RECAP Directory (List)
All prior RECAPs plus Series CLOSED below the line. Updated 2 August 2013.
All prior RECAPs plus Series CLOSED below the line. Updated 2 August 2013.
Politics is too important to be left to politicians – time for citizens’s juries By Katie Ghose, Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society Left Foot Forward, BC, 5 August 2011 A farmer, a school teacher, a politician – just who would you trust to set the rules of politics? That’s the question being posed …
Continue reading “Koko: Politics Needs Citizen Juries for Integrity”
Dear friends, The 160-person British Columbian Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform took every other weekend for a year to research and reach consensus on the best method for their province’s election process. The fourteen citizens in a Danish Consensus Conference take several weekends over several months to learn about their assigned technical issue and come …
Continue reading “Tom Atlee: Citizens Panel Cuts 2.2 Trillion in One Hour”
Debt ceiling struggle exposing dysfunction in the U.S. political system John Farmer on July 17, 2011 EXTRACT: How’d we get in this fix? It wasn’t easy and it involved many things — congressional redistricting, polarization of both GOP and Democratic Party “bases” and their media sycophants, the increasing influence of lobbying money, and the political …
Continue reading “DefDog: Dysfunction in US political system exposed”
Dear Friends: This is an interesting dialogue I’ve been eavesedropping on.. Cheers, John Phi Beta Iota: Others have been on this story for decades–the rest of the world is just now catching on. It is a two-party tyranny–voting for one or the other is NOT an option. What we need is an end to the …
Includes print interviews & testimony. Updated 11 November 2015. Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Articles. 2015 OpenDemocracy: Robert Steele, American Intelligence and National Defense 2.0 CounterPunch: Robert Steele on Counter-Coup – How Trump Can Win By Restoring Integrity to the Electoral Process and the US Government Robert Steele: Fast Tracking Extreme Democracy and Open Source Everything – A …
I received this email from an Afghan (Pashtun) friend, who now lives in Europe and has a doctors degree from Oxford Chuck I’m sending you this email for two reasons: 1. The account of what has happened is fairly accurate. 2. Because the author’s type of belief beggars the imagination: Namely, that a “democracy” can …
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: An Aghan’s Angst Over Corruption”