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Tom Atlee: In a wise democracy, who are “stakeholders” and what is their role?

In a wise democracy, who are “stakeholders” and what is their role? Stakeholders are citizens involved with a specific issue or domain, whose activities actually constitute that issue or domain. Thus the stakeholders of a domain collectively have the potential – IF they collaborate – to make whatever difference is most important to be made …

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Tom Atlee: Deep Democracy and Community Wisdom

Deep Democracy and Community Wisdom A community has more potential capacity to generate wisdom than any individual. But that potential can only be realized to the extent the community creatively utilizes both its diversity and the tensions and disturbances that arise within it. The most potent forms of leadership and governance thus involve nurturing the …

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Jean James: International Declaration on Information and Democracy: principles for the global information and communication space

This announcement not only  takes issue with government propaganda, but explicitly addresses the censorship and manipulation that have been characteristic of what some call #GoogleGestapo — the platforms that have been censoring and manipulating data and digitally assassinating tens of thousands of sources and millions of specific posts and videos. International Declaration on Information and …

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Steven Aftergood: CRS on Global Democracy, USA a Flawed Democracy

DEMOCRACY IN DECLINE? Democracy as a political system has not advanced around the world in the past decade and by some measures it has actually declined, a new report from the Congressional Research Service observes. The obstacles are not all located abroad. Unlike its predecessors, the Trump Administration does not include democracy promotion as part …

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Yoda: Facebook Destroying Democracy

Good, New Yorker. Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works—no civil discourse, no coöperation, misinformation, mistruth.”

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Robert Steele: 9/11 Truth: To Be, or Not To Be, a Constitutional Democracy

9/11 Truth: To Be, or Not To Be, a Constitutional Democracy Remarks to 9/11 Justice For All, Busboys & Poets, 11 September 2018, 9 pm (est) “The truth at any cost lowers all others costs.”  As Charles Lewis has so eloquently and definitively established, 9/11 lies have destroyed America’s moral integrity. In just fifteen minutes …

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