More: Democracy
The Tyranny of the 1%: The Illusion of Overcoming Terror
~ If you want total security, go to prison… The only thing lacking is freedom. Dwight D. Eisenhower And now we have Brussels to...
The Blame Game: Finding Fault in Greater Caspian Human Rights
A wonderfully informative, if also somewhat depressing, report has just come out from The Foreign Policy Centre, based in London, where the effort was...
Elections 2016: The End of the American Two-Party System?
With the Iowa caucuses over and the results from New Hampshire in, the 2016 elections are officially underway. The last decade in American politics...
Azeri Intelligence: Dealing with Handcuffs and Hindrances
Azerbaijan has been known to have more natural resources than most nations. However, it is its geographical location and history that sometimes has been...
Islam and Democracy: False Perceptions or Pure Propagation?
The Islamic Da'wah exhibits Islam as being peaceful and compassionate, in order to delude the infidels and to pave the way for their march...
Kazakhstan’s Snap Elections Called Amidst Dissent and Economic Troubles
Kazakhstan will be holding Parliamentary snap elections in March 2016 ultimately providing a mandate for autocratic President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The elections will not produce...
China’s Insecurity
China is one of the major global powers in the world, and its economy is the second largest next to the US. However, its...
Never ending battle – who are those that control us?
How many centers, panels and groups are basically only big world corporation, with misleading names, heading towards bigger earnings and capital? I realized while...
The Cascade Effect: Local Power from Old Soviets to New Russians (1985-2015)
Authors: Matthew Crosston, PhD & Dmitrii Seltser We have undertaken an inter-regional comparison of seven subjects of the Russian Federation: the Ryazan, Samara, Tambov,...
Justifying the lowering of the voting age for local elections
In the following paper we shall discuss the link between age as a personal characteristic and the right to vote as one of, if...