dictatorship

From Dictatorship to Democracy

After reading this book, http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf I wonder how different the outcome of the Occupy Movement might have been if they'd followed Gene Sharp's blueprint.

The book has been translated into several languages and can be found on Gene's website:

http://fromdictatorshiptodemocracy.org/

 

The way things are going, this information could come in handy.

Americans Have Less Access to Justice than...

This news may not come as a surprise, but the stats certainly put things into perspective.  Despite popular belief that the U.S. is the Land of the "Free", in reality it looks as though "we're not in Kansas anymore." ~ Noa


http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/americans-have-less-access-to-jus...

The Future of the Internet

I wish I never found articles like this one just before going to bed at night!  According to the Pentagon, the Internet should be considered an "enemy weapons system."  The Department of Offense is blunt about its concerns.  Particularly worrying to them is the unfettered spread of ideas - what you and I know as freedom of speech.  Apparently their plan is for the current web to &

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