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Global
Politics
As the Presidential elections
in the United States approach, it is
evident that our choices will
also affect many who live elsewhere.
In Countries around the
World, Politics are not nearly as safe as
they are here, with
Global Candidates dying for the rights that
Americans take for granted
while suffering
little more discomfort
than the monotonous daily barrage of
political advertising.
We in America have had the
privilege, indeed the
guaranteed right, to choose our leaders
for hundreds of years.
But are we the voters, really
still who is choosing this nations next leaders?
Or are they now being chosen for us by
clusters of powerful special interest
groups and lobbyists
representing the drug, insurance and fuel industries,
whose long grasping
fingers are wrapped tightly around many politicians.
The present race for the White
House leaves this conclusion uncertain.
Sadly, if Abraham Lincoln were
a candidate running today,
he would probably not be
elected President.
He would more than likely have
been considered a risky choice
as he was not especially
attractive, nor Ivy League educated,
extremely wealthy, or willing to do nearly anything to get elected,
in direct opposition to
most of the current group of candidates
participating in this political
process known as Democracy.
As we listen and watch, thinking
that because of the non stop,
global Press coverage of every
single political detail,
we know exactly who these
candidates pursuing
the position of President of the United States
are,
we might ask just one more
question of ourselves,
"Who might Abraham Lincoln
endorse for President today?"
The following are a few
mostly unbiased resources for Global Politics:
Overseeing elections in the
Global Community since 1989
The Carter Center
Televised Legislatures and
their web sites
C-Span: Legislatures Around the World
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
sponsors this online magazine
dedicated to
Global Politics and Economics.
Foreign Policy
Advancing Global political and
economic freedom
Freedom House
The Encyclopedia of the Earth
Global Politics and Institutions
A web log of online Global
Politics
Global Politics Online
"Working for Democracy and
making it work"
The National Democratic Institute
"Supporting freedom around the
World"
The National Endowment for Democracy
Free thinking for the World
Open Democracy
Dedicated to promoting Global
Democracy and Human Rights
UN Democracy Caucus

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