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No, the Liberal Party does not have a history of upholding the right to protest in Australia - just look back to the Vietnam War

More than a year after the eruption of conflict between Hamas and Israel, the escalating war in the Middle East is roiling Australian society and politics.

The Conversation

Former President Trump Suggests Using Military Against 'Enemy From Within'

Former President Trump's controversial remarks on using military against 'radical left lunatics' raise concerns about democracy in the US.

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US elections: here’s what’s at stake for Europe, in 3 key areas

Many pundits are claiming that the 2024 contest will be the most important US election since 1860. Most Europeans would also agree. At stake is not just the future of democracy in America, but arguably the future of the post-World War II international order.

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How did a ‘bank snooping’ scandal ensnare politicians in Italy?

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says her opponents want to derail democracy – but is that true?

Al Jazeera

No country still uses an electoral college − except the US

The United States is the only democracy in the world where a presidential candidate can get the most popular votes and still lose the election. Thanks to the Electoral College, that has happened five times in the country’s history. The most recent examples are from 2000, when Al Gore won…

The Conversation

Where do Harris and Trump stand on the key election issues?

From abortion to the economy, the Democrat and Republican have widely diverging visions for the country

The Guardian - US

The age factor election

"The president can essentially be fired by the vice president should he become significantly impaired"

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"Citizen Nation": Hope for democracy

The four-part PBS series depicts students from across the country studying the constitution for a contest, and life

Salon

The origins of Trump's "genes" obsession

Trump’s racial purity project echoes our nation’s eugenical past

Salon

Tunisia’s young democracy flounders as its president wins a second term

There was tension hanging in the air as I walked through Tunisia’s capital city, Tunis, in July, just months before the country’s latest presidential election. The conversations I had in cafes and markets confirmed people’s uncertainty and apprehension about the state of their country.

The Conversation

Outrage fatigue takes its toll on MAGA

Experts on what the "toxicity of Trump’s pathological lying" hides

Salon

Vice President Kamala Harris Emphasizes Stakes In Election

Vice President Kamala Harris addresses voter concerns, praises Biden, criticizes Trump, and emphasizes the importance of upholding democracy in a Univision...

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Why are Democrats tarred as elites when the world’s richest man funds Trump?

We’re living in a second Gilded Age of extreme inequality. Kamala Harris’s campaign should strike a more populist note

The Guardian - US

Never Trump's revenge arrives on time

Anti-Trump Republicans Rick Wilson and Cheri Jacobus on why prominent Republicans are finally breaking away now

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Can India’s version of The Onion beat hate with laughter?

Kerala-based humanities student, who prefers to remain anonymous, runs The Savala Vada, a satirical Instagram handle.

Al Jazeera

Taiwan’s President Lai says will ‘resist annexation or encroachment’

In his first National Day speech, new president stresses ‘thriving’ democracy of island claimed by Beijing.

International Business Times

Deaths And Repression Sideline Suu Kyi's Party Ahead Of Myanmar Vote

Death, detention and dissolution have decimated Aung San Suu Kyi's political party, easing the way for groups backed by Myanmar's ruling military to claim victory at elections expected next year, analysts say.

The Conversation

Clare Wright’s history of the Bark Petitions is a work of intimate storytelling, written with ‘charismatic authority’

Clare Wright’s Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions – subtitled “how the people of Yirrkala changed the course of Australian democracy” – tells a story that is already well known.

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Cambodia: journalist arrest signals false dawn for democracy as the country slides into authoritarianism

Mech Dara, an award-winning Cambodian journalist and one of the kingdom’s last remaining independent media voices, was arrested on Monday, September 30. He has been detained over a social media post for “incitement to disturb social security”, and faces up to two years in jail.

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Pro-Palestine Advocacy Groups Slam NSW Premier’s Calls To Block Protests Due To Costs

The premier’s comments show “a troubling disregard for fundamental rights and democracy,” advocates say.

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Helldivers 2 Major Order threatens players with a delay: you took Claorell and the bots didn't like that, so defend it for 3 days or your space station gets pushed back

The Democracy Space Station "will be delayed" if this Major Order fails

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2 players are one step closer to getting their massive Democracy Space Station, but the constant Automaton battles are proving to be a bit much: "I need a break from bots"

Helldivers are in desperate need of a bug-shaped break

Salon

Blinded by Trump's violent fantasies

"Trump’s apocalyptic language," social theorist Henry Giroux argues, "must be seen as a warning"

International Business Times

Tunisia's President Saied Set For Landslide Election Win

President Kais Saied was poised Monday to win Tunisia's election by a huge margin, though low voter turnout reflected widespread discontent in the cradle of the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings.

The Guardian - UK

Democracy campaigners criticise President Saied as polls close in Tunisia

Leader of north African country expected to win second term after jailing opponents and changing constitution

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