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Tuesday, 09 February, 2010, 15:26 GMT
Democracy
| Police withdraws partial ban on demonstration against Bush
13-06-2008 The Metropolitan Police have withdrawn a ban preventing demonstrators from assembling in Parliament Square. However, the ban still stands on Whitehall and the Horse Guard’s Avenue during President George Bush’s visit to the UK this weekend. |
| Are Western democracies really democratic?
12-05-2006 The public in Spain, Italy, the United States, as well as in many other European countries, stood firmly against the war. Yet their "democratically elected" governments went to war.
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| What Really Happened
01-02-2006 As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight. |
| Is democracy empowering Islamists?
27-01-2006 Palestinian voters availed themselves of the time- honored democratic right to "throw the bums out" in their first legislative elections in a decade Wednesday - exactly the kind of action implicit in President Bush's push for democracy in the Middle East.
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| Nigeria hits back at US warning
23-12-2005 Nigeria's government has told the United States to mind its own business over speculation that the president may stand for a third term. |
| USA: Police infiltrate protests, videotape show
22-12-2005 Undercover New York City police officers have conducted covert surveillance in the last 16 months of people protesting the Iraq war, bicycle riders taking part in mass rallies and even mourners at a street vigil for a cyclist killed in an accident, a series of videotapes show. |
| UK drops to 51st in world table of women MPs
16-11-2005 Britain has fallen out of the international top 50 for women's political representation, with its proportion of female MPs ranking well below those of Mozambique, Iraq, Mexico, and Tunisia. |
| Rice makes forceful case for democracy in Mideast
21-06-2005 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a forceful case for democracy in the Middle East, telling Egypt's government leaders "the fear of free choices can no longer justify the denial of liberty." |
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