1. Congressional Reform Amendment of 2011
(Matching tags: reform,US Congress,democracy)

I was watching this 1968 anti-pot movie featuring Sonny Bono, and noticed an interesting baby boomer issue. Back then, they couldn’t vote until they were 21, and as unacceptable as that was, social ...

2. Rage of the Waiting Youth
(Matching tags: Algeria,Tunisia,people power,Eqypt,democracy,revolution)

Neoliberal Internationalists and “Silver Democracies” Should Heed North Africa’s Example Well...

3. What is a Teabagger?
(Matching tags: USA,democracy,teabaggers)

Teabaggers are a misinformed, right-wing corporate media consumer who often fails to understand that they represent a corrupt plutocracy that steals from the middle class by taxing labor and profiting ...

4. Blackbox Voting
(Matching tags: USA,democracy,fraud)

American Voices Abroad member Eric Smith in Tokyo, Japan has sent us this message; read it, learn about what's happening, democracy's last shred is about to be torn asunder.  ...

5. The Powerlessness of the Powerful
(Matching tags: globalisation,democracy,realpolitik)

"There are natures so innately beautiful, so richly dowered by God, that the idea that they could ever alter for the worse seems unthinkable. You can always be tranquil on their account..." ...

6. I Smell a Rat
(Matching tags: democracy,fraud,Election 2004)

I smell a rat. It has that distinctive and all-too-familiar odor of the species Republicanus floridius. We got a nasty bite from this pest four years ago and never quite recovered. Symptoms of a long-term ...

7. A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
(Matching tags: insight,democracy,US Politics)

From the writers of The Daily Show is this hilarious alter-history of American Democracy...  ...

8. Bush Trashes USA!
(Matching tags: George W. Bush,democracy,abortion)

In his first act in office, the Monday after his inauguration, he rescinded all US funding for Planned Parenthood agencies in foreign countries, while Christians marched outside the White House, cheering ...

9. This is what democracy looks like?
(Matching tags: George W. Bush,democracy,election)

This little gem made the rounds after the 2000 sham election, and on the surface it should just make your blood boil. Who'd know that it would be such a destructive force for the world... (we did.)  ...

10. How to influence the political process
(Matching tags: money,democracy,elections)

Our votes don't count at all. To believe that is truly to miss the point...