Third Superpower

bq. It’s not obvious, however, that the form of grassroots organizing and action celebrated by Ito and Moore will gain traction in the developing world. In many developed nations, especially the United States, the greatest enemy of activism is apathy. Grassroots activism may turn out to be a powerful weapon to fight apathy and encourage [...]

One important thing I missed last year was the invention of the term transnational progressivism. I found out about it reading an old “entry(Transnational progressivism)”:http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/08/Transnationalprogressivis.shtml of Steven Den Beste where he cites an essay by John Fonte, “The Ideological War Within the West(The Ideological War Within the West)”:http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2002_04-06/fonte_ideological/fonte_ideological.html. It reminds me of the same second [...]

bq. The most interesting reaction to all this comes from people who live in societies that have recently thrown off authoritarian regimes or still live without much political freedom. “Americans seem very cavalier about politics,” one Middle Eastern journalist told me. “Perhaps if they lived without free speech for a few years they would use [...]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg “says(Ginsburg: Int’l Law Shaped Court Rulings)”:http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/6445859.htm that when the Supreme Court looks to courts in other countries for clues on how to decide cases that it is a good thing. I think it is an extremely dangerous concept. The American Legal System is based primarily on “English Common Law(Common law)”:http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law (with a [...]

bq. The protesters looted gas stations, pharmacies and other shops, leaving downtown Geneva in a state of chaos. Only a handful of stores were left intact — mainly those which had anti-G-8 or anti-war banners in their windows. Even the bulletproof windows of big banks were smashed. – “Terence Hunt(World leaders tackle AIDS, hunger)”:http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=67161 bq. [...]