EGYPT: Can Democracy by Randomly Revolutionized?

Will Egypt Revolutionize Democracy Itself? by Tom Atlee Thomas Friedman suggests that the special strength of Egypt’s youth-led revolutionary movement has been “the fact that it represented every political strain, every segment and class in Egyptian society.” But then he turns around and says that diversity “is also its weakness. It still has no accepted …

Building Democracy Amongst Corporate Personhood Rights, Powers, and Legal Fictions

Womens International League for Peace and Freedom is pushing to turn back the Supreme Court ruling that gives corporations personhood and the freedom to spend unlimited money in political ads under freedom of speech. See Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers from 1772-1996 (pdf) Related: + Video: Transpartisan dialog on corporate power (Jan 21, 2011 …

Review: Wingnuts–How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America

John P. Avlon Theater–Follow the Money to Understand October 28, 2010 Unquestionable a great book, with one big missing piece: it does not follow the money back to Wall Street. Buckminster Fuller understood in the 1960’s that the White House had become theater, I did not understand his meaning until the economic meltdown and my …