and other violations
of civil rights" Now, four years after the 2000 election,
illegally "purged" Florida voters will not be notified until
it is
"too late
to have their rights restored for this election - or are turned
away on Election Day", reports the Tampa Tribune.
"The
vast majority of them are black and would be likely to vote
Democratic."
It's difficult for convicted felons to
regain the right to vote
in Florida, but many on the "purge" lists were not (in
2000) and still are not felons at all. [ note :
Greg Palast - busy of late -
must be most credited with blowing this story wide open. See
here
here,
here..
...]
Democracy Aid 2004
Democracy Aid 2004
11/05/2003 07:30 AM Democracy Aid
2004. One year from now, on November 2nd 2004, the next
American Presidential elections will be held. For the first time ever,
because of the Internet, it is possible for non-American private
citizens to participate in the campaign process. Debian and Democracy
Debian and Democracy
10/28/2003 11:06 PMTwo unrelated words. From experience.
Democracy in Iraq
Democracy in Iraq
03/22/2005 03:17 PMDemocracy in Iraq (is here)'s .. Iraqi blogger Husayn Uthman .. have a
read of Husayn .. Go read it
all
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Spat over democracy
Spat over democracy
09/16/2004 11:33 AMThe Kremlin tells Washington not to meddle in its response to the
Beslan crisis, while the White House warns Moscow to maintain a
"balance of power."
Applied democracy
Applied democracy
01/12/2004 02:56 AMAbout the Emergent Democracy Worldwide session at the Digital
Democracy Teach-In, the Head Lemur says,
This may be the
single most important seminar of this conference. Participation in
Emergent Democracy requires a computer and an internet connection.
This is the bottom line. Where you can go from there is limited only
by your desire and participation. While we have this group of folks in
the building, let's lower the bar bills and increase the participation
in emergent democracy.
Then he adds a
suggestion: A computer roadshow. Interesting idea.
The Infrastructure of Democracy
The Infrastructure of Democracy
03/14/2005 05:53 PM
I am at this moment co-moderating the Democracy, Terrorism and the
Open Internet panel at the Club de Madrid International Summit on
Democracy, Terrorism and Security with Marko Ahtisaari. We worked all
day yesterday drafting a document we are calling "The Infrastructure
of Democracy". The draft is currently available on the Global Voices wiki.
Please give us some feedback.
Special thanks to Martin Varsavsky for giving us the opportunity
and to John Perry Barlow, John Gage, Dan Gillmor, Chris Goggans, Pekka
Himanen, David Isenberg, Rebecca MacKinnon, Andrew McLaughlin, Desiree
Miloshevic, Jeff Moss, Ejovi Nuwere, Kazuhisa Ogawa, Marc Rotenberg,
David Smith, Wendy Seltzer, Gohsuke Takama, Noriko Takiguchi, Paul
Vixie, David Weinberger and Ethan Zuckerman who came all the way to
Madrid to work on this. Thanks also to the other people in the room
who contributed.
UPDATE: Transcript
s of IRC discussion with Ethan Zuckerman's transcript of most of the
comments. Thanks Ethan!
The official summary of the session is on the
conference site.
UPDATE 2: Here is the full text of the recommendation draft:
The Infrastructure of Democracy
Strengthening the Open Internet for a Safer World
March 11, 2005
I. The Internet is a foundation of democratic society
in the 21st century, because the core values of the Internet and
democracy are so closely aligned.
1. The Internet is fundamentally about openness,
participation, and freedom of expression for all - increasing the
diversity and reach of information and ideas.
2. The Internet allows people to communicate and collaborate across
borders and belief systems.
3. The Internet unites families and cultures in diaspora; it connects
people, helping them to form civil societies.
4. The Internet can foster economic development by connecting people
to information and markets.
5. The Internet introduces new ideas and views to those who may be
isolated and prone to political violence.
6. The Internet is neither above nor below the law. The same legal
principles that apply in the physical world also apply to human
activities conducted over the Internet.
II. Decentralized systems - the power of many - can combat
decentralized foes.
1. Terrorist networks are highly decentralized and distributed.
A centralized effort by itself cannot effectively fight terrorism.
2. Terrorism is everyone's issue. The internet connects everyone. A
connected citizenry is the best defense against terrorist
propaganda.
3. As we saw in the aftermath of the March 11 bombing, response was
spontaneous and rapid because the citizens were able to use the
Internet to organize themselves.
