Posts Tagged ‘Democracy’
Putin on Western Democracy, the Gaza Flotilla, and Iran
Pravda.ru | 11 June 2010 Putin: Western Model of Democracy Doesn't Exist Vladimir Putin gave a traditional interview to French journalists prior to his visit to Paris. In the interview, the chairman of the Russian government said that the Western model of democracy does not exist per se. Below you can read several most intersecting [...]
Pak seeks India’s help on electronic voting system
Cambodian Times | 16 January 2010 Islamabad, Jan.16 : Pakistan has asked India for guidance on the procedures related to voting conducted through electronic voting machines. Pakistan's Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retired) Hamid Ali Mirza is scheduled to arrive in New Delhi on January 25 to participate in the diamond jubilee [...]
Democracy in India (and the War in Kashmir)
Outlook India and Tomgram | Essay by Arundhati Roy What Have We Done to Democracy? Of Nearsighted Progress, Feral Howls, Consensus, Chaos, and a New Cold War in Kashmir The war in the Kashmir valley is almost 20 years old now, and has claimed about 70,000 lives. Tens of thousands have been tortured, several thousand have "disappeared," women [...]
Critical Notes on Obama’s Cairo Speech: Imperialism with a Human Face
In pleasant contrast to his predecessor, Barack Obama is a cultured, sensitive, educated, well-mannered man and these personal qualities were on ample display and much appreciated in Cairo on Thursday. But the Muslim world on whom the government of the United States has declared a unilateral, indiscriminate, unconventional war of collective [...]
