Santiago Mitre poses with the Golden Globe award for Best Picture – Non-English Language for … [+] “Argentina, 1985” on January 10, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by...
Tag: Democracy
Bitcoin ‘fixes democracy’ and fights corruption: Human Rights Foundation
Bitcoin fixes broken democracies and fights government corruption by limiting its power to control its people, argues Bitcoin advocate and chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, Alex G...
Defending Democracy And Liberty In The Face Of China’s Challenge
In today’s Xinjiang, the Uighur minority is straitjacketed by surveillance and mass detentions. … [+] (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty I...
Biden Denounces ‘Assault On Democracy’ In Brazil As More Than 400 Arrested Following Jan 6-Style Attack
Topline Supporters of former far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the country’s capital building in Brasilia on Sunday, a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated...
Leon Blum’s Progressive Brand Of Democracy May Rebound In 2023
Former politician Léon Blum (1872 – 1950) visits British politician Winston Churchill at Westerham … [+] in Kent, UK, circa 1947. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Imag...
Ukraine’s Fight For Democracy Is Worth The Short-Term Spike In Energy Prices
A Ukrainian soldier looks at flames after throwing a cocktail Molotovs during a self-defence … [+] civilian course on the outskirts of Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. – The Russia...
How much bitcoin does El Salvador have? Good luck getting an answer.
El Salvador is apparently buying a bitcoin a day. But we may never know if that’s true. In fact, since making the cryptocurrency legal tender last year, the country has failed to officially decl...
Here’s What Lies Ahead For Ukraine’s “Teenage Democracy”
KYIV, UKRAINE – 2022/11/11: People hold a banner that says “Kherson is Ukraine” celebrating the … [+] liberation of Kherson from Russian occupiers in central Kyiv. Ukrainian ar...
Elon Musk’s New Tool To Shape Public Opinion
Like media moguls before him, the world’s wealthiest person now owns a personal mouthpiece with Twitter. It may prove more potent at influencing public opinion than traditional news outlets. As long a...
Elon Musk Loves Karl Marx—Here’s Why
Elon Musk, the richest capitalist ever to walk the earth, just took a page out of Karl Marx’s playbook. Karl Marx? Wasn’t he the creator of communism and one of the world’s greatest anti-capitalists? ...
Election Denial Harms U.S. Status As ‘Role Model’ For Democracy
Topline Vice President Kamala Harris argued Sunday that baseless claims about the integrity of the 2020 election could undermine whether the United States is viewed as a “role model” for democracy, ma...
Biden’s Whole-Of-Government Interventionism Does Not Reflect The Soul Of The Nation
In addressing real and imagined Threats to Democracy,TM there are perhaps choices other than Ultra-MAGA and Biden’s Ultra-spendy pillage people. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre almost dail...
Democratic Degradation Is Law’s Ultimate Disruptor
Concept: Threat of Democracy. Inflatable pink balloon and a needle in hand getty The legal industry has been remarkably buoyant in a tumultuous world. It has weathered 9/11, the global financial crisi...
Pelosi Says U.S. Is Determined To ‘Preserve Democracy’ As She Meets Taiwanese President
Topline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday met Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and several representatives from the country’s parliament, as part of a high-profile visit that has angered China w...
Former Defense Secretary Says Donald Trump’s Behavior On January 6 ‘Threatens Our Democracy’
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 01: Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump … [+] listens during the daily White House coronavirus press briefing April 1, 2020 in Wash...
The Energy Transition Cannot Be Won By Hypocrites
On April 4, 2022, UN Secretary-General António Guterres introduced the latest IPCC report in a damning video message. In his words, “This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a l...
‘Our democracy will better evolve because of DAOs,’ says Animoca’s Yat Siu
The rise of Web3 has paved the way for new business models that could shape the next phase of the internet. For instance, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) will play a large part in the open metaverse as the ...
What Would The Future Of Finance Look Like With Crypto Assets Exhibiting Liquid Democracy ?
In today’s world, power can be seen historically shift from governments to people. In the emerging world of Web3, everyone will be taking part in collective decision-making through liquid democracy po...
After 20 Years Of Putin, An Irked Biden Anticipates A New Russian Leader
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. ASSOCIATED PRESS Western security is entwined with the fate of one man, Vladimir Putin. Over his twenty y...
Myanmar Democracy Group Look to Tether After Failure of Myanmar Dollar Project
As the military seized control of the issuance of currency in Myanmar in 2021, the citizens responded by taking to the stablecoin Tether for peer-to-peer transactions and cross-border remittances. A r...