Melinda Brouwer, AlterNet. July 2, 2008. Creating a "League of Democracies" is a central tenet of John McCain's foreign policy "vision," but in other democracies, the idea's a non-starter.
Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine. June 16, 2008. Both Canada and the U.S. have a history of abusing the original inhabitants of their lands. Will both admit to it?
Maxine Frith, The Independent UK. March 5, 2008. Rates of female participation in governments across the world are still appallingly low, and women face endemic discrimination in nearly all sectors.
James Denselow, Comment Is Free. November 29, 2007. Truth is a casualty when governments and generals cherry-pick figures to support a partisan purpose.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. April 16, 2007. The American public has wrongly been typecast as moody, ignorant and inconsistent even though poll after poll shows evidence to the contrary.