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CBC.ca
April 29, 2018
Much has been made of the so-called Ford Nation and its potential to storm Ontario's legislature in the upcoming provincial election. But the coalition that could deliver victory to Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives in June looks less like a new political movement — and more like a Common SenseÃâà...
gulfnews.com
April 29, 2018
Washington: House Speaker Paul Ryan, Republican, Wisconsin, dismissed Rev Patrick Conroy this month as chaplain of the chamber, a decision that has ignited a faith and politics debate. Conroy, who is paid $172,500 a year, is supposed to arrange the opening prayer when the House is in session andÃâà...
The Hill
April 29, 2018
While Aristotle anticipated that regimes would change, the modern political revolutionaries look for a final solution of mankind's problems, if only their ... Hanson's insights always show his familiarity with the spirit and course of revolutions as described in particular by Thucydides up through the French andÃâà...
Irish Times
April 28, 2018
Pashinyan wants to head the new government himself and has pledged to lead fresh protests if a candidate from the Republican Party, which has dominated Armenian politics since 1999, gets the job. “There won't be any political trade-offs,” he wrote on Facebook on Thursday. “The revolution goes on.”Ãâà...
Jacobin magazine
April 28, 2018
Those who draw a straight line from the October Revolution to Stalinism invariably ignore the civil war that came in between. ... In contrast to the liberal Provisional Government's resistance to democracy, many institutions sprang up after February that handed political and economic control to workers,Ãâà...
Eyewitness News
April 25, 2018
Tracy Chapman's iconic 80s song Talkin' 'bout a Revolution seems to have added resonance now especially as we watched Mahikeng and other parts of the North West province burn. Burning has become a leitmotif in South Africa. Usually, if protesters want the attention of politicians, burning followsÃâà...
euronews
April 25, 2018
April 25, 1974, the day of the Carnation Revolution, when four decades of authoritarian rule would abruptly end. ... Another year of political turmoil would follow before the first free election is held and true democratic reforms introduced, but the bloodless coup remains an immense source of pride for theÃâà...
The Apopka Voice
April 25, 2018
It's a significant list, but it wasn't enough to stop the political tsunami that crashed into City Hall on March 13th with Nelson riding its wave to victory with 63.4% of the vote. So in 2018, Apopka swept three new candidates into office – Nelson, Commissioner Alice Nolan, and Commissioner Alexander H. Smith.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 24, 2018
Outrage over allegations of political cronyism. Mass protests in the capital. Young people demanding a say in their country's future. A leader's sudden departure from power. Serbia in 2000? Georgia in 2003? Ukraine in 2004 (or 2014)? Kyrgyzstan in 2005? No, this is Armenia in 2018. With YerevanÃâà...
Irish Times
April 24, 2018
Born in 1868 with an independent streak, those years of the late 19th century in which she grew up were also a time of political ferment. Social and political radicalism was in the air. Ownership of the land by landlords such as her father, Sir Henry Gore Booth, was a hot political issue in her youth. ConstanceÃâà...
Irish Times
April 24, 2018
Why did the Irish revolution, drawing its inspiration from a cult of political violence, not repudiate the parliamentary tradition? The obvious explanation – which the leaders of the revolution would have been loath to admit – is that constitutional politics had served the Irish people well, especially in the fourÃâà...
GC Advocate
April 24, 2018
Moral Depravity, Discontent and Socialism The Politics of the Urban Revolution ... When political leaders use the language of doctors, you know they are planning something barbarous. 'Cancers' must be ... Amid these revolutions, most people ate, talked, fought, got drunk, danced, sang and worked.
Eurasia Daily
April 24, 2018
Pashinyan should form a clear view of all this,” political analyst Tevan Poghosyan told EADaily comenting on the current political situation in Armenia. To recall, Prime ... Despite revolutionary euphoria, let's not forget that the driving power of the revolution were minors having no right to vote. PashinyanÃâà...
Irish Times
April 23, 2018
However, focusing on the absence of a social revolution in tandem with the political one is to miss an important point. ... On the contrary, it was played out as much in the arena of constitutional politics as in the violence of 1916 and the War of Independence – with critical byelections in 1917 and 1918, SinnÃâà...
Lamron
April 13, 2018
When politicians pontificate and bombs abound, the world may miss the voices of the people. Northwestern University political scientist Wendy Pearlman sought to elevate those voices in her 2017 book We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria. Pearlman's book centered around the pastÃâà...
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
April 13, 2018
Teachers' Rights Advocate Writes Scathing Letter From Prison on Revolutionary Iran's Failed Promises ... a revolution that the clerics and some political groups said would be a harbinger of peace and freedom and put an end to poverty and discrimination, where people would have access to free water andÃâà...
Idaho Press-Tribune
April 13, 2018
Daughters of the American Revolution, founded in 1890 and based in Washington, D.C., has more than 192,000 members nationwide, including 595 in Idaho, according to the news release. It is a nonprofit, non-political, volunteer women's organization promoting patriotism, American history preservationÃâà...