4. As we are seeing in the distributed world of weblogs and other
kinds of citizen media, truth emerges best in open conversation among
people with divergent views.
III. The best response to abuses of openness is more
openness.
1. Open, transparent environments are more secure and more
stable than closed, opaque ones.
2. While Internet services can be interrupted, the Internet as a
global system is ultimately resilient to attacks, even sophisticated
and widely distributed ones.
3. The connectedness of the Internet – people talking with
people – counters the divisiveness terrorists are trying to
create.
4. The openness of the Internet may be exploited by terrorists, but
as with democratic governments, openness minimizes the likelihood of
terrorist acts and enables effective responses to terrorism.
IV. Well-meaning regulation of the Internet in established
democracies could threaten the development of emerging democracies.
1. Terrorism cannot destroy the internet, but over-zealous
legislation in response to terrorism could. Governments should
consider mandating changes to core Internet functionality only with
extraordinary caution.
2. Some government initiatives that look reasonable in fact violate
the basic principles that have made the Internet a success.
3. For example, several interests have called for an end to
anonymity. This would be highly unlikely to stop determined
terrorists, but it would have a chilling effect on political activity
and thereby reduce freedom and transparency. Limiting anonymity would
have a cascading series of unintended results that would hurt freedom
of expression, especially in countries seeking transition to
democratic rule.
V. In conclusion we urge those gathered here in Madrid
to:
1. Embrace the open Internet as a foundation of 21st Century
democracy, and a critical tool in the fight against terrorism.
2. Recognizing the Internet's value as a critical communications
infrastructure, invest to strengthen it against attacks and recover
quickly from damage.
3. Work to spread access more evenly, aggressively addressing the
Digital Divide, and to provide Internet access for all.
4. To protect free speech and association, endorse the availability
of anonymous communications for all.
5. Resist attempts at international governance of the Internet: It
can introduce processes that have unintended effects and violate the
bottom-up democratic nature of the Net.
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MoveOn.org - Democracy in Action
MoveOn.org - Democracy in Action
06/18/2004 04:12 PMHarpin' on the wars we fight, .. MoveOn.orgs Press Corps .. love it or
leave it .. candlelight vigil .. §Š† §Šª .. get involved .. misleader
.. egoff
MoveOn.org
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Rummy's version of Democracy 101
Rummy's version of Democracy 101
03/24/2005 04:27 PMConcerned that schoolyard rules might trump democratic ones in Iraq,
Rumsfeld gives the nation's new parliamentarians a talking to.
"Digital Democracy Teach-In"
"Digital Democracy Teach-In"
02/19/2004 08:49 AMTerrorism and Democracy in Madrid
Terrorism and Democracy in Madrid
03/14/2005 06:01 PM I re-emerge. Sorry for the hiatus. I will do my best in following
posts to recount the sound and fury in my part of Meatspace that has
led to my recent silence in Cyberspace. For now, here I am, in real
time. I'm in Madrid at a meeting convened by the Club of Madrid, a
group of former heads of state, led by former Brazilian president
Fernando Cardoso and, including everyone from Bill Clinton to Mikhail
Gorbachev to Vaclav Havel, to John Major, all seeking to expiate their
sins of office with subsequent good works. The good work at hand is
called The International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism, and Security.
It feel a little like the World Economic Forum, though smaller and
more focused. The security is intense and the press is excluded.(
Though, interestingly, I am posting these words from inside a session,
along with the many other bloggers.) I fear, that despite enough good
intentions to pave a superhighway to hell, not much is likely to come
from this. Everyone seems to be playing we within the boundaries of
his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that
seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. And I'm no better in
this regard. I spent all damned day yesterday in session with many of
the stars of Cyberspace, folks like Joichi Ito, John Gage, Dan
Gillmor, David Weinberger, Ethan Zuckerman, Marc Rotenberg, Andrew
Mclaughlin, Rebecca MacKinnon, etc. etc. Laboring long and loud, we
collectively produced the following statement: The Infrastructure of
Democracy Strengthening the Open Internet for a Safer World March 11,
2005 I. The Internet is a foundation of democratic society in the 21st
century, because the core values of the Internet and democracy are so
closely aligned. 1. The Internet is fundamentally about openness,
participation, and freedom of expression for all -- increasing the
diversity and reach of information and ideas. 2. The Internet allows
people to communicate and collaborate across borders and belief
systems. 3. The Internet unites families and cultures in diaspora; it
connects people, helping them to form civil societies. 4. The Internet
can foster economic development by connecting people to information
and markets. 5. The Internet introduces new ideas and views to those
who may be isolated and prone to political violence. 6. The Internet
is neither above nor below the law. The same legal principles that
apply in the physical world also apply to human activities conducted
over the Internet. II. Decentralized systems -- the power of many --
can combat decentralized foes. 1. Terrorist networks are highly
decentralized and distributed. A centralized effort by itself cannot
effectively fight terrorism. 2. Terrorism is everyone's issue. The
internet connects everyone. A connected citizenry is the best defense
against terrorist propaganda. 3. As we saw in the aftermath of the
March 11 bombing, response was spontaneous and rapid because the
citizens were able to use the Internet to organize themselves. 4. As
we are seeing in the distributed world of weblogs and other kinds of
citizen media, truth emerges best in open conversation among people
with divergent views. III. The best response to abuses of openness is
more openness. 1. Open, transparent environments are more secure and
more stable than closed, opaque ones. 2. While Internet services can
be interrupted, the Internet as a global system is ultimately
resilient to attacks, even sophisticated and widely distributed ones.
3. The connectedness of the Internet – people talking with
people – counters the divisiveness terrorists are trying to
create. 4. The openness of the Internet may be exploited by
terrorists, but as with democratic governments, openness minimizes the
likelihood of terrorist acts and enables effective responses to
terrorism. IV. Well-meaning regulation of the Internet in established
democracies could threaten the development of emerging democracies. 1.
Terrorism cannot destroy the internet, but over-zealous legislation in
response to terrorism could. Governments should consider mandating
changes to core Internet functionality only with extraordinary
caution. 2. Some government initiatives that look reasonable in fact
violate the basic principles that have made the Internet a success. 3.
For example, several interests have called for an end to anonymity.
This would be highly unlikely to stop determined terrorists, but it
would have a chilling effect on political activity and thereby reduce
freedom and transparency. Limiting anonymity would have a cascading
series of unintended results that would hurt freedom of expression,
especially in countries seeking transition to democratic rule. V. In
conclusion we urge those gathered here in Madrid to: 1. Embrace the
open Internet as a foundation of 21st Century democracy, and a
critical tool in the fight against terrorism. 2. Recognizing the
Internet's value as a critical communications infrastructure, invest
to strengthen it against attacks and recover quickly from damage. 3.
Work to spread access more evenly, aggressively addressing the Digital
Divide, and to provide Internet access for all. 4. To protect free
speech and association, endorse the availability of anonymous
communications for all. 5. Resist attempts at international governance
of the Internet: It can introduce processes that have unintended
effects and violate the bottom-up democratic nature of the Net. In
other words, precisely what you would expect us to say. So predictable
as to be the equivalent of silence. And yet, it's what we all
passionately believe. We are now all in a session where we are
presenting this little manifesto. It has just been strongly and rather
surprisingly rebuked by my friend Benjamin Barber who laid out the
usual older, indigerate stuff about how the Internet is nothing but
the handmaiden of big media, scarcely better than television. Now an
Iranian lady has risen to discuss, among other things, the fact that
all the ayatollahs of Iran have sites on the Internet....
On Protecting Journalism And Democracy
On Protecting Journalism And Democracy
03/14/2005 05:50 PM By Donna Wentworth, Corante
Is A Reasonable Effort At Democracy
Enough?
Is A Reasonable Effort At Democracy
Enough?
09/03/2004 12:29 PMWhile other states are being more
proacti
ve about stopping bad e-voting machines, Maryland has decided it's
just too much effort to, you know, make sure democracy works right. A
judge there has decided that, you know what, the folks in Maryland
have tried pretty hard on this whole thing, and even if the machines
don't really work right and are opening to tampering,
it's the thought
that counts. Because they've made a "reasonable effort" to ensure
the machines are safe, they can be used. Why should the "effort"
matter, rather than the actual state of the machines? While it's true
that other methods also have their problems, that doesn't mean that
the current machines should be given a pass for being "good enough."
There are clear ways to improve them and make them even less prone to
mistakes or fraud, and there's no reason not to do so.
Democracy and Control in Google's IPO
Democracy and Control in Google's IPO
04/30/2004 02:00 AMBusiness Week Apr 30 2004 6:16AM GMT
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