Usando como fundamento la doctrina de jurisdicción universal, el juez español Baltasar Garzón ha conducido investigaciones en los tribunales españoles de casos de tortura, crímenes de guerra y otros delitos cometidos en todo el mundo. El año pasado fue acusado de excederse en su autoridad al poner en marcha una ... Leer más
Human rights abuses from the leadership federal and the state of Guerrero.The house of the workers of human rights were vandalizedFueron amenazados de muerte los trabajadores de derechos humanos.Zeferino Torreblanca is responsabe: http://www.suracapulco.com.mx/nota1.php?id_nota=55583 (VIOLACION DERECHOS HUMANOS EN GUERRERO MEXICO,VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN GUERRERO MEXICO),http://www.suracapulco.com.mx/nota1.php?id_nota=55584
Una buena cosa que El Mercurio informe de la pesadilla que vive el Tibet: Mientras China intensifica la represión sobre los tibetanos, los seguidores del Dalai Lama resisten, como lo hacen desde hace 58 años. aquí, un periodista del the New York Times se sumerge en el largo conflicto, mientras ... Leer más
One of our tasks at the Internet and Democracy Project is to develop an intellectual framework which will aid us in studying the effect of the Internet on democracy. We are beginning by doing a lot of background research on the scholarship of democracy: Juan Linz, Seymour Martin Lipset, Terry ... Leer más
Moroccan democracy is a cause that is near and dear to my heart. I spent the academic year of 2004-2005 in Rabat as a Fulbright scholar studying democratization. Pretty early on, I realized that Moroccan democratization was a fraud, but I was really inspired by the passionate work of Moroccan ... Leer más
Today was my first day of class at the Kennedy School and, not surprisingly, one of my readings for tomorrow has inspired me. (Part of the reasons I was looking forward to starting grad school was to have more blogging fodder.)For my class in comparative politics, I was assigned a ... Leer más
Note: The idea of semiotic democracy - the collaborative public definition of cultural signs (semeîon in Greek) - is gaining popularity, particularly as it applies the the Internet. Here's a passage on semiotic democracy from my case study on the citizen journalism web site OhmyNews. Please feel free to correct ... Leer más
Note: In June I was hired by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society to write a case study about the effect that the Korean citizen journalism site OhmyNews has had on democracy in that country. I finished the first draft of the report last week. This is the executive ... Leer más
Most of the Internet is like a village square where the rich come to sell you something and the powerful come to remind you who is boss. The rich don't expect you to interact with them and they don't want you to interact with them unless it will somehow encourage ... Leer más