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Broadened NATO-integrated missile defense as opposed to US unilateral expensive interce... - 0 views

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    No promised interceptors in Poland and no radar in the Czech Republic by 2013. In a reversal to Bush security policies in relations with Poland and the Czech Republic, the Obama administration will not proceed in the direction of deploying an expensive untested radar and missile defense system to Eastern Europe. The Bush missile interceptor plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office, estimated in February 2009 that the proposed plan would cost $9-13 billion over 20 years.
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Unorthodox compromising Senator Ted Kennedy extended social justice ideals beyond Ameri... - 0 views

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    The foreign policy contributions of Senator Ted Kennedy.
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At a 60's Style Be-In, Guns Yield to Words, Lots of Words - 0 views

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    This article will allow me to evaluate the mainstream media's interpretation of the Other Campaign. Expectedly, it is full of jokes and superfluity and lacking in legitimate analysis. The NYT guy said that Marcos was vague about what the Other Campaign is about. They say Marcos "even tried to undermine" the "popular leftist candidate," the one from the PRD, who would sell out the country. "Precisely what Marcos hopes to accomplish with the meetings and with a planned national tour by a group of Zapatista representatives remains murky. He has not defined how he would change the Constitution." They say that the EZLN hasn't launched another military offensive because they were pushed back into the jungle by the military in 1995. in article: Still others say Marcos's call for a broad movement reflects a widespread disappointment with left-leaning politicians throughout Latin America, who have become enmeshed in the sort of corruption scandals they once criticized. "What they are saying represents a trend in Latin America, which is that people have lost faith in political parties," said Peter M. Rosset, an expert in agricultural policy who attended the meeting on Sunday. "The basic feeling is that the political class is all the same." That sentiment was expressed over and over here in San Miguel, a former 15,000-acre ranch that the Zapatistas seized in 1994 and divided among former Indian ranch hands. "This movement, for me, its historic," said Arturo Guzmán González, a 29-year-old singer who did a version a cappella of his protest song, "Manifestarse." "It has a moral base, this movement. They seek the words of everyone."
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US moves towards open arming of Syrian opposition - 0 views

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The Danger of War in Asia - 0 views

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    I'm not sure how seriously to take this article. The articles references two commentators, one from Financial Times and the other from Foreign Policy. Those are pretty legitimate, I guess. They say that the US is forming an alliance with South Korea, Japan, and others contra Beijing.
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Populism and the enchanted world of 'moderate politics' | openDemocracy - 1 views

  • I essentially question the epistemological flaws surrounding the uses of the notion: when is it safe to call a politician, a political party or movement ‘populist’?
  • The stakes are high because to label someone as ‘populist’ is to imply that s/he is somehow a potential or real enemy of representative democracy. My critic refers to the ‘pernicious effects’ of populism which underlines the notion’s very negative connotation. Let me here reply to Catherine Fieschi’s major criticisms.
  • Cas Mudde, one of the major specialists on the subject, concedes that populism is a ‘thin-centred ideology’.
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  • According to Michael Freeden’s ‘morphological analysis’, an ideology has its own ‘ineliminable’ core of values exercising control, with logically and culturally adjacent concepts that are further connected to peripheral concepts.
  • To point out that populism does not have the depth and sophistication of a political ideology is in no way an attempt to suggest that this is a ‘wishy-washy’ notion, even less to ‘to discourage analysts’, let alone ‘to bamboozle democrats’ as Catherine Fieschi alleges. No, it simply means testing the epistemological merits of the notion in order to reveal its heuristic limits.
  • In the 1930s, millions marched behind the banners of Fascism and Communism. Today, no one would die for a populist cause. Populism is no ideology simply because it offers no positive worldview. It is just a means to an end, a device to appeal to the masses.
  • Think for a moment: aren’t those amorphous policies of ‘mainstream’ parties responsible for their rising unpopularity and their decreasing credibility? Why should political scientists uncritically use the media clichés about ‘reasonable moderates’ opposing ‘undemocratic radicals/populists’?
  • It is a fact that populists thrive on ‘wounded’ democracies. But ‘wounded’ democracies are imperfectly run polities, where economic inequalities are dire, and where the elites have often broken their promises. Thus let’s not forget who provoked the ‘democratic fracture’ in the first place. Why do some political scientists seem oblivious to the fact that the ‘moderates’ who let down their electorates are mainly responsible for their own demise?
  • Again, the task of the political scientist should not be to condone or condemn this state of affairs, but to try to understand why people feel so disenfranchised. Consequently, the researcher should tackle and discuss the policies which make those populations suffer. Unfortunately, this is not something which most political scientists seem in the least concerned about. ‘Not to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand’ said Spinoza. Before looking down on the disoriented and angry voters who fall for the demagogues or dismissing all ‘radicals’ as undisputed ‘populists’, it would indeed be worth pausing for a moment to understand how those agents feel and to ask what they want. Political scientists should also wonder why more and more ‘moderate’ voters no longer believe in the enchanted world of ‘moderate politics’.
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Obama's Confidence Hints at Hidden Powers Shaping Election - Godfather Politics - 0 views

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    OBAMA WAS PUT IN OFFICE BY THE SAME PEOPLE THAT PUT GEORGE BUSH IN OFFICE, THE BILDERBURGERS. THAT IS WHY HE IS FOLLING BUSHES POLICIES AND HAS BROKEN ALMOST EVERY CAMPAIGN PROMISE. BOYCOTT ALL LIBERAL MEDIA ADVERTISERS UNTIL THEY STOP DISTORTING THE EWS FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. WE CAN DO THIS! PASS THIS ON AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS OT WATCH THE BANKER CONTROLED NES MEDIA RE-ELECT BARAK OBAMA.
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Bankrupt California Can Be Saved by Following Puerto Rico's Example - Godfather Politics - 0 views

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    BARAK OBAMAS LIBERAL POLICIES FOLLOWING CALIFORNIAS LEAD.
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Maddow: Ron Paul calls out uncomfortable truth in GOP politics | Dark Politricks - 0 views

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    "What is most interesting about Ron Paul is the extent to which his domestic stuff, his social-issue libertarianism, his position on things not just like the war in Iraq but the war on drugs, calls out a really uncomfortable truth in Republican politics," she explained. "Which is that Republicans want their brand to be small, hands off government, but the policies they support are more like big intrusive government. Things like forced, mandatory drug testing by the government and federal regulation of every marriage in the country."
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'DREAMers' Take Advantage of ICE No-Enforcement Policy | MRCTV - 0 views

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    HAPPY NOW LIBERALS?
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Jimmy, is that you? |The Political Pragmatic - 0 views

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    It's official! The Republican Party is stupid on purpose; a bunch of bigots with racially divisive tactics and policies that are insulting and anti-minority, on purpose. I didn't get the memo, but according to the RNC "Racism has ended".
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Everyday Corruption | The American Prospect - 0 views

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    "The policy-making process has become an extension of the market battlefield."
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Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » A Distu... - 0 views

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    The era that Net Neutrality supporters have long  feared is here - major companies have begun divvying up the internet. Last  month, Google and Verizon  announced a "policy framework" of how the rules for the internet  could work in  the future. The framework is a disturbing vision for the future. Wireless  internet - such as services delivered over smart phones - would be completely  unregulated; companies would be free to prioritize their own services - for  everything from music to video to chat - over those of competitors.
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