IVN News
April 13, 2018
Our Theory of Change: America is undergoing a political revolution. In 1961, 97 percent of Oregonians were either Democrats or Republicans, and only 20 percent of Americans thought of themselves as “independents”. Today, more than 40 percent of Oregonians are Independent, non-affiliated orÃâà...
The Keene Sentinel
April 13, 2018
A former vice-presidential nominee, the highest ranking Republican during Trump's rise and once his party's ideological standard-bearer, Ryan has spent the last two years resisting, minimizing and ultimately conceding to a Trumpian revolution he could neither contain nor control. Ryan's brand of politics,Ãâà...
The Conversation AU
April 12, 2018
This article is part of the Revolutions and Counter Revolutions series, curated by Democracy Futures as a joint global initiative between the Sydney Democracy Network and The Conversation. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.
The Conversation UK
April 11, 2018
15 years after the US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, the region is plagued by unresolved internal political struggles that have arisen from what protesters call the KRG's undemocratic, unconstitutional and illegal actions. Iraqi Kurdish politics reached a critical point in September 2017, when theÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
April 10, 2018
In a five-page letter wishing Cambodians a happy Khmer New Year, Prime Minister Hun Sen also took the opportunity to praise himself and his government for an ongoing, internationally condemned political crackdown. “In the previous year, though Cambodia faced obstacles both inside and out, theÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 30, 2018
When historians look back at this period, they will see how persistent protesters reconfigured Ethiopia's political map in just a couple of years. They will note how Oromo politics was forced from the distant periphery to the very centre of affairs. And they will observe how the passionate Oromo youth - knownÃâà...
Religion & Politics
March 20, 2018
Indeed, in the 1790s, when the French Revolution seemed to toss the entire world into tumult, many American ministers and politicians came to envision their nation's future as intertwined with Christian devotion. The resulting religious nationalism has rarely been challenged since. In the Age of Revolutions,Ãâà...
Manhattan Mercury
March 17, 2018
Trump is a revolutionary figure not because he changed the GOP's position on trade or international engagement. ... He embraced issues that grabbed from each political persuasion, for universal health care, against the tax cuts, but also for fracking, against the assault weapons ban, skeptical of the $15Ãâà...
Chronicle
March 17, 2018
Indeed, as things stand, it is questionable whether the man who strongly opposed as a revolutionary, the oppression of the people of this country by a racist foreign regime is still master of his own senses; otherwise how does he after resigning as the President suddenly turn opponent of the party, Zanu-PF,Ãâà...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
March 17, 2018
Is Thanathorn that person, and could a Macron-like revolution happen in Thailand? It is unlikely. His party, like all political parties, is not yet allowed to reveal its policy positions, and it remains unclear what he will actually stand for. Some Thais suspect that the leader of the new party is actually a Puea ThaiÃâà...
TRT World
March 17, 2018
In any strategic sense the rebellion has been defeated — it is not able to overthrow Bashar al-Assad by force on its own — and its political cause is increasingly strained as the remnants of the armed opposition are increasingly co-opted by external actors, state and non-state. Within two weeks of theÃâà...
The Guardian
March 17, 2018
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, communism had its own politics of inevitability: nature permits technology; technology brings social change; social change causes revolution; revolution enacts utopia. When this turned out not to be true, the European and American politicians of inevitabilityÃâà...
Black Star News
March 16, 2018
We want to restore the dignity of the African continent and position Africa as an equal partner in the world economy and international politics. We want Africa to be like Europe. We don't want Europe to treat Africa like it is it's own subject. Africa's time is now. No one should continue with the exploitation of ourÃâà...
The Intercept
March 7, 2018
The Trump administration seems to be crumbling — more people are leaving the administration, some are cooperating with the Mueller probe, and others face criminal indictments. Donald Trump, of course, deflected by tweeting, “There is no chaos, only great energy.” This week on Intercepted, we're takingÃâà...
The Indian Express
March 4, 2018
A new political model is needed that is more responsive to changes being wrought by forces of globalisation, technology, humanity. ... the fusion of physical, digital and biological innovations would be revolutionary and disruptive, comparable to the changes wrought by the first three industrial revolutions.
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
February 21, 2018
So while he didn't get the Democratic presidential nomination and win the presidency, Sanders, 76, believes he and the people who answered his call for political revolution have changed the course of the party. “We ended up writing the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party,” saidÃâà...
Florida Politics (blog)
December 31, 1999
“If you listen real close, you can hear the people in power shaking … inaction is no longer safe. We say 'no more'! We're going to make this the voting issue … every election, every state, every city,” Hogg said. “When people try to suppress your vote … when politicians say your voice doesn't matter becauseÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
December 31, 1999
The four men soon emerged as the chief proponents of Austro-Marxism, a school of socialist politics that tried to marry revolutionary aims to reform-minded practice. Owing to their role in one of Europe's largest socialist parties — and Hilferding's leadership in the preeminent socialist party, the German SPDÃâà...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
Addressing a crowd of tens of thousands the teenager said "Politicians, either represent the people or get out". "The people demand a law banning the sale of assault weapons, the people demand we prohibit the sale of high capacity magazines, the people demand universal background checks". "Stand forÃâà...
