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2007-10-22 22:45 COHA Report. The Organization of American States: On its Deathbed
To Our Readers Unfortunately, an older and unedited version of the COHA piece entitled œThe OAS: On its Deathbed was inadvertently sent out to a very small cohort of COHA readers on October 17 before an error was discovered and the press run was immediately aborted. Due to a computer editing error, the author, Sean Bartlett did not catch that two different facts were spliced into one sentence. Jose Miguel Insulza, as a young man in his late twenties, was a political director in the Chilean For …
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2007-10-19 21:37 Pakistan holds its breath
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 19/10/07): Generally speaking, there is no upside to a suicide bombing, especially one as pitiless, as treacherous, and as costly of human life as that which hit home in Karachi yesterday. The slaughter came at the very moment when hope of a better, more prosperous and more democratic future had at last returned to the hearts of millions of impoverished, disillusioned and effectively disenfranchised Pakistanis. But if, as now seems likely, the mass murder pushes P …
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2007-10-16 03:45 Government Innovators Network: A Portal for Democratic Governance and Innovation
De la mano de la Universida d de Harvard, concretame nte de Harvard' s John F. Kennedy School of Government se pone en marcha la red de innovadore s en el gobierno con la intención que sea un mercado de ideas y ejemplos de innovación en la administra ción pública. This dynamic portal produced by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard' s John F. Kennedy School of Government brings you timely examples of government innovation. Here you will find news and features, an …
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2007-10-12 16:22 Non-Binding Proposals DefendedSubmitted by: L. Reed Walton, Publications
In letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission, individual and institutional investors voiced opposition to any new limits on non-binding shareholder proposals. Of the more than 15,000 letters the SEC received during a public comment period that ended Oct. 2, more than 10,000 of them defended the rights of investors to file non-binding proposals at public companies. Many of those letters stemmed from a joint campaign by the Social Investment Forum and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Res …
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2007-09-28 15:38 Investors, Business Spar on AccessSubmitted by: L. Reed Walton, Publications
At a legislative hearing this week, investor advocates criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission s proposed proxy access rules, while business representatives expressed wariness about giving shareholders the right to nominate directors to appear on corporate proxy statements. Rep. Barney Frank, the Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, invited five investor and business representatives to a Sept. 27 hearing to testify about two competing rule proposals issued …
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2007-09-06 08:30 Can A Workplace Be A Democracy
I had an interesting conversation yesterday wicth a woman named Traci Fenton, who heads up a "leadership and business design studio" called WorldBlu. I called up Fenton after reading a piece in Boston Magazine this weekend about "workplace democracy," and the Boston-area companies that had made WorldBlu's list of particularly egalitarian organizations. Many of the firms on the list are members of the new-age business set--design consultancy Continuum, organic beverage bottler Honest Tea, Second …
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2007-09-05 17:37 Speaking of Technocrats...
Apparently leading technocrat and Mussolini-style-economic-dictator Robert Reich is at it again, arguing the path to freedom requires more government coercion. Ronald Bailey reminds us that Reich was the one who advocated the US adopt Japanese MITI-style economic management, just before the American economy took off for 25 years and Japan's spiraled into stagnation. Now, he is arguing that capitalism is the enemy of democracy: As Freedom House points out the number of countries that qualify as …
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2007-09-01 09:00 Liberty and Justice for All
Can democracy take hold in Iraq Michael Mandelbaum, author of the new book Democracy s Good Name. The Rise and Risks of the World s Most Popular Form of Government, isn't optimistic. But as Bruce S. Thornton observes in this book review, Mandlebaum still "makes a powerful argument for the continuation of the spread of democracy." By Bruce S. Thornton Words that elicit our unthinking approval are often dangerous. From Plato to the American Founders, œdemocracy signified mob rule and political d …
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2007-08-31 18:04 Capitalism and Democracy
Here is my final post as guest blogger at Free Exchange : I BEGAN the week discussing the link between capitalism and democracy. In my initial post, I emphasized the importance of economic freedoms for generating political freedoms. In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Michael Mandelbaum echoes this same logic: The desire for a democratic political system does not by itself create the capacity for establishing one. The key to establishing a working democracy, and in particular the instituti …
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2007-08-30 19:54 Progress is a sometime thing: President Bush and Success in Iraq
This compilation was never supposed to be this long. I had intended to locate some instances in which President George W. Bush told us things were progressing in Iraq, and like Herbert Hoover s œprosperity success was just around the corner. However, œsuccess as in the case of so many other issues addressed by the Bush Administration is an ephemeral thing, constantly revised, carefully nuanced, and most often qualified. From the almost exuberant comments in 2003 to the acceptance of the Viet …
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2007-08-30 02:47 Undermining The Episcopal Church, Part 2
Blasting Away at the Bedrock by the Rev. Thomas B. Woodward There are some things that are bedrock in any denomination or church. In the Episcopal Church, there are several things that are bedrock, among which are the Book of Common Prayer; our commitment to Scripture, tradition, and reason as determinative of doctrine; and our insistence on the full participation of the laity in our worship and governance. Bedrock is important because it gives us a place to stand when all else seems up for grab …
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2007-08-29 17:02 IN MEMORIAM: The 2nd Anniversary Of Governor Fletcher's (R) Desecration Of The Rule Of Law -- His Bl …
While I've not seen any media stories about this so far, today is a very tragic anniversary. Two years ago this evening, Governor Fletcher (R) broke his solemn promise to the voters of Kentucky and railroaded an investigation into criminality at the highest levels of his administration by pre-emptively issuing a blanket pardon to his entire administration, as well as anyone else who may have been involved in the Merit System conspiracy, for which he was subsequently indicted. Most agree this act …
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2007-08-29 14:12 Open Letter To: Monsieur Stephen Harper
To: The Right Honorable Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen J. Harper ;Re: To cease and desist with regards to the unlawful excercise of appointing Conservative Party "governmental liaisons" in ridings with, or without, duly elected MPs ;Dear Mr. Prime Minister Harper; As a Canadian who holds our Constitution to the highest respect, as well as a law-abiding and tax-paying citizen, it was with dismay and outrage that I received news that you appointed Sharon Smith, currently Mayor of Houston B.C. a …
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2007-08-28 22:45 Redemption
By Peter Kenney More than one hundred-fifty members of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe gathered last night to deal with a painful chapter in their history. On a cool August evening with a full moon lighting clear skies Wampanoag Indians arrived at a function hall in Cotuit for a seven o'clock meeting called to discuss the storm of controversy swirling around them and their embattled Tribal Council president, Glenn Marshall. It appears that Marshall and his close friends within the tribe have benfi …
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2007-08-27 22:43 The United States of America in Iraq: A Nation Without Honor
by Michael O'McCarthy There is a smell an odor, in the air. It is fetid rot. It is a toxic mix of the blackening blood of the murdered and seeping red of the wounded. It has seeped down mixing with the ancient putrefaction of the long dead buried hundreds of feet below the dust-sand surface, oil-well riddled land of Iraq. This cancerous odor has a name and it has saturated the earth before most recently in South East Asia: It s name is U. S. foreign policy. Now that the Idiot Prince has introduc …
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