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• About Democracy - Details how "the essence of Democracy" the way Greeks from antiquity meant it and lived it is the exact opposite of our so-called "democracies" of today.
• Center for Range Voting - Reform advocacy and educational organization.
• Chomsky - Official Noam Chomsky website. Resource site including books, articles, interviews, talks, debates, plus writings about Chomsky.
• CounterPunch - Bi-weekly muckraking political newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Covers stories that the corporate press never prints. Has radical attitude with irreverent and biting approach.
• Daily Kos - Daily weblog with political analysis on US current events from a liberal perspective.
• Democracy 2.0 - Site advocating direct democracy and principles at local and state levels of government in the United States. Links to supporting historical and current documents. Also includes a discussion board.
• Digital Speech Project - Urges people to get active in fighting for their electronic freedom.
• Disinformation - Disinformation is a search service for those seeking factual information on current affairs, politics and new science media stories. Features censored and 'hidden information' which has been mis-represented by corporate-owned media conglomerates.
• EFF - The Electronic Frontier Foundation - Seek to protect the rights of computer users.
• Election Methods Website - Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet methods.
• Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 - Track the electoral vote with a red/blue map of the US, updated daily using the latest state polls.
• Electorama - Home of the Election-methods mailing list. Discussion of single-winner election reform, the relative merits of different proportional representation systems, and the technical underpinnings of all election methods.
• FOREVER MINUS A DAY? SOME THEORY AND EMPIRICS OF OPTIMAL COPYRIGHT - [PDF]
• Friedman, David D. - Well-known anarcho-capitalist thinker and economist, author of "The Machinery of Freedom." Books, courses, and drafts.
• Greater Democracy - Explores the roots, goals, and intentions of democratic governance in the United States. Looks critically at the governance structures and models currently operating in the U.S., considering what might work much better, especially in the interest of facilitating more and better citizen participation. Considers how communications technologies support democracy. Use technology to lower the cost of campaigning.
• Howard Dean - Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is a Democratic politician who served as Governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003. Dean's presidential campaign was remarkable at the time for its extensive use of the Internet to reach out to its supporters. The candidate and his staff frequently "blogged" while on the campaign trail and even delegated important campaign-related decisions to the outcomes of polls conducted on his website.
• Instruments of Statecraft - Study of U.S. guerilla warfare, counter insurgency, and counter terrorism, from 1940 to 1990.
• IP action - A nonpartisan PAC dedicated to preserving individual freedom through balanced intellectual property policy. Technological innovation and individual creativity are vital to the future of this country. A prosperous and democratic society depends on freedom for all individuals to pursue scientific invention and artistic expression. Unfortunately, new intellectual property laws threaten to stifle these freedoms and restrict public participation in science, art, and political discourse.
• The League for Programming Freedom - Software patents and user interface copyrights harm programmers, and this organization is dedicated to stopping it.
• Libertarian Party - Committed to America's heritage of freedom: individual liberty and personal responsibility; a free-market economy of abundance and prosperity; a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace, and free trade.
• Michael Badnarik / Richard Campagna - Includes biography, position statements, endorsements and other topics on the official 2004 Libertarian Party nominees for President and Vice-President.
• No Software Patents - Speak out clearly on what is wrong with software patents, and which structural deficiencies the patent system needs to work on before it can even think of expanding into any new areas.
• Open Secrets - Presenting political news, and the actual political positions of the parties and candidates, as well as disclosing how much campaign money they have raised and where it came from.
• OPTIMAL COPYRIGHT OVER TIME: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND THE STOCK OF WORKS - [PDF]
• Palast, Greg - Writings of a progressive investigative journalist. Includes schedule of appearances and biography.
• Peroutka 2004: Michael Anthony Peroutka - Constitution Party candidate. Offers audio and video files for download, views on issues, campaign themes, personal weblog, and media kit.
• The Political Compass - Chart your course through the political quagmire.
• Project Vote Smart - Extensive nonpartisan information on elected officials' voting records and candidates' positions. Covers federal and state offices throughout the United States.
• Publicus - Steven Clift offers articles, commentaries, presentations, and mailing lists concerning campaign, elections, and the future of electronic democracy.
• Reason - A libertarian magazine covering politics, culture, and ideas through a mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews.
• Reclaim Democracy - Non-profit organization with information and tools for action on corporate accountability, revitalizing democracy, political reform, and defending civil rights.
• Six Degrees of Voting - Registration drive concept.
• Slashdot Politics
• Space Politics - A blog covering the politics and laws concerning space travel and vehicles, because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway.
• Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International - Zero Tolerance for Torture. TASSC International is a coalition of torture survivors, currently representing more than 60 countries and ethnic groups. Working towards the abolition of torture and ill treatment currently practiced by more than 150 governments. Established in 1998, on the guiding principles that torture is a crime against humanity and that survivors are the strongest and most effective voice in the campaign to end the practice of torture.
• Urban Legends Reference: Politics - Urban legends about politics.
• Voting System Simulations - Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful
• Wikipedia - Democracy - A form of government under which the power to alter the basic laws and forms of government lies with the voting citizenry. All decisions are made by representatives who act by their consent, as enforced by elections and the rule of law.
• wikipedia - Democratic Party - The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. Its origins lie in the original Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1793. After the disintegration of the Federalist party, the Republicans were the only major party in American politics. The presidency of Andrew Jackson, however, destroyed the unity of the party.
• Wikipedia - George W. Bush - Open-source encyclopedia article provides personal, business and political information about the President, his policies, and public perceptions and assessment. Includes links to transcripts and official sites.
• Wikipedia - John Kerry - John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. On July 29, 2004 he became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee for the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
• Wikipedia - Michael Badnarik - Encyclopedia entry for the Libertarian Party nominee for President includes a personal and political profile with links to related topics.
• Wikipedia - MoveOn - MoveOn.org is a liberal political group based in the United States that organizes and informs an online community estimated at more than two million people. The group aims to promote grassroots advocacy by its members through various political activities including running a PAC, voter registration drives, and political advertising (especially in swing states).
• Wikipedia - Noam Chomsky - Dr. Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an Institute Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His works in generative linguistics contributed significantly to the decline of behaviorism and led to the advancement of the cognitive sciences. Outside of his linguistic work, Chomsky is also widely known for his radical left-wing political views, and his criticism of the foreign policy of United States governments. Chomsky describes himself as a libertarian socialist and a supporter of anarcho-syndicalism.
• Wikipedia - Politics - Politics is the process and conduct of decision-making for groups. Although it is usually applied to governments, political behavior is also observed in corporate, academic, religious, and other institutions.
• Wikipedia - Republican Party - The Republican Party (often GOP for Grand Old Party) is one of the two major political parties in the United States. The party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the westward expansion of slavery. It is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay.

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