Athens is known as the birthplace of democracy, but even there democracy has been lost and redeemed. Here we track the struggles of Athens right from the beginning.
to vote act and protect u.s. democracy and elections and voting rights. but conservative senate democrats manchin and kyrsten sinema this week made it clear making nice with their republican colleagues is more important than the right to vote or free and fair elections. meanwhile donald trump, busy endorsing gop elections officials, in suing states, he says the quiet part out loud as usual. sometimes the vote counter is more important than the candidate and we can t let that ever, ever happen again. they have to get tougher and smarter. they re not even hiding it. look, it s exhausting. i m exhausted. in a rather remarkable intervention one preeminent canadian political scientist now says it is time for our neighbors to the north to start making plans for the end of the american democratic experiment. quote, by 2025, american democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability including widespread civil violence.
i m exhausted. in a rather remarkable intervention one preeminent canadian political scientist now says it is time for our neighbors to the north to start making plans for the end of the american democratic experiment. quote, by 2025, american democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability including widespread civil violence. by 2030 if not sooner the country could be governed by a right wing dictatorship. author thomas homer dixon says i m a scholar of violent conflict for more than 40 years. i ve studied and published on the causes of war, social breakdown, revolution, ethnic violence and genocide. today as i watch the unfolding crisis in the united states i see a political and social landscape flashing with warning signals. so i ask you, exactly how many sirens and red lights flashing is it going to take to wake this country up? who better to ask than thomas homer dixon himself, the author
The ACRPS and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published Issue 9 (December 2021/ January 2022) of its peer-reviewed journal AlMuntaqa, dedicated to Humanities and Social Sciences, and published in English
very serious challenges as this year, 2021, comes to an end. we are looking at the very fabric of the american democratic experiment becoming more threatened and more at risk than we ve seen in most of our lifetimes. the moves that we re seeing in georgia, in texas, north carolina, and ohio, where state legislators are actually openly engaging in moves to nullify voters and to gerrymander people that will not be represented by people of their own community and their own preference. we re seeing all kinds of impediments put up. we re facing, again, another wave of a variant that threatened our health with covid-19. and people resisting what needs to be done